SA Community Life Committee

Minutes — April 23, 2013
Student Assembly Residence and Community Life Committee
4:30pm — 5:00pm, 146 Goldwin Smith Hall

Barbara Romano, Director of Residential and Event Service

• Past and Current Housing Lottery Timeline
  • Housing info. sessions begin in October
  • Housing info. sessions in November, December, and January
  • Housing Expo at end of January
  • Following Housing Expo are mosey, West Campus, Collegetown, and then program houses
  • Housing lottery open in January and close in February
  • Housing lottery is completely randomized, no matter when you decide to sign up for a time slot
  • Transfer Students
    • Housing applications open starting in September
    • There is always a process going on
• Contracts
  • Cornell only cancels contracts due to absentia (i.e. studying abroad)
  • Cornell releases occupancy if freshman wants to move into co-op for spring semester

Altering Timeline of Housing Lottery Discussion

• Open housing lottery earlier to allot more time for conversation with friends and family
• Major issue is the pressure to sign early leases for housing off-campus
• Another issue is the deeply ingrained mentality that sophomores are supposed to be on West Campus

Next Steps

• Acquire data/statistics on when people tend to sign up for housing lottery
• Find out what else is going on during housing lottery