New UA move-in procedures
Brian Washburn
Issue date: 8/21/08 Section: News
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"The process is still [that the student] selects the day and date when they move in, but now the campus is divided into zones," said Florence Johnson, director for administrative services for University Housing.
A reason behind this change is the growing number of students moving on campus, as well as the logistics of traffic and unloading, Johnson said. This is also the reason the UA has added three additional halls on the north side of campus with the Maple Hill complex, she said.
UA Housing divided the campus into four zones, according to the University Housing Web site. Zone 1 is for Reid Hall, Holcombe Hall and Futrall Hall and students moved into these halls Saturday, Aug. 16 and Sunday, Aug. 17. The second Zone was Maple Hill East, West and South. These students were moved in Monday and Tuesday. Zone 3 is Buchanan-Drake, Gibson, Humphreys, Pomfret and the odd floors in Yocum. People in these five residence halls were moved in yesterday and today. The last zone, which features the Northwest Quad, Gregson and the even floors of Yocum, will move in tomorrow.
"We wanted to move in the north end of campus as much as we could during the non-work days because there is less space for faculty and staff to go, plus we wanted to get the majority moved in before the start of public schools because of the schools on Leverett Street," Johnson said.
Even though the time tables for each zone fluctuate, every move-in day ends no later than 1:30 p.m., according to the Web site. "We didn't want to have staff, parents and students in the lots during the heat of the day, even though this year's weather was different, we usually have a high heat index in August," Johnson said.
University Housing has already seen positive feedback from both parents and students on the new move-in process.
"A number of parents who have moved in another student at another campus of similar size [to the UA] have said that this is a wonderful, well-organized and easy way to moving students," Johnson said.
"We also heard the students and parents wanted to shop during the [move-in] day, and when they came back they couldn't park close to the hall," she said. "This year we have a retail house, which is longer than an hour, where we monitor the lots so the parents and students can get back in."
Though the positive feedback and less-crowded streets and parking lots might convince people that this is the perfect solution to moving students into residence halls, Johnson said there is always room for improvement.
"We will probably keep the concept of the zones, but we will look at the numbers in the reports and analyze changes that need to be made," she said. "We haven't had any problems yet this year, but there are things we could do better. We look at it every year, it's a constant re-evaluation."
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