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Longwood Village to see change next fall

The Longwood Village Apartments room ‘C’ will revert to being a single room next fall. Additionally, there will be no triple rooms on main campus.

According to Jean Wilwohl, the associate director of occupancy management in residential and commuter life (RCL), “The spring semester in the village is the same as it was in the fall semester, housing wise, but there are some changes next year.”

“In the past, the C bedroom was only a single, but when we became over-occupied we needed to make that a double room so we would have enough housing for the students while we built new housing.” said Wilwohl. “The plan was always at some point that the C room would go back to a single occupancy.”

The single occupant of the C room will not pay more for the extra space.

“It’s going to be same exact cost for each of the different bedrooms.” Wilwohl said.

The rooms are being changed this year because of the increased residential space.

“Sharp and Register (Halls) opened this year,” said Wilwohl. “We didn’t have that housing space in August, they were still finishing the construction on the building...We don’t feel that we’re going to need extra space.”

It is unknown if the room will be single occupancy permanently.

“If we were to see enrollment increase in the next year, we might need to double those rooms again, but we don’t know right now,” Wilwohl said.

With respect to the possibility that the rooms might become double occupancy, RCL is keeping the furniture for two people in the rooms next year.

“So, for next year we don’t believe there will be any problem making that room a single,” Wilwohl said, “But we feel it’s too soon yet to pull the furniture out of those rooms, because there could be potential that the following year, the fall of 2018, we might need to utilize that room as a double again.”

RCL has decided to keep the furniture in the space to prevent the need of buying more furniture in the future, according to Wilwohl.

“If we remove that furniture, and we surplus the furniture, but then we need to make it a double again, where are we getting that furniture to accommodate all the students that needs housing?” Wilwohl said, “So for next year, if someone signs up for the C bedroom, they won’t have a roommate, but the furniture will still be in there.”

Students may access the Longwood website to find further information when signing up for housing for the 2017-2018 year. The change was stated in an email sent out to students before the necessary date to sign up for Longwood-managed housing starting with rising senior apartment registration on Feb. 20.

“We wanted to make sure that students are aware prior to housing registration, that students can make informed decisions about where they want to live,” said Wilwohl.

"I think it'll honestly be fine,” said Kimberly Daucher, a residential assistant in Cox Residence Hall. "There were triple rooms in Frazer and Curry (Residence Halls). People know they need groups of three to go to the (Longwood) Village."

According to Wilwohl, in addition to the new buildings and student population, the percentage of students seeking on-campus housing is also taken into account.

“We’re about 70 percent residential and over the past ten years, that hasn’t really fluctuated and stayed stable,” said Wilwohl.

According to Wilwohl, one of RCL’s goals is “trying to get our housing back to a non-expanded form”.

With that in mind, the school is trying to provide as much housing as possible.

“There is still a high demand from students that want to be in Longwood housing,” said Wilwohl.

Given Longwood’s location and the fairly small size of Farmville, RCL is cognizant of housing space concerns.

“We want to make it so that if a student wants to live in our housing, that housing is available, and we also know that the town has limited housing off-campus,” said Wilwohl. “One thing we we’ve been able to do is provide students housing all four years if they want.”

Though the new buildings are finished, changing the rooms back and allowing triple rooms on the main campus remain possibilities if future enrollment increases, according to Wilwohl.

“We don’t want to ever see a student not be able to attend Longwood because they can’t find a place to live,” Wilwohl said.