Beren campus housing has announced two housing modifications and additions over the past few months: housing for part time students, and extended summer housing.
The part time student housing initiative is in its trial run this semester. “We have five students in it right now,” revealed Shana Glasser, the Associate Director of 35th Street Residence Hall. “It is going successfully and we have decided to extend it to next semester as well.”
Last fall, the Office of the Dean, in conjunction with the Office of University Housing and Residence Life, created a pilot program offering part-time students in their last semester the option of living on campus for the Spring 2012 semester.
This program caters to students who wish to pursue joint programs—be it nursing, engineering… you name it. Essentially, students who are already accepted in graduate school but still have classes to complete for their major can stay in undergraduate housing even though they’re not considered full-time students, taking fewer than the required 12 credits at SCW.
As a whole, the program’s parameters are rather simple. All per-credit tuition, fees and housing charges apply. Students must adhere to all dorm regulations, and participate in the meal plan as well.
To be eligible for part time housing, a student be graduating in May 2012, currently registered for at least 3 credits of formal on-campus courses (which are required to complete an undergraduate degree), and all credits and grades for said courses must appear on the students official transcript.
On a similar note, the campus housing instituted a new, expanded summer housing initiative piloting this summer. Summer housing is available to all Yeshiva undergraduate students who will be involved in academic and professionally-related pursuits over the summer.
In previous years, “the program used to have strict guidelines, but now it’s open to any undergrad student,” said Glasser. “It used to be for [students getting summer] credit, but now it’s for anyone who staying in NY for the summer… We anticipate this pilot program to be extremely beneficial to students—all YU undergrad now have somewhere to stay for the summer,” she said.
This summer’s housing options will be different than in other years because of the program’s timespan. There will be two sessions of summer housing: May 29 – July 3, and July 3 – August 7. What this means in plain language is that now housing is opened until August 7 as opposed to closing after the first summer school semester.
The reason for this, Glasser said, is that “in housing, we’re all about the students. That’s just how we function – we want to make the students experiences here as pleasant as possible.”
As in previous years, all students who register for summer housing will be placed in the Schottenstein Residence Hall, 119 East 29th Street. For students interested in Summer Housing on the Beren Campus, applications are currently available in Rachel Kraut’s Office in the front of Brookedale between 9 am and 5 pm.
The one down side to the new housing initiative, Glasser admitted, is the monetary cost. “Now there’s regular housing fees and such to cover the cost to run an entire building for three months,” she said. Thus, the cost for Summer Housing is $750 for each session and $1,400 for students who wish to live on campus for both summer semesters. Glasser explained the cost decision saying “were just trying to make it make sense – change is never easy but were thinking more people will stay and benefit.”