ADRIAN, Mich. – Adrian College is making several changes to its housing options in 2007-2008.

The College will now offer theme housing in houses adjacent to campus, including two homes it recently purchased. Theme housing enables a group of students to explore common interests or issues while living together. Examples include houses centered in academic arenas such as foreign language, pre-med and teacher education.

All campus residents are eligible for theme houses, and are invited to pick up an application in Student Affairs next semester.

Beginning next fall, a Freshmen Quad will be established. All incoming students will live together in Davis, Feeman, Stevens and Powell. This unique living experience is targeted at creating greater opportunities for bonding and programming for freshmen, and has successfully improved retention at other cutting-edge colleges.

Another way the College will improve its housing options is by renovating Pellowe Hall. The structure, which is currently used by Conferences for housing off-campus guests, will be completely renovated and updated to include 74 air conditioned single rooms, each with its own bathroom facility.

Cargo Hall will be renovated, and the second floor will now be co-ed. In addition, the building will include a fully-equipped recreation room where students can host registered social events, a movie room, and possibly a bowling alley.

After listening to concerns from Adrian College Greek women, the sororities will relocate from Herrick and Lowry to Jarvis Hall. Each sorority will have its own floor, its own chapter room in the basement, and will elect a house manager to act as a liaison between the chapter and Student Affairs.

The College will increase its live-in professional staff from two to five, and reduce its student staff by eliminating residence director and Greek assistant positions. Five resident assistant positions will be added.

These staff changes bring Adrian’s ratio of staff to students closer to other colleges, and will create more independence for students living in the residence halls and Greek housing.

Several in-hall apartments formerly occupied by residence directors will now be available to students. The apartments feature a bedroom, living room and kitchen.
The College is adding a four-year residency requirement for all students. This will strengthen the residential quality of the Adrian campus, and will help maximize housing capacity to enable the College to continue to improve student housing in the future. This residency requirement will not affect commuter students.

In addition to the new options of Pellowe singles, in-hall apartments, large and small singles, and theme housing, the renovated College View Apartments that opened this year will continue to be available.