Quality over quantity. Take care of your own, I lived in the Howard Johnson Hotel before it was renamed the Barymore Hotel and I can 100% guarantee that Upperclassman do not want to live be there. My best memories and experiences of my UT undergraduate degree were living on campus and being surrounded by that college environment. Turning the population into a more freshman and transfer population will make UT lose its identity. Reward people who have spent a lot of money and have worked hard to make UT have proud Alumni.
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Madeline Perigaut
10 years ago
This absolutely disgusts me. The school is currently focusing all of their resources on freshmen instead of prioritizing the upperclassmen who have been here and have been contributing to this university for far longer.
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Martha Alvarez
10 years ago
Please reverse this. Unfair to my junior year son.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Not fair. Not fair at all.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
You should make more housing for incoming students before you worry about upping the amount that you're bringing in. Please talk to the students instead of just relying on the literature you have seen from other sources.
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Rayssa Taiar
10 years ago
This new rule doesn't make sence!!
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Anonymous
10 years ago
It's not fair.
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Allison Velez
10 years ago
One of the main reasons we selected UoT was because it would provide a safe contained environment in what is otherwise an area of great concern. Affordability of housing in an adequate area plus the additional travel time and expense make UoT not such an attractive option if my daughter loses future housing. What good is encouraging more freshman if you lose the upperclassmen? Your statistic on percentage of students who complete their education there will go down the tubes.
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Joanna O'Sullivan
10 years ago
Bringing in more freshman should not be any school's top priority. Appreciate the students you already have before they decide to transfer to a school that treats them better.
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Jenny Asaro
10 years ago
I chose the University of Tampa solely based on its small class size and low campus population...in the years I have been here it had slowly been moving in the opposite direction. Bigger is not always better.
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Susan Chubbuck
10 years ago
It seems to me that guaranteed ( prioritized) on campus housing is being used as bait to seal the deal with freshmen and transfers alike. Meantime everyone who's already enrolled and is invested In their education gets thrown under the bus. It's not just unfair it's an outrageous practice that needs to be stopped. The first order of business is to accept the appropriate amount of students for the amount of housing that you have. There should never be overflow. It's a numbers game. You want to show increased enrollment and revenue at the cost of others. A university should never compromise their current students for monetary gain.
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Victoria Sunseri
10 years ago
Living off campus put students at a disadvantage because:
A) It makes it more difficult to get involved in the " over 200 clubs and organizations." When you're not hanging around campus until 8 at night when the meeting time/ actual events are.
B) Commuting time is a problem the more students you put off campus. Not all of us would like to have to commute to school every morning and add to the congestion that makes students that commute right now, without all of the upperclassman on the road, late.
C) We don't live in the safest area. We all know that from the global messages we receive and warnings not to walk down certain streets past a certain time. The more students you put off campus, the more likely it is that the school's name will be associated with crimes comitted.
D) How is it fair as upperclassmen, that we are put at a disadvantage because U.T is adding more new students than they can support? The facilities should be put in place before the number of freshman grow. Not vice-versa. Putting upperclassmen in the more inconvenient places to lives such as the hotel just because of the multiple semesters they've taken to establish themselves on campus and find a home at U.T, is terribly unfair and will surely change the dynamic at the school for the worst.
Having said all this, I propose that U.T informs the Current freshman that when they get into their junior and senior years this change is a possibility, but to suddenly change housing policy mid-way or more through many of students undergraduate schooling at U.T is inconsiderate and insensitive to students needs.
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Kimberly Conroy
10 years ago
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I believe that it is unfair freshman have priority over all other students, students who have been loyal to UT for years. Especially athletes. As a manager for the volleyball team it is unfair to expect players to live off campus and commute for practices, and then classes
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Kailee Munson
10 years ago
I believe freshman should be on campus, but not as many should be accepted so juniors and seniors are able to have suites with the kitchens
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Sara Brogan
10 years ago
Please reverse this!
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Kevin Flannery
10 years ago
If you don't have room for more students then don't admit so many
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Jill haberman
10 years ago
As a parent of an junior, I'm very upset that this has happened with no warning. These kids have waited 2 to 3 years to get in the upper classman housing, and now not a chance. This is unfair, unjust, and uncalled for. Put your freshmen off campus and shuttle them in. Some upper classmen don't have transportation to and from school either. Plus, you don't even have enough parking for them. You need to reverse this and do what you originally set out to do, upper classmen were the priority for housing. The 2015-16 class was told that they would not have upperclassmen housing, the others were not. Quit growing beyond what you can handle, both in housing and class size.
