New dorm to put UH at 10,000 on campus

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UH set to expand first-year housing with new dorm by 2027 - The Cougar.

This article says we’d have 10k on campus once this is built.

It would equal 21% being on campus not counting nearby off campus housing.

I’d say this would shed the commuter label.

The number is 25% on campus but this is close plus near off campus.

Old news from 7 months ago but great that it’s freshmen housing right by the stadium.

Article says this would be enough to make UH officially a residential university.

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The board of regents meeting talked about this housing today.

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Can’t read it subscription required

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Hopefully, they won’t be the type of freshmen who go home on the weekends.

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For comparison The U. of Arizona has slightly over 7,000 beds on campus. Their total enrollment is similar to UH.

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I believe we now have more UH students living on campus than uta and atm.
…BUT WE ARE A COMMUTER SCHOOL IN THE GHETTO

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Some posters just don’t have a high regard to their Alma mater.

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You do not like sarcasm?
By the way I had classes at night and never had one single issue.

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I’m pretty sure that wasn’t directed at you.

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He believes everything is directed at him.

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Another article on it from UH

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I like this part:

Quote: Over the past two years, SHRL has launched a strategic transformation aimed at positioning UH as a “primarily residential” campus — a classification set by the Carnegie Foundation that requires at least 25% of undergraduates to live on campus and 50% to be enrolled full time. This shift supports broader institutional goals, including UH’s ambition to rank among the nation’s top 50 public research institutions.

I was full time and residential for three years in law school at UH.

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If they want to improve campus life, they have to make it fun to be on campus.

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For a while the school was expecting freshman to live on campus. Is that still a requirement?

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Whitmire torpedoed that initiative. Pity. Would’ve helped!

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As mayor or on the BOR? Why not require it? Are the existing dorms at capacity?

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It was a decade or so ago when he was in the state senate.

Here’s a daily cougar article from then discussing it.

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Thank you.

wow, that one person had the power to sink the proposal is crazy and he has this mind set too, “UH will never be a destination school”, which may represent what some may consider the old UH – the age of commuters and limited campus life.

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No, occupancy is at 97% from 2024 data. That means about 240 beds
went unused.

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We have discussed this many times on this Board.

UH needs an “Entertainment District” by the campus. Doesn’t have to be large. Two blocks of College-oriented restaurants, stores, and Pubs would suffice.

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