Sure. Arguments are valid either way. Saving money or paying for convenience. I completely get it and I’m at a point where I will pay extra for convenience. But mandating that someone spend more without the choice of convenience vs cost savings is simply using housing as a profit center. And the other poster I was going back and forth with is adamant that living on campus is actually less cost out of pocket, which is false.
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Lots of people here are just not going to like the direction the University of Houston is heading.
That’s fine, dont like it, but they are going to do all they can to shed the commuter school reputation we had for our first 75+ years so that when we get to our 200th birthday, all anyone will know is that the University of Houston is a premiere Traditional University…even a Destination University.
We just need to cycle through the generations of UH alums that are NOT aligned with Dr Khator’s vision and want us to remain a commuter school for PRIMARILY non traditional students.
THEY are our biggest detractors…and many of them are here on this fan forum
Sorry, those days are ending and ending very quickly.
The Power 4 designation even ramped up our sense of urgency to evolve more quickly.
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I can tell you that my law school classmates, most of whom lived off campus in Galleria area and Med Center apartments definitely paid more than I paid to live in Cougar Place. Rent, utilities, gas, commuting and car costs, you name it, they paid more and ended up deeper in student loan debt than yours truly.
The only off campus way of living that’s always going to save over living on campus is living at home with your parents, as my Mom did in college. FREE room and board, and possibly even money for gas!
Those people are already exempt from any proposed housing mandate.
That’s why my advice to people that don’t like the idea of a freshman housing mandate is the following; either live at home or go to HCC for a year.
That WILL be cheaper.
Otherwise, they need to begin reinventing themselves as more traditional students.
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Didn’t people expect these changes when we entered a Power 5 Conference?
I’m not understanding the resistance.
Commuter campuses are not a characteristic of schools with the prestige of a Power # label.
We’ve worked our way up and can now shed the mission statements of the past…just like Florida State (only accepted women) and Texas A&M (only accepted white men and with a preference to a military connection)
Both of those schools became MORE TRADITIONAL and so are we
Yeah - if you choose to live in the Four Seasons Residences, it likely will be more expensive. As stated, you can find examples for both sides of the argument. But business 101 is that convenience cost more. Go check out the price per ounce for a individual “fun size” bag of chips vs. “Party size”. You pay a lot for convenience. The supposed mandate is for freshman, not graduated law school students so we should think in those terms. An 18 year old likely doesn’t have the same comfort demands that a 22 year old will require.
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True enough, but you can always live at home or go to HCC your first year.
Texas State was formerly Southwest Texas State.
Southwest Texas was never a serious school. It lived in the big shadow of UT. It was a party school that rivaled Texas Tech.
My former father in law told his kids they could go to any college they wanted. After my wife went to SouthWest Texas he revised that statement to “any college except SWTx”.
Changing that old reputation takes decades (kinda like moving on from Cougar High).
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