Post by aggie2039 on Aug 22, 2023 21:30:17 GMT -5
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South Carolina State University is welcoming nearly 3,000 students for the fall 2023 semester, including more than 1,000 freshmen.
Finding room for all of the students who want university housing has not been without its challenges, the president said.
Tasha Brown of Greensboro, North Carolina, said her daughter, Synaa, enrolled as a freshman at S.C. State and paid the $160 enrollment fee, which covered the housing deposit for freshman.
Even so, she was told her daughter would be placed on a waiting list when they arrived on campus Wednesday, Aug. 9, for move-in day.
She continued, “The school was not communicating with parents. We kept trying to call, and they have attitudes because we’re calling and things like that. You can’t get an attitude when people pay out of their pocket. Times are hard at this moment, and we don’t have money to just give. ... It’s really unfair.”
Brown said she spent money on her daughter’s dormitory that will now go unused, at least for now.
“We went out and spent all this money on dorm stuff, things for school. It’s totally messed up. It’s just really messed up. I know North Carolina A&T (University) was having the same issue, but they put their students up in hotels until could find housing. They’re not even trying to do that,” she said.
“They just said, ‘Bump it. They’re just going to miss the school year,’ which is unfair. It’s really unfair because we could have went another place if you would have communicated ahead of time and said, ‘Hey, we don’t have enough housing. We’re going to cut off the payment for the deposit so you can save it and apply somewhere else.’ You didn’t even give us that opportunity to even do that,” Brown said.
South Carolina State University is welcoming nearly 3,000 students for the fall 2023 semester, including more than 1,000 freshmen.
Finding room for all of the students who want university housing has not been without its challenges, the president said.
Tasha Brown of Greensboro, North Carolina, said her daughter, Synaa, enrolled as a freshman at S.C. State and paid the $160 enrollment fee, which covered the housing deposit for freshman.
Even so, she was told her daughter would be placed on a waiting list when they arrived on campus Wednesday, Aug. 9, for move-in day.
She continued, “The school was not communicating with parents. We kept trying to call, and they have attitudes because we’re calling and things like that. You can’t get an attitude when people pay out of their pocket. Times are hard at this moment, and we don’t have money to just give. ... It’s really unfair.”
Brown said she spent money on her daughter’s dormitory that will now go unused, at least for now.
“We went out and spent all this money on dorm stuff, things for school. It’s totally messed up. It’s just really messed up. I know North Carolina A&T (University) was having the same issue, but they put their students up in hotels until could find housing. They’re not even trying to do that,” she said.
“They just said, ‘Bump it. They’re just going to miss the school year,’ which is unfair. It’s really unfair because we could have went another place if you would have communicated ahead of time and said, ‘Hey, we don’t have enough housing. We’re going to cut off the payment for the deposit so you can save it and apply somewhere else.’ You didn’t even give us that opportunity to even do that,” Brown said.
