Sidebar: Other Campus Concierges
The Campus Concierge is a unique feature of High Point University that helps students with many of the difficult aspects of the college experience.
About the Concierge
High Point University prides itself on being there for it's students. In July of 2007, the University enacted a new service to help students known as the Campus Concierge.
President Nido Quebein felt that by having this concierge service, it would help students focus more on school by relieving them of the everyday hassles and stress that being a college student can produce.
The concierge has many aspects that are very helpful to students in many ways.
Features of the Concierge
The Campus Concierge offers more features to students than one may think.
Leslie Smith, who has worked at the concierge since it started in July, 2007, listed off the different things that the service has to offer.
The first of the services is known as Kendall rentals. The Kendall is a type of computer that allows students to download entire books to the computer off the Internet. The Concierge also offers dry cleaning services, wake up calls and daily weather updates.
The Concierge also sends daily emails to inform students of upcoming sports events, fundraisers and other school related activities. The Concierge not only lets the students know of upcoming activities, but distributes tickets to the events as well.
Transportation can also be arranged for students traveling home for breaks through the Concierge. By working with the schools shuttles, trips to airports within the area are easily arranged. Plus, no one can forget the fact that on each students birthday a card and balloons are delivered to the students residence.
The Students Reactions
"I can't explain how valuable the wake up service is", says Junior Cormac Abate. "Without it I would have missed my 8:00 A.M class too many times."
Sophomore Stephan Crim says, "I like the fact that they send you daily emails. It helps keep me informed about whats going on around campus."
The Campus Concierge service is extremely beneficial to the student here at HPU. It offers a stress free way to take care of many students to do lists. In the end, it is just another example of how High Point is going above a beyond to help students be successful in college.
Other Campus Concierges
High Point University is not alone in offering students this Concierge Service. A service known as Precious Time has recently been started at Syracuse University. The service has the same basic idea as the Concierge service here at High Point. Precious Time is a completely student run company that offers students pick up and delivery of food and school supplies and can also help students find cleaning services, taxi services and computer repair services. The fact is that with college students lives being so busy, the idea of a Concierge service is brilliant. Within the next few years, I would not be surprised to see more Universities across the nation take to this concierge service due to all the benefits that come along with it.
Some Schools with the Concierge Service
-High Point University
-University of Hartford
-Pacific Luthern University
-Westminster College
-University of Vermont
-Syracuse University
For more information about the campus concierge you can visit http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/the-campus-concierge-a-peace-of-mind-away-from-home-61203.php or http://www.highpoint.edu/concierge/
1 comment:
Eddie,
you have some good links and quotes. I found the video to be too slow and missing any audio though.
I also wanted to question the newsworthiness of the topic. How do you answer the "so what?" question in this story. In other words, why do you think is this story newsworthy at this point?
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