RESEARCH AREAS

-CURRENT PROGRAMS First is Baruch already allocating any funds to ease of access between the dorms and main campus?  How much would it cost to have a shuttle bus?  How much would it cost to include metro card (realistically though not asking for unlimited cards if you only technically need to make 3 round trips to campus per week.   Perhaps though there could be a supplement.

-LOGISTICS research logistics and any attending costs for alternative methods*  (you might break this section up and have a couple of folks look at logistics for different alternative methods) questions might include:   How much would it cost to have a shuttle bus (fuel, drivers, parking, insurance)?  How much would it cost to include metro card (realistically though not asking for unlimited cards if you only technically need to make 3 round trips to campus per week.   Perhaps though there could be a supplement to transportation costs.

-SISTER SITUATIONS How come City College has a shuttle?  Could their model work on Lexington Ave.   What does Hunter do?  What is the commuting situation for the students in the dorms who go to other schools other than Baruch?   Better?  Worse?  (You might conduct informal interviews NOTE with no names or identifying information, just opinions about the commute and basic facts about logistics of the commute).

-BARUCH STRATEGIC PLAN addressing the minority status of residential students.   This issue might effect a minority of students but the whole Baruch community should care because ???  Is Baruch trying to increase its residential population?  Does the residential population offer any particular/unique resources to the college that would behoove the college to try and protect and increase by paying attention to this minor demographic’s needs?

*PROPOSED ALTERNATIVES

shuttle bus

metrocard

on campus dormitory commons