1. Undergraduate Student Government Association senators only need the support of 50 students to represent tens of thousands of students.
2. Urban Eatery food sucks. The rice is not cooked. The chicken is a desert. It barely has variety. It has Health Code violations.
3. Urban does not have a lot of nutritious options besides the salad bar which leads to a greasy and unfulfilling diet.
4. Students with credit from Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate are capped in the number of credits they can transfer in, but the same is not true for transfer credits, which discriminates against students whose high schools emphasized AP/IB over dual enrollment.
5. Course credit load is not reflective of the time spent or difficulty of the course.
6. Classes are not offered in the same quarters every year which makes planning ahead difficult.
7. The add/drop period is too short for students to meaningfully assess a course.
8. Orientation overwhelms students with information but lacks long-term resources to follow up or connect students together.
9. Departments list classes that they have stopped offering years ago.
10. The residential halls have too much security. Limiting how many people a student can check in, taking their photos, and holding their ID violates students’ rights as tenants to invite social guests.
11. There is no standard for when research assistants should be included as an author.
12. The Health Sciences Building needlessly restricts most of the university from access, denying some of the best study spaces and the cafe.
13. The LeBow College of Business restricts access to its study spaces and conference rooms. Business students are not the only ones studying after all.
14. There is no school spirit, affecting both the student life experience for current students and alumni engagement into the future.
15. Inflation keeps going up, but student organization funding keeps going down.
16. It is entirely unnecessary for a package to be delivered at a residential hall, be taken down to Shipping and Receiving, and cause a week of delay picking up a package.
17. The Student Conduct process is a kangaroo court that is structured to provide many advantages to the school.
18. The Student Organization Resource Center is understaffed, overly bureaucratic, and takes way too long to approve purchase requests. In some cases, it runs up against crucial deadlines.
19. Student organization leaders are required to attend training sessions that do not teach anything useful or do anything to change the way organizations operate.
20. Science majors have a lot of required classes which makes it difficult to pursue other majors or minors unless those majors or minors have a lot of overlap.
21. Student employees do not get paid enough.
22. We have no football team. Who wants to watch a homecoming basketball game?
23. The school inflates the amount of financial aid it claims to give by posting an artificially high sticker price and then giving everyone a scholarship.
24. Old buildings like Main, Rush, and Disque have terrible ventilation and air conditioning.
25. Hosting on-campus events is difficult and expensive because of the requirement to have a Public Safety officer monitoring the event.
26. A schedule of once every couple hours for the Queen Lane shuttle is too long to be reliable transportation, particularly if traffic delays the shuttle, and it takes a half hour for the Dragon shuttle to come at the transfer station.
27. The law library and certain databases are off-limits to the rest of the university.
28. There are two buildings named after LeBow which can get confusing.
29. Drexel has no agreements with restaurants (except the ones in Northside Dining Terrace) on campus to let students use their meal plans there to add more variety than just Urban.
30. Professors in most departments do not have to teach well to get hired or tenured.
31. Most of the Counseling Center staff, while helpful for low-level issues like learning to live independently, are not well-equipped to handle serious mental pathology.
32. Residential halls have tiny closets and drawers. It is quite a tight squeeze.
33. There is a custom design major program but not a custom design minor.
34. In some classes, students have to pay to do their homework.
35. Drexel minimarts are overpriced.
36. Many of the Dragonlink (despite being Drexel’s main extracurricular hub) pages are outdated with older information and photos.
37. Campus Activities Board tickets are nonrefundable even if they sell out.
38. Some parts of the studios have been broken for months and have still not gotten fixed.
39. Drexel toilet paper is super thin.
40. Emergency blue lights do not exist within walking distance from any Drexel-patrolled location.
41. Drexel EMS has no ambulance.
42. Co-op wage data does not include unpaid co-ops or stipend payments which would more realistically reflect the co-op job market.
43. The One Drexel Plaza basement is a labyrinth that makes getting to class on-time from another class impossible.
44. The Drexel Wi-Fi does not consistently work well for phones.
45. There are not a lot of spots for commuter students to sit down and eat around campus.
46. Primary elections shape the general election, particularly in the giant swing state of Pennsylvania, but the school does not give the primary election day off.
