HUB YOU

HUB YOU

A Collection of Responses to the HUB

• "It's not easy; they just threw it at us. I can't find anything. It needs to be more organized." – Rosemary Lanza, sophomore occupational therapy major

• "They try to make it more efficient, but end up making it worse. It's probably good for the newer students, but older students who are used to the previous system just find it confusing. A lot of the newer stuff they try to introduce is just plain annoying, like the smaller window for registration, the layout, interface, everything is just made more complicated." – James Ly, senior chemistry major.

• "The only thing that I like is that you have a ‘cart' method for when you register for classes. My biggest personal issue was that when they transferred to the new hub system I lost my AP credits that I received in high school. I recommend everyone who had AP credits to check their transferred credits just in case you may have a situation like mine where they were not given to you cause of the transfer." – Michael Badura, sophomore international business major

• "It's maybe the worst piece of technology at UB. The thing that bothers me most about it is that the systems in place before already worked fairly well. So they tried to fix something that wasn't broken, and now it's broken." – Paul Stephan, junior urban and public policy major

• "As with most new systems, some things aren't really working quite right and there are legitimate problems that we're working to address." – Susan Huston, Director of Administrative Computing Services.

• "[HUB would be better] if there was more explanation. For financial aid, it's confusing because you have to go in and say how much you want and I didn't know anything about that. I liked having the actual paper bill sent home. That was a lot better." – Jessie Allen, senior mechanical engineering major.

• "Last year, you would type in what class you needed and they'd give you like 50 available class schedules. But this year, they've made it really difficult," – Sarah Davidson, sophomore exercise science major.

• "While I think it's a pretty good idea to have student services online in the same place, I cannot help but feel that it's a lot easier to find what I was looking for when it was still on MyUB. People may dismiss it as something that just needs time for adjustment, but the user interface just strikes me as messy in comparison." – April Tan, graduate of the class of 2010

• "I don't like it at all. I feel like there should be more introduction to it before they completely change everything." – Amanda Poon, junior medicinal chemistry major.

• "The idea here is that this system brings together a lot of disparate parts that we had before in a complicated, but integrated, system that students should see much more clearly. With that said, there have been challenges in this process as you would expect." – A. Scott Weber, Vice-Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Education