Cornell President Hunter Rawlings has outlined a seven-point plan of action for campus residential housing that provides a unifying educational experience for new students, preserves most student choice in housing and continues the current range of housing options, which include traditional residence halls, program houses, cooperatives, fraternities and sororities and off-campus housing.
Under Rawlings' eagerly awaited plan, all freshmen will be housed in residences on North Campus as soon as possible. West Campus and Collegetown will be reserved for sophomores, juniors, seniors and a few graduate students. New residential space will be constructed on North Campus, and West Campus will be renovated and improved.
Rawlings' plan is a response to the final report of the Residential Communities Implementation PlanSteering Committee (RCSC) issued Sept. 29. That report offered a series of recommendations to improve the existing housing stock and community development programs but did not propose the alternative of housing all freshmen on North Campus.
Rawlings will present the plan to the Cornell Board of Trustees at its meeting on campus Oct. 18.
The full text of the president's action plan appears in this edition of the Cornell Chronicle. The document is also available electronically at http://www.sas.cornell.edu/sas/rescomm.