What is the official percentage of students who live on campus as published by the university compared to, say, 25 years ago?
(04-23-2013 12:39 PM)BlazerGrad88 Wrote: [ -> ]What is the official percentage of students who live on campus as published by the university compared to, say, 25 years ago?
I don't know about 25 years ago, but as of Fall 2012 we had 2300 students on Campus, with 1150 of those being first-time freshman. That comes out to 68% of incoming freshman living on campus.
http://www.uab.edu/news/latest/item/2735...utive-year
So I guess freshmen aren't required to live on campus anymore?
(04-23-2013 12:52 PM)the_blazerman Wrote: [ -> ]So I guess freshmen aren't required to live on campus anymore?
UAB hasn't ever required all the freshman to live on campus, but in the last year or two they have started requiring all first-time freshman with an academic scholarship to live on campus for 1 year unless you apply for an exemption(Either living at home, or some special circumstance).
https://www.uab.edu/students/undergradua...p-students
Yeah, Little Smaug accepted an academic scholarship, and the requirement was the GPA and to live on campus.
BTW, looks like she'll be a marching Blazer in the fall. Pretty excited about that.
Sorry for the derail.
No derailing there. I was wondering if it impacted your daughter.
It was closer to 10% in the late 90s
back in my day we didn't have student housing and we had to walk to class in the rain and snow five miles uphill boy ways. in the mid 80s there was one building for regular students. one dorm for nursing students and one for married grad students (to the best of my recollection which is suspect)
(04-23-2013 12:50 PM)dragondrummer Wrote: [ -> ] (04-23-2013 12:39 PM)BlazerGrad88 Wrote: [ -> ]What is the official percentage of students who live on campus as published by the university compared to, say, 25 years ago?
I don't know about 25 years ago, but as of Fall 2012 we had 2300 students on Campus, with 1150 of those being first-time freshman. That comes out to 68% of incoming freshman living on campus.
http://www.uab.edu/news/latest/item/2735...utive-year
Just curious -- In what year did "living on campus" first become possible for undergrads? I know there was a Nurse's dorm and some married medical student apts, but I'm talking about regular students.
The new dorm is much needed. Housing is busting at the seams right now.
For the next two years until the new dorm open, freshman living in Camp Hall will be three people to one small bedroom. Even for upperclassmen if you don't apply for housing the first second the application is available you won't get in.
(04-23-2013 11:09 PM)hooverblazer Wrote: [ -> ]The new dorm is much needed. Housing is busting at the seams right now.
For the next two years until the new dorm open, freshman living in Camp Hall will be three people to one small bedroom. Even for upperclassmen if you don't apply for housing the first second the application is available you won't get in.
This need is only going to get worse unless the administration resorts to artificially holding the enrollment in check. If the needed dormitory space is provided - with the additional classroom space and faculty the added numbers will need - UAB could become what UCF and USF have become in terms of numbers. And we don't have to reduce standards to do it either.