LU Hub is the online community and engagements app for Lamar University students and faculty.
“We’ve had LU Hub since the summer of 2020,” Kyle Fayan, associate director for student involvement and the Setzer Student Center, said. “It’s a great resource and tool for communicating events and activities that we’re doing.”
The hub allows students and faculty to log on and see what events are happening that week on campus. Student Organizations use the site to post events and meeting times.
“When you get on to LU Hub, it’s the homepage and the events are right there,” Kathryn Brown, student organization assistant said. “It’s easy to navigate and especially helpful if you’re in an organization, because everything for your organization is on LU Hub and it helps students get more involved.”
Fayan said he hopes many more students will use LU Hub than they currently do, and many student organizations and clubs utilize the Hub.
“The Texas Academy uses it very heavily for their students and clubs,” Fayan said. “The Honors College uses it for all of their events and communications to their students, and Cardinal Communities is starting to get on board with using it for their communication.”
LU Hub is not only for student organization events and communication, but also to promote events that the entire Lamar community can participate in around Southeast Texas.
“Last semester, I put in events like classic movie nights at the Jefferson Theatre,” Brown said. “I even put events like yoga at the Cattail Marsh and some farmer’s market things.”
Fayan said he decided to start putting community-wide events on LU Hub so that more people could be involved.
“We have a large international population that is older than some of our undergraduate students,” Fayan said. “Having some of these community events that they can get engaged with sort of integrates them with the community and doesn’t keep them isolated to just what Lamar is doing.”
In the future, Fayan said he would like to add several features to LU Hub.
“We’re looking into a different reservation software for the campus, so that there’s only one for the whole campus, since there’s about five right now,” he said. “It’ll be integrated into LU Hub to book rooms and spaces for groups or to study.”
Fayan said he wants LU Hub to be the one place where students can access everything.
“Right now, we have to go everywhere for everything,” he said. “The more we can have in one spot, (the more it) seems beneficial.”
Brown said she hopes more students will discover LU Hub and utilize it to their advantage.
“I think the problem is, people don’t know what it’s capable of and don’t want to take the time to learn something they don’t know,” she said. “Hopefully, in the future, more people will learn, word will get around and it will just grow.”
LU Hub is available at luhub.lamar.edu/home_login or is available to download through any app store.