This year’s waiting list for on-campus housing currently stands at 126, according to Director of Housing and Residence Life Alvin Sturdivant. Sturdivant said he expects that all these students will be placed by the start of next school year, as Housing and Res. Life is receiving contract release requests and cancellations daily, due to transfers and students studying abroad in the fall.
Juniors and seniors on that list are also being offered places in the Lofts, where there are still vacancies—99 spaces remain open there, out of a total of 298.
As for the housing scholarship issues, questions of squatting policies and any changes to the housing sign-up process for next year, Sturdivant said that they were still under discussion.
No final or large-scale decisions will be made until at least mid-summer, he said, and in the meantime, a large survey will soon be sent out to students about housing, including how students felt about the sign-up process. He said that this and other feedback would be taken into account in upcoming discussions.
“As always, we’re going to review everything; once we have an opportunity to cool down from the closing of the semester … we’ll really have an opportunity to look into the feedback we’ve received and make some decisions about how to move forward,” Sturdivant said.