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Alex Davis
10 years ago
Please do not change the current housing rule!
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Richard harrington
10 years ago
Stop accepting people if you cannot accommodate them.
Every freshman I've talked to loves de hotel.
Quality over quantity. Take care of your own, I lived in the Howard Johnson Hotel before it was renamed the Barymore Hotel and I can 100% guarantee that Upperclassman do not want to live be there. My best memories and experiences of my UT undergraduate degree were living on campus and being surrounded by that college environment. Turning the population into a more freshman and transfer population will make UT lose its identity. Reward people who have spent a lot of money and have worked hard to make UT have proud Alumni.
This absolutely disgusts me. The school is currently focusing all of their resources on freshmen instead of prioritizing the upperclassmen who have been here and have been contributing to this university for far longer.
Please reverse this. Unfair to my junior year son.
Not fair. Not fair at all.
You should make more housing for incoming students before you worry about upping the amount that you're bringing in. Please talk to the students instead of just relying on the literature you have seen from other sources.
This new rule doesn't make sence!!
It's not fair.
One of the main reasons we selected UoT was because it would provide a safe contained environment in what is otherwise an area of great concern. Affordability of housing in an adequate area plus the additional travel time and expense make UoT not such an attractive option if my daughter loses future housing. What good is encouraging more freshman if you lose the upperclassmen? Your statistic on percentage of students who complete their education there will go down the tubes.
Bringing in more freshman should not be any school's top priority. Appreciate the students you already have before they decide to transfer to a school that treats them better.
I chose the University of Tampa solely based on its small class size and low campus population...in the years I have been here it had slowly been moving in the opposite direction. Bigger is not always better.
It seems to me that guaranteed ( prioritized) on campus housing is being used as bait to seal the deal with freshmen and transfers alike. Meantime everyone who's already enrolled and is invested In their education gets thrown under the bus. It's not just unfair it's an outrageous practice that needs to be stopped. The first order of business is to accept the appropriate amount of students for the amount of housing that you have. There should never be overflow. It's a numbers game. You want to show increased enrollment and revenue at the cost of others. A university should never compromise their current students for monetary gain.
Living off campus put students at a disadvantage because: A) It makes it more difficult to get involved in the " over 200 clubs and organizations." When you're not hanging around campus until 8 at night when the meeting time/ actual events are. B) Commuting time is a problem the more students you put off campus. Not all of us would like to have to commute to school every morning and add to the congestion that makes students that commute right now, without all of the upperclassman on the road, late. C) We don't live in the safest area. We all know that from the global messages we receive and warnings not to walk down certain streets past a certain time. The more students you put off campus, the more likely it is that the school's name will be associated with crimes comitted. D) How is it fair as upperclassmen, that we are put at a disadvantage because U.T is adding more new students than they can support? The facilities should be put in place before the number of freshman grow. Not vice-versa. Putting upperclassmen in the more inconvenient places to lives such as the hotel just because of the multiple semesters they've taken to establish themselves on campus and find a home at U.T, is terribly unfair and will surely change the dynamic at the school for the worst. Having said all this, I propose that U.T informs the Current freshman that when they get into their junior and senior years this change is a possibility, but to suddenly change housing policy mid-way or more through many of students undergraduate schooling at U.T is inconsiderate and insensitive to students needs.
I believe that it is unfair freshman have priority over all other students, students who have been loyal to UT for years. Especially athletes. As a manager for the volleyball team it is unfair to expect players to live off campus and commute for practices, and then classes
I believe freshman should be on campus, but not as many should be accepted so juniors and seniors are able to have suites with the kitchens
Please reverse this!
If you don't have room for more students then don't admit so many
As a parent of an junior, I'm very upset that this has happened with no warning. These kids have waited 2 to 3 years to get in the upper classman housing, and now not a chance. This is unfair, unjust, and uncalled for. Put your freshmen off campus and shuttle them in. Some upper classmen don't have transportation to and from school either. Plus, you don't even have enough parking for them. You need to reverse this and do what you originally set out to do, upper classmen were the priority for housing. The 2015-16 class was told that they would not have upperclassmen housing, the others were not. Quit growing beyond what you can handle, both in housing and class size.
Please do not change the current housing rule!
Stop accepting people if you cannot accommodate them.