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This has been my first and only semester in Baruch because I’m an exchange student but so far what I’ve noticed several interesting values in the students overall. First, I would say that they are responsible, when there’s an exam you could notice that everybody studied beforehand and that they are well prepared. Other interesting value is the perseverance that everybody has, it is a long semester and in spite of that you can notice that even at the end of it the people give their best in every class. Most of this values I think that are very related to the fact that this is a public university, therefore the most of the people that study here are not very wealthy so they just want to work hard with hopes of improving their quality of life.

If you think about the core ideology that defines Baruch College, as Collins and Porras say in their article: “it provides the glue that holds an organization throughout time”. For that matter what really defines Baruch College as a whole is its business orientation. If you make a survey in campus asking about why everybody chose this institution, most of the people would tell you because it has a great reputation of being an excellent business school. The point that I’m trying to make is that because of its great focus in the business career you can define Baruch College as an educational institution whose values are strictly related to the ones that define business itself. For example, nowadays the professional that wants to be successful in the business area has to be a very informed person, therefore has to read a lot. That’s one of the reasons you could always see a huge amount of people in the library reading, taking advantage of the vast amount of resources the college has for its students.