47. The snow is shoveled into the sidewalk, but not every sidewalk is fully cleared for pedestrians.
48. The laboratory equipment in the Department of Chemistry and Physics is ancient to the point that some items have been deprecated.
49. Academic advising quality varies wildly by department.
50. Academic advisors have too much responsibility for students and frequently change due to personnel moves.
51. Departments have not created enough course seats for students to be able to follow their plan of study.
52. Pre-juniors get extra representation in USGA due to some students not following a five year plan and representation being based on class, not graduation year.
53. The Steinbright Center for Career Development does not teach or allow the experiential learning of negotiating pay or working conditions.
54. The user interface for programs like course registration or co-op searches is very antiquated, void of features or color, and presents a stark contrast to the DrexelOne website.
55. Some classrooms and study rooms lack enough outlets to avoid creating trip hazards from students stretching their charger to the wall.
56. Current syllabi are not available at the time of course registration so that students can gauge whether a course is interesting and worth taking.
57. Professors can change grading schemes mid-quarter against the interest of the student.
58. Course evaluations do not appear to lead to changes in outcome, and there are insufficient guarantees of anonymity for students seeking to report specific instances that could identify them.
59. Recitation session length is not always reflective of the true length of recitation which can interfere with scheduling other classes.
60. Recitation is often mandatory yet unnecessary, filled with busy work, and unhelpful for learning.
61. Disability accommodations are not always respected by professors, particularly if they are inconvenient to follow.
62. Disability testing center capacity is insufficient during peak exam periods.
63. Professors using platforms other than the centralized learning management system make it difficult to track different deadlines for different classes.
64. Academic buildings are closed at night and in the evening.
65. Campus lighting is insufficient in some pedestrian-heavy areas, particularly north of Race Street.
66. Bicycle racks are insufficient and poorly placed.
67. Some buildings, such as the library, lack recycling bins.
68. Residence hall maintenance requests can take weeks to resolve.
69. Residence hall laundry machines are frequently broken.
70. Most residence halls lack thermostats in each room which makes climate control difficult.
71. The co-op cycle can leave insufficient time to secure housing at an off-campus location.
72. Parking permits are expensive relative to availability.
73. Shuttle tracking apps and shuttle buses are unreliable.
74. The Student Emergency Fund limit is often insufficient to cover the cost of eligible emergencies.
75. Mock interviews are not career-specific and mainly cover generic questions.
76. Campus job listings can be outdated.
77. Counseling Center availability is limited during the beginning and end of the quarter.
78. Campus-wide wellness initiatives that are one-off in nature do little to address systemic causes since awareness about issues has peaked.
79. Office hours for many professors conflict with required classes, and scheduling appointments requires a lot of advance notice that students realistically do not always have or may not even think of because of the fixed notion of office hours not being an option. It would be easier if standard times for office hours existed, similar to Exam sections.
80. Courses sometimes have prerequisites or co-requisites when the course could be taken without having a full understanding of the previous class.
81. Professors can be inflexible with makeup exams when they are missed for justifiable reasons.
82. Study abroad programs often have no alignment with Drexel’s calendar which makes them quite difficult to do.
83. Study abroad credits are difficult to count towards non-free elective requirements for most majors.
84. While the ForagerOne database exists, research positions are often given through informal networks rather than giving everyone a fair opportunity.
85. Some laboratories lack enough space and chairs for the number of members.
86. Not all accessible doors actually work.
87. The Policy Council has not invited new student members for years.
88. USGA is not automatically a stakeholder in the university policy creation process.
89. There is no standardized timeline for professors to return graded work which makes it difficult to assess performance in the course or seek help early.
90. Graduate students do not have gym membership in their tuition even though the gym is massive.
91. Replacing a lost or damaged student ID is unnecessarily expensive.
92. Popular study rooms are often monopolized by a small number of recurring users.
93. Graduate students are not unionized.
94. Drinking fountains are unevenly distributed.
95. Outdoor seating is underutilized due to a lack of shade or weather protection.
96. There is no data published on student complaints.
97. Departments rarely solicit feedback from all of their affected students.
98. There is no standard for how quickly emails from students must be answered.
99. Academic departments rarely coordinate exam dates within and between each other outside of a few freshman courses.
100. Some professors reuse outdated curriculum.