NU 12 by Cebpac MBAH - What pisses you off at the school?

NU 11 - What pisses me off at the school?
      .                  By: CEBPAC

Having class session in the morning and one in the afternoon will surely drift me  off to sleep.  Coffee is needed to perk me up or to make me alert.  At AGSB, one can procure a cup of coffee from the canteen located at the ground floor or from a vending machine at the  3rd floor. Class sessions for MBAH are at the 2nd floor and you have to go to these floors to get a cup of coffee.

It pisses me off when I have to go to these floors to get a cup of coffee and sometimes you cant avoid-spilling the liquid while walking back to the classroom. It's not only coffee that the students need during class but water, juice or sodas are also in demand.

What must be done at the school?
A vending machine in each floor will be provided for coffee for easy accessibility for students.  Another vending machine for water, juices, sodas, chips is another suggestion so that students can have choices. AGSB has provided vending machine in every rest room with tissue, sanitary napkins, etc, , why can't they provide other vending machines for food stuffs in each floor?


NU 10 -WHAT PISSES ME OFF IN MY OFFICE? WHAT MUST BE DONE?
                                  By : CEBPAC
I'm very particular with cleanliness in my office and even at home.  I have a white tile flooring in my office and any dirt can easily be seen.  What pisses me off  is to see strands of hair in the floor. Simple sweeping can't  clean this up and it needs picking it.  It's a strenuous work and time consuming picking up hairs  from the floor.

What I'm thinking to do is to develop a stick with sticking pad in one end.  The janitor will just walk around holding the stick and upon seeing those hairs, will just touch  it with sticked pad.  It will surely make the cleaning so easy and will make the office hair free.

NU12 - What pisses me off at the School by Piper Princess

WHAT I PISSES ME OFF AT THE SCHOOL It is very hard to give a negative comment to a school which has been and still is a part of my weekly responsibility. APS to the common Filipino is perceived to be an elitist school. Students normally come from the top schools of the land and usually come from the cream of the crop. However, if one has been immersed in the curriculum, being an elitist is a personal decision. Another thing that I hate is the tuition fee is quite steep, especially if one comes from an average income family. I only hope that the tuition fee will be more affordable, most especially to all so as to give more opportunities to the average income earner. I hate Ateneo because it is quite far from our house. At least, I am just obligated to go there once a week. Knowing that traffic is such a common sight, it would have been better if it was closer to my house. Maybe, having school at home via video conferencing/teleconference is very much open.  However, I have classmates living in farther provinces, riding the airplane just to go to Manila. This just shows how dedicated and sincere students are in this progressive school. TRAFFIC IN EDSA Honk, honk…… weeee…… screech…… Boooogggg….  Beep beep….. These are sounds that we usually hear along the streets of EDSA. It is such an effort to drive along EDSA most especially during peak hours of traffic and even during rainy days. The buses and taxis moving left and right warrants that drivers be good at defensive driving. I remember in the 70s and early 80s, driving to Makati will take me only 15 minutes from Mandaluyong. Though buses abound, I only see the Love Bus signs along the streets. Traffic was tolerable and crusing at 60-80 mph was not an effort even during peak hours. I remember my father bringing me to UP at 40mph was no problem and I will be the one embarrassed since we were driving quite slowly then. Now, things are more different. The streets are more congested even during wee hours and more so during peak hours. Driving at 60-80mph is already magical and mind boggling and thrilling..... Why so? More cars? More populated urban area? Roads not well maintained? Drivers not tolerant and sensitive to cars nearby. Is it population that is causing this or is it the attitude of drivers. Maybe, even population control and control of acquisition of new cars can help resolve the issue of traffic congestion or car pooling. Maybe, planning of construction of roads and repair can be done. I do hope that the traffic in EDSA will be resolved one of these days… Everyone will be happy. PIPER PRINCESS 3

NU12 by Kristin Raval - What pisses you off at the School

What pisses you off at AGSB? What must be done?

I have been in AGSB for the past 2 years and I have come to appreciate all the benefits and learnings that I have acquired from studying in the school. It has (almost) always been a pleasant experience whenever I am at school – except for some that I have been exasperating since.

