On this weeks episode of NC A&T students and social media..
Jul 27, 2022 12:52:50 GMT -5
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Post by Aggie Monster on Jul 27, 2022 12:52:50 GMT -5
NC A&T State University students face housing hassle
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — A high demand for housing at North Carolina A&T State University has left some students waiting for a room assignment three weeks away from the start of the semester.
N.C. A&T spokesman Todd Simmons told FOX8 that every incoming and transfer student will have a bed in university housing by Labor Day, which is more than two weeks after the semester starts. “We do hear sometimes from students that housing was not available for them, but the numbers indicate that it is,” Simmons said. “As long as students meet their appointments for selecting their housing, get their applications in on time, pay their deposits, all the things that are required to access university housing, they will be taken care of.”
Simmons told FOX8 that 3,274 incoming and transfer students applied for housing this fall. He said 300 students do not have assignments until their orientation is complete, but rooms are available.
“We project we’ll have enough natural attrition that it will resolve our issue entirely,” he said.
There are about 100 students selected for temporary housing at the Drury Inn and Suites on West Gate City Boulevard nearly five miles away from campus. Students will stay in the hotel until the housing assignments are figured out.
Simmons said enrollment is projected to be 14,000 students by 2023.
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This is what happens when you subscribe to the head-in-the-sand approach to public relations.
There is no reason an article like this even needed to be printed if we had just communicated better with our students earlier.
Thrilla you of all people know that unless you call a person on the phone and tell them yourself then "I didn't know and you didn't communicate it well enough" is going to be their excuse.
I dont blame our administration AT ALL. They were warned, they are always warned. They just thought, "well, it will work out. I'll leave it to God." Nope, you aint got housing, now what? "Well I didn't know it was this bad". Well, we told you. You ignored it or didn't think it would happen to you and now its our fault.
They were warned. We are warned every year by EVERY University.