Residence life to host meetings for students
Brandon Boylan
Issue date: 1/28/10 Section: News
With a new Strategic Plan set to be implemented at TLU, the Department of Residence Life is working to see what renovations students would like to see come to the living facilities on campus.
Kyle Wych, director of residence life, will be holding meetings where students can come and tell him what changes they would like to see. Meetings were held Tuesday and Wednesday, with more to be held Thursday, Jan. 28 in Clifton at 8 p.m. and Seguin Hall at 9 p.m. and Tuesday, Feb. 2 at 9:30 a.m. in conference rooms A and B in the ASC.
"The biggest thing I am going to be doing over probably the next three or four weeks is having signs put up in the residence hall and apartment areas to just come talk to me about what type of facilities they would like to live in," Wych said.
Wych has held such meetings in the past with great success.
Wych encourages students to not ignore such a unique opportunity and to bring in any ideas they have. The meetings are an open forum.
"[Nothing] is too outlandish from what we can incorporate into a building. While there are no guarantees, a lot of things can happen," Wych said. "I have an idea what students want, but that changes from year to year."
Students are the crux of the impending renovations having a positive impact on TLU.
Students are aware of the shortcomings of the current residence halls and apartments.
"If they were nicer," Kaitlin Willet, freshmen biology major and Baldus resident, said, "people wouldn't go home on the weekend."
Poor facilities not only push people away from campus but also diminish their potential to be successful.
"In the residence halls, people are actually living there," Meredith Price, senior youth and family ministry major and apartments resident assistant, said. "If you're not comfortable and accommodated in your home, it is going to be really hard for you to be productive."
This outlook is shared by students and faculty alike.
"Students who are comfortable and happy with where they live are going to do better in class," Alicia Boone, apartments area coordinator, said. "If we had maybe newer, more current facilities, we would probably have more students living on campus."
Kyle Wych, director of residence life, will be holding meetings where students can come and tell him what changes they would like to see. Meetings were held Tuesday and Wednesday, with more to be held Thursday, Jan. 28 in Clifton at 8 p.m. and Seguin Hall at 9 p.m. and Tuesday, Feb. 2 at 9:30 a.m. in conference rooms A and B in the ASC.
"The biggest thing I am going to be doing over probably the next three or four weeks is having signs put up in the residence hall and apartment areas to just come talk to me about what type of facilities they would like to live in," Wych said.
Wych has held such meetings in the past with great success.
Wych encourages students to not ignore such a unique opportunity and to bring in any ideas they have. The meetings are an open forum.
"[Nothing] is too outlandish from what we can incorporate into a building. While there are no guarantees, a lot of things can happen," Wych said. "I have an idea what students want, but that changes from year to year."
Students are the crux of the impending renovations having a positive impact on TLU.
Students are aware of the shortcomings of the current residence halls and apartments.
"If they were nicer," Kaitlin Willet, freshmen biology major and Baldus resident, said, "people wouldn't go home on the weekend."
Poor facilities not only push people away from campus but also diminish their potential to be successful.
"In the residence halls, people are actually living there," Meredith Price, senior youth and family ministry major and apartments resident assistant, said. "If you're not comfortable and accommodated in your home, it is going to be really hard for you to be productive."
This outlook is shared by students and faculty alike.
"Students who are comfortable and happy with where they live are going to do better in class," Alicia Boone, apartments area coordinator, said. "If we had maybe newer, more current facilities, we would probably have more students living on campus."
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