Zara Seldon PO ’29 recalls her experience with Pomona College’s Housing and Residence Life (HRL) office in her forced double as she attempted to remove an extra wardrobe. The new Center for Global Engagement (CGE), replacing Oldenborg, has caused a housing crisis evident through many residents’ experiences, but one that HRL was neither prepared to handle nor receive blame for.
Tag: Housing Crisis
Scripps transfers placed off-campus speak out on ResLife’s lack of transparency
Scripps transfer students expressed frustration with Scripps Resife after being placed in off-campus housing.
Pomona contingent faculty members’ housing crisis remains stagnant
Seventeen days after three Pomona College contingent faculty members sent an open letter to faculty about their removal from college-owned residences, the situation — in which a total of nine contingent faculty have received an eviction letter — has yet to be resolved. Still, members of Pomona’s community have continued
OPINION: Texas blackouts display a problem California is all too familiar with — just look at the housing crisis
Californians should not be quick to criticize Texas politicians in times of crisis, as they face similar issues, writes Ben Reicher PO ’22.
Two years after housing shortage, Scripps admits another large class. Is it ready this time?
Scripps admitted another large class this year, raising concerns of another housing shortage like last year’s, which sent 38 students to CGU.
Following shortage, Scripps expands on-campus housing options
Scripps College has made changes to address last year’s on-campus housing shortage, when over-enrollment for the class of 2021 resulted in 38 first-year students living in the Claremont Graduate University apartments on Foothill Boulevard. The administration made use of existing space on campus and renovated the president’s house, the Revelle