After researching many different aspects of communication within the Reinhardt community, it is clear that while there are many forms of communication, very few of them can be deemed effective. What is most concerning is the fact that the two most highly touted ways of communications among students and faculty are Facebook and text messaging, ironically neither one of these services is provided or mediated by the college. The college has become saturated with flyers, bulletin boards, and unread newspapers. The computers have become overloaded with emails that are of no concern to most individuals. The barrier lies between identifying who the audience is and what the best way to convey a message would be. Case in point, the death of a student should not take the length of time that it did in order for it to be a campus covered message. A paper that is supposed to cover recent campus news and events took more than an ample amount of time to convey a message. More than likely there isn’t just one simple solution to the breakdown of communication on campus, but the effort and system that is in place right now is clearly not effective.
