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Thanks to all who signed. From housing:
This communication is an update on the recent discussions and decision regarding the changes in the on-campus housing recontracting process. Following approval of the Recontracting Committee, Residence Hall Association, and Housing Advisory Board, the revised process was introduced to students. Among other changes, the plan allocates north campus space for all classes, and provides an additional 5% over past year for first year students and sophomores. This is to ensure a greater balance of students across campus by permitting all classes an opportunity to contract in north campus. The change also helps avoid the sophomore squeeze, which was experienced last year when sophomores had little or no options for north campus housing, and calls for sophomore priority in recontracting.
Although most of the revisions received support from students, the recommendation to provide sophomores priority over seniors has met resistance. As a result, Housing and Residential Education reviewed and revisited the policy with members of the Chancellor’s Student Advisory Committee, Housing Advisory Board, Residence Hall Association, Student Government, plus interested students. Through these discussions, a proposal has been offered to restore the senior selection priority, while still maintaining the ideals of academic classification balance. The proposal has been adopted.
The plan will still allocate north campus space for all classes, and still provide an additional 5% for first year students and sophomores. However, seniors will now have first priority in the recontracting process. This does not guarantee that all seniors who request north campus will be successful, as space will remain limited. However, it will increase, somewhat, the chance to be assigned with a roommate of their choosing, and first chance at available single rooms, while still balancing space availability.
Additional information about the recontracting process and timeline will be available on our website at http://housing.unc.edu/get_roo... beginning on Tuesday, February 7, 2006. Several recontracting workshops will also be scheduled throughout our residential communities in the weeks leading up to recontracting. Specific dates and locations will be announced.
We wish to express our gratitude for the input we have received in emails, phone calls, and conversations. We wish to especially recognize the efforts of the advisory boards and student organizations and individuals who took the time to review and discuss the details of the process in formulating this outcome.
Specifically, our thanks to the members of the Housing Recontracting Committee, the Residence Hall Association, the Housing Advisory Board, the Chancellor’s Student Advisory Committee, and Student Government. Several individual students were highly involved in the process that led to these changes, including Chasity Wilson (RHA President), Timothy Bleckley (Housing Advisory Board Chair), Adrian Johnston (Student Body Vice President), Leigha Blackwell (Housing Advisory Board), Elisabeth Pascale (Involved Student), and Matthew Breazeale (Involved Student).
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