Off-Campus Housing Procedures Clarified
Students told not to sign leases without permission
Issue date: 10/28/09 Section: News
By Ben Maitland
Rotunda Reporter
Off-campus housing is defined as any accommodations that are leased from a private landlord within the Farmville community. While many returning Longwood students will once again call the dorms and Longwood-managed apartments home, there are those students who will be applying to live off-campus in one of the several off-campus housing units. With housing sign-ups for the 2010-2011 school year starting the first week of February, the Office of Residential and Commuter Life (RCL), along with off-campus housing units such as Sunchase Apartments, are looking towards making the process for students as worry-free as possible.
Associate Director of Housing Doug Howell, along with off-campus landlords from Sunchase and Walk2Campus, held a Community Landlord Breakfast on Wed., Oct. 21. They discussed a timeline and upcoming events that RCL has planned as the off-campus housing sign-up dates near. Howell is confident that all the measures and procedures for the application process will prove successful.
"When you talk about off campus living, we have to be very clear what that means, in other words, how that student defines off campus. To us, living off campus means that they want to become a commuter student and to live independent of anything Longwood-managed," said Howell.
The off campus release application period will run from February 8-12 for those who are eligible. Eligible residents must complete at least 56 credit hours by the conclusion of the spring 2010 semester in order to submit an Off-Campus Request Application. The applications are rank ordered from highest to lowest number of earned credits when they come in and RCL determines how many students can go off-campus. If many students have the same number of credit hours, the enrollment dates of the students are looked at to see who paid their deposit the earliest. That student would get priority over the others. Submission of a release application does not guarantee release.
Rotunda Reporter
Off-campus housing is defined as any accommodations that are leased from a private landlord within the Farmville community. While many returning Longwood students will once again call the dorms and Longwood-managed apartments home, there are those students who will be applying to live off-campus in one of the several off-campus housing units. With housing sign-ups for the 2010-2011 school year starting the first week of February, the Office of Residential and Commuter Life (RCL), along with off-campus housing units such as Sunchase Apartments, are looking towards making the process for students as worry-free as possible.
Associate Director of Housing Doug Howell, along with off-campus landlords from Sunchase and Walk2Campus, held a Community Landlord Breakfast on Wed., Oct. 21. They discussed a timeline and upcoming events that RCL has planned as the off-campus housing sign-up dates near. Howell is confident that all the measures and procedures for the application process will prove successful.
"When you talk about off campus living, we have to be very clear what that means, in other words, how that student defines off campus. To us, living off campus means that they want to become a commuter student and to live independent of anything Longwood-managed," said Howell.
The off campus release application period will run from February 8-12 for those who are eligible. Eligible residents must complete at least 56 credit hours by the conclusion of the spring 2010 semester in order to submit an Off-Campus Request Application. The applications are rank ordered from highest to lowest number of earned credits when they come in and RCL determines how many students can go off-campus. If many students have the same number of credit hours, the enrollment dates of the students are looked at to see who paid their deposit the earliest. That student would get priority over the others. Submission of a release application does not guarantee release.
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Marilyn Bell
posted 11/03/09 @ 7:23 PM EST
If being an off campus commuter student means that student is not governed by any Longwood managed programs then why do those who live off campus (Such as in the Sunchase Apartments) have to purchase a minimum weekly five meal ticket plan to "D" Hall every semester? Seems like the University is only worried about making money not making sure the students keep up an active social tie with the other students. (Continued…)
cv resume
posted 11/29/09 @ 7:14 AM EST
RCL has always encouraged students to wait before signing a lease because it is in the students' best interests. It is may be so.
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