Advice to Baruch College

I think a cool way Baruch College can use new media to communicate with faculty and students would be to have text messages (for those who use text messaging) or blackboard alerts. I think it would be really useful to receive alerts straight to your phone or straight to blackboard about when the college is closed, certain deadlines, and which days follow a "monday" or "friday" schedule. It might be a little hard and complicated for Baruch to figure out a way to send text messages to those who can receive them. But it would be nice to get those alerts on Blackboard. Sometimes people forget to check the online calendar for those important dates, and I think that having alerts would easily help students and faculty remember them.