Students under the College of Business Administration (CBA) may be able to decide whether new workspace and furniture will be added to the CBA building via an online survey that will be sent out to students by the first week of October.
The survey will ask CBA students about their opinions on the building’s resources and study area.
Academic Senators Jose Espeleta and Te-Kai Shang are currently finalizing their survey with CBA Dean Michael Solt. They hope to rally students to support change in the CBA.
After the survey results are gathered, Shang and Espeleta will present the issue to the Academic Senate as a “key issue.”
Espeleta said he does not expect ASI to immediately award substantial grants to the CBA. Instead, Espeleta hopes for ASI’s support in searching for furniture donors from retailers or the general Long Beach community.
Shang and Espeleta’s plan for improving the CBA began three weeks ago with the guidance of Sen. George Lam and Jeane Caveness, the assistant dean of students for the office of equity and diversity.
“I kept asking [students], ‘Hey, do you have enough study area? What do you do when you don’t have enough study area?”’ Espeleta said. “We only have the computer lab and two tables outside the building, a couple of benches in the middle, but not enough space for our students to actually get our work done.”
Espeleta said that, with little space at the CBA building to sit, business majors and minors migrate off campus, or to the University Student Union.
According to Espeleta, business students do not socialize with one another as often as students on upper-campus might. He said many never learn of the CBA’s resources through word of mouth, such as the Corporate Mentoring Program.
Ennio Mojica, a business major and sophomore transfer student, said he is fully aware and satisfied with the CBA’s educational recourses. On the other hand, he sees room for physical improvement.
“I wish there were tables right here to read a book,” Mojica said while sitting in the CBA courtyard. “The courtyard should have tables much like the one outside of the University Library.”
Espeleta said he hopes the survey will also raise awareness of the college senators’ influence on campus.
“We represent you, your best interest in student government and try to fix those problems that you have,” Espeleta said.
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