One of them would be the lost ID charges – my question is, how did the school even come up with the Php200 fee? What comes with it? Is it the price of getting students (or even professors) hassled nowadays? Perhaps the school needs to re-think this policy because I think this is unfair to all of us concerned. Come to think of it, how the student gets to be legitimately allowed within the school premises is just too funny – there will be argument (or pleading) between the student and the guard, and then once the student realized s/he doesn't get her/his way, a guard escorts (or flags to other security guards within the school grounds) the student to the cashier and then the student is let go. I mean, it is also hassle for the guards because they have to babysit some forgetful student for the day. What I think the school needs to do first is to do away with this forgotten or lost ID fee so all parties concerned will not be hassled anymore. How about the school has a centralized database (or even just a list of enrolled students for the term) which the guards can access from their post so that when one student forgets his/her ID, the guard just verifies through the database that s/he indeed is a student of the school and just lets him/her in. One way of penalizing the student for forgetting his/her ID is to modify the earlier suggestion – the guard has access to the database, then a scanner is placed on all entry points of the school. This scanner shall be the "ticket" of the student to enter the school and can also double up as an attendance monitoring system. If a student forgets his/her ID for the day, s/he will be marked absent in class without any chance to appeal.

Another thing that somehow annoys me is that there are very few choices in the school cafeteria. Albeit the good food offered by the current concessionaire, it is still not enough for the students. The cafeteria is very big for the entire student population so we need more than just Wendy's, Fruitas, Tea Delite, and Pizza Pedericos. There should be a re-layout of the cafeteria wherein 3 or 4 more stalls can be added at the sides. Proposed food choices should be more on the gourmet side, since a lot of people nowadays are health-conscious. Perhaps a salad bar, a dessert stall, and a mini-coffee shop are the minimum "requirements" to vamp up the cafeteria. This way, students will appreciate the cafeteria better and we won't have to cross the street anymore to get to Powerplant just to buy more decent snacks.

One last major thing that I have been hoping that the school realizes is that there is no tissue paper provided for in the toilets and that the hand dryer mechanism doesn't work properly. Sure, the wash rooms are big enough for the school population and that there is a working bidet in each cubicle, but I still don't get it why the school can't even provide a toilet paper. I think it is very basic for a toilet paper to exist in a wash room. I noticed that there are tissue holders in some cubicles, but what is the use of the tissue holder if there's no tissue to hold? There are also tissue and sanitary napkin vendo machines, but most of the time those are empty. The school needs to provide toilet papers in each of the wash room cubicles and make sure that they don't run out of supply. Also, there should be strict monitoring of the vendo supplies so that students don't have to go around asking others if they have sanitary napkins to spare or even tissue paper.

As one of the most prestigious schools in the country, AGSB needs to provide the students with a more hassle-free academic life, a more decent cafeteria, and a working and complete toilet. This way, the school can better protect its brand and give the entire school population a better peace of mind. 4                  This is the nth time this complaint  has been forwarded.  No action.  from a management education institution?

NU 6 by AC, What Pisses Me Off at the School

NU 6 PAPER – WHAT PISSES ME OFF IN THE AGSB

Submission No. 5

ENTREPRENEURSHIP by Mr. Jorge Saguinsin

Submitted by R110083

October 26, 2011

As an alumna of the Ateneo de Manila University, and now a current student in it's graduate school, I am hard put to find anything that pisses me off in the school.  But the discipline of being aware of opportunities has allowed me to find areas of improvement for the school.

·      GATE OR ENTRANCE OPEN FACING ROCKWELL – On my first day of school, I had not yet gotten my basement parking ticket and so parked my car in the basement parking of Rockwell PowerPlant.  Class ended at 10 in the evening and I walked to that entrance facing the mall as it was also my entry point earlier.  To my surprise and consternation, I found that the entrance had already been closed. I was told that the only open entry/exit point at that hour was that one along Bel-Air. And so walked my way over to that side, left the building and walked the dimly lit area to cross the street and get to the PowerPlant Mall which at that hour was also quite deserted and only select entry/exit point were open.  In my opinion, this is a very significant safety and security issue.  Students and teachers and staff are thus exposed to increased risk to life, limb and property. 

