Campus life has not gotten the attention of students this semester

Despite efforts by the school to promote campus events, the activities put on by clubs often experience low attendance rates from students.

Long Beach City Colleges communications department is responsible for advertising events to students based on faculty and staff request.

The activities and events planned by school clubs are promoted through NordicSync.

Associate Director of Public Relations and Marketing Stacey Toda believes that communication between the school and students is important.

“We don’t work with students directly … What we are in charge of is to make sure our students are aware of what’s happening around campus. It is so important for my area to make sure that students are well informed,” Toda said.

When dealing with club events that go unattended, Toda reiterated how the public relations and marketing department helps promote the events and it’s up to the students on whether they want to attend or not.

School clubs often experience events that go unattended or have low attendance rates.

Order of Tong International Vice President Albert Rael, doesn’t believe that the school notifies students well about club events which result in low attendance rates.

“Effectively isn’t the best word I would use for it because I know there has been retraction so to speak because I know one of the main ways they do go about inviting clubs out and students is through their Viking NordicSync. They are really working on it but it is not where it should be,” Rael said.

According to Rael, the club plans about 15 events during the semester and some of those events have gone unattended.  

“Those (club events) are diverse, meaning we do fundraisers, we do volunteer events, we do club outreach, we do recruitment events, we do social bonding events. It can vary,” Rael said.

ASB representative of English as a Second Language (ESL) Kindyl Tisey believes that the communication between the school and students about campus events such as club activities can improve.

“My honest opinion, I would probably rate it like a five out of ten because there is a disconnect between some of the students. Some students just come to come to school and others wanna have a social life. There is not as much effort as I would like to see but we (ASB) definitely do try,” Tisey said.

Tisey explained that it would be better to have more events students are interested in rather than club sponsored events.

LBCC student Gabriel Sheriff agrees that the club events promoted just aren’t appealing.

“With school and two jobs I’m pretty busy, but most of the time they (events) don’t sound appealing to me,” Sheriff said.

Sheriff also suggested that the school should have more events that have more of student interaction to it rather than it just be club sponsored activities.  

According to feminist club president Sasha Ramirez, the school notifies students of events efficiently, however, their methods could improve.

“People are only aware of NordicSync if they are in clubs. I mean fliers are the really only other way, you can’t reach out to the whole entire school you know unless they sent like a mass email about club events. There could always be improvements but it’s not like its terrible,” Ramirez said.

Current students can receive a brief summary of upcoming activities on campus through Student in the Loop, a new email newsletter sent out every Monday while club events are only promoted on NordicSync.