New Housing Process Affects Residents of SHC

Spring Hill College Residence Life staff and students adjusted to the new housing selection process.

The new housing selection process was released this spring semester and students saw a change in the process. Residence Life staff has new hires, including Nathan McQuinn who is the Director of Residence Life and Community Standards, and Lexus Pickett who is the new Housing Operations Manager. With McQuinn having been here just over six months and Pickett here for only two months, Residence Life staff has fresh eyes and new perspectives on the housing selection process.

According to an email sent out by Residence Life this past March, rising seniors still have first priority to their housing selection and after it goes down the line by credit hours. However, the big change this year is rising juniors and sophomores had the opportunity to pick to live in one of the apartment complexes that Spring Hill has to offer, specifically the Fairways Apartments. Moreover, a designated rising senior could choose to live with a rising junior or sophomore and place them into their Fairways Apartments. These are drastic changes compared to past years because Fairways Apartments used to be only reserved for seniors.

Spring Hill rising senior Sasha Falch said, “Fairways is senior privilege. I believe only seniors should get to live in the Fairways Apartments. They have done their time, and it is a Spring Hill tradition that seniors get the privilege of living in senior housing.

McQuinn said, “when it comes to equity in the process, the students that have the most credits will be able to choose the rooms first. If the goal of Spring Hill is to produce graduates, and leaders, that is the thing we should be using to measure who picks rooms first is the number of credits somebody has, progressing towards that goal of graduation.”

The first round of housing selection opened March 10 at 6 p.m. for rising seniors who had previously filled out the housing application for the upcoming academic year. Students who failed to submit the application prior to selection were not guaranteed an early spot for choosing housing, resulting in a smaller chance at achieving their desired arrangement.

Not all students were upset with the change in the housing selection process. Spring Hill rising junior Gavin Johnson said, “I am very happy to be living where I am next year which is the Fairways Apartment. I feel students should be able to live

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According to McQuinn, Residence Life will address any issues after each selection weekend and after the entire process. Additionally, Residence Life plans on helping anyone who did not participate one-on-one in the room selection process and an evaluation will be sent out to get feedback so Residence Life can improve their process for next year. shcmedia@shc.edu SHC

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