I suggest that the school keep that entry/exit point open for the AGSB community who are dismissed at 10pm or let go even after that hour.  After all, a good number who could not find any more parking space in the basement do resort to parking in the mall.  The others who don't are fetched anyway and they too may be fetched from that side of the building. 

·      BREAKDOWN OF FEES – On my first re-enrollment after 16 years, the procedure was a relative breeze compared to how it used to be done.  Kudos to the office of the registrar which had implemented technology and new systems to make this a reality.  However, I was surprised to find that after registration, I was directed straight to the cashier's office to settle payment of the fees.  After presenting the paper, I was informed by the cashier that I owed about PhP50,000 for the 2 subjects I was enrolling in.  I asked for a breakdown and I was informed that there was none available but that the receipt may have the information  I sought.  I was puzzled by this but issued my check anyway.  Upon receiving the check, I was issued a receipt.  But upon close examination, there were very few details on it as to satisfy my curiousity as to the breakdown of the fees I had paid.  I looked up on the cashier's glass window and I found taped on it, a complete breakdown of the College of Law's schedule of tuition and fees.  Why does the College of Law have this and not the Graduate School of Business??? 

How difficult could it be?  Why isn't it made available to the students? I believe transparency is a value that is important in a Jesuit school and it really begs to be asked how the AGSB could not provide the details of the breakdown of its tuition and fees?  By providing this, the school would well serve its stakeholders… particularly its paying students.

·      MORE FOOD CHOICES – The canteen on the 2^nd floor of the AGSB features a concessionaire offering dinner fare and some chips and a selection of drinks.  It also has mini kiosks for Wendy's, Fruit Magic and Pedrito's.  And that's it.  I lament the very limited and often unhealthy choices available in the canteen.

 

There is available prime commercial space on this area that the school can lease to interested parties and thereby offer more food choices for the community.  I, for one, often look for vegetable selections and healthier sandwhich options (more than the burgers and pizza currently available).  Not only will the school provide for such more delectable food choices but also capitalize on leasing income for the yet available space.  After all, affordability is not really an issue for many of the students in the Ateneo Professional Schools.

·      STUDY ROOMS VERSUS MEETING ROOMS – The second floor of the Ateneo Professional Schools features an area where AGSB students may study for their lessons. This is a well-lit, well-ventilated area, with good wifi signals.  It also has square tables that are movable and allow for the students to configure size and shape according to their number or requirement.. (VG)

What I have noticed however is that the acoustics are not friendly to each table group in relation to the other table groups, and may in fact disturb on going classes on that side of the building.  Because many of the school work for AGSB students involve group work, meetings in the area cannot help but be loud, or at least, beyond the tables' invisible perimeters.  May I suggest for the school to provide mini conference rooms to be made available for free use or for rent to its students.  In fact, for certain organizations, this facility may also have potential for additional rental income for the school.

This will solve the needs of students seeking some freedom from disturbance or interference from other student groups, as well as limiting these very same groups' disturbance on others and on classes nearby.  This too will eliminate students' propensity to meet in other venues (a security and safety issue for the school), increase potential revenue for the canteen concessionaire in that more students with freer eating time are in the building. At the same time, make for more efficient use of the space in the building.

·      CALIBER OF TEACHERS – I find that there is a huge area of improvement for the roster of teachers in the AGSB.  The undergraduate school now requires that all teachers must have at least a Master's degree in order to qualify to teach in the college or university.  I think this makes this imperative that teachers in the MBA program must at least have a PhD or a JD or a DBA or its equivalent.  While there is value in the expertise gained from long years of experience and exposure in the field, an academic credential beyond what would eventually become peers in the field seems to be in order because then its teachers would have strong academic proficiency.  This would be in keeping with the school's ideal for excellence and would certainly add to the graduates' distinction. (Prof are being retired at 60.  Our contracts are on a per term/subject basis.  There are Phds and DBA scholarship granted;  I do not know whether it improves quality of teaching)

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