Undergraduate Student Government recently released its own website baruchconnect.com. It provides some insight into the type of information that students are interested in receiving about the college, as well as how they would like it organized and presented. The clubs section links to the public area of a hosted service that we license to manage club finances. A few of the features, such as the reporting of problems to USG, will be incorporated into the iPhone app. At some point the University will send them a “cease and desist” letter for unauthorized use of the College’s name on a .com site, but in the meantime we can learn something about how we should re-design our own site.
FWIW, I looked at the source code and see that they are using WordPress for this site. One thing that I found really appealing about the site was the use of large graphics and bold, sans serif fonts that are cleanly laid out on the pages.