Spring Break
Movin' on up
by Julie Zong
Features | 12/4/07
Posted online at 11:21 PM EST on 12/3/07
/ Last updated at 11:14 PM EST on 12/3/07
Fadavi plans to hold another "Knowing Your Rights" workshop, a session that informs students about tenant rights involved in signing contracts, again in the spring semester.
Another potential suggestion students have regarding ways to improve ResLife's involvement in off-campus housing are compiling an organized online directory of students seeking roommates for off-campus housing. While Fadavi has not yet created an off-campus roommate database, she says she can still help students find both off-campus housing and roommates. Fadavi said many landlords contact ResLife first when they are looking for student tenants. "I've been working with landlords, realty connections and community members," she says.
Despite her many ambitions for this year, Fadavi says her greatest challenge over the past few months has been publicizing her services to students. Most students say they haven't heard of Fadavi and her new role in ResLife.
Fadavi hopes to get the word out about ResLife services and workshops through meet-and-greets in the coming spring, especially to sophomores who are new to off-campus housing. "I will start going into residence halls after winter break to give [students] more information and help them make better decisions right around room-selection time," she says.
In addition to the opportunity to utilize the new services that Fadavi and ResLife provide, students looking to move off-campus have received positive feedback from students who currently live off-campus.
Commuter students say that living off campus offers them experience outside the Brandies campus. "Brandies is a bubble," says Giordano, who moved off-campus at the beginning of this semester. "I want to live off-campus just so I don't have to see it anymore. Most people want to live off campus because of the money factor; commuter students here are not happy with [on-campus] housing."
Even international students who have limited opportunities to find off-campus housing before school starts say finding off-campus housing was relatively simple.
Another potential suggestion students have regarding ways to improve ResLife's involvement in off-campus housing are compiling an organized online directory of students seeking roommates for off-campus housing. While Fadavi has not yet created an off-campus roommate database, she says she can still help students find both off-campus housing and roommates. Fadavi said many landlords contact ResLife first when they are looking for student tenants. "I've been working with landlords, realty connections and community members," she says.
Despite her many ambitions for this year, Fadavi says her greatest challenge over the past few months has been publicizing her services to students. Most students say they haven't heard of Fadavi and her new role in ResLife.
Fadavi hopes to get the word out about ResLife services and workshops through meet-and-greets in the coming spring, especially to sophomores who are new to off-campus housing. "I will start going into residence halls after winter break to give [students] more information and help them make better decisions right around room-selection time," she says.
In addition to the opportunity to utilize the new services that Fadavi and ResLife provide, students looking to move off-campus have received positive feedback from students who currently live off-campus.
Commuter students say that living off campus offers them experience outside the Brandies campus. "Brandies is a bubble," says Giordano, who moved off-campus at the beginning of this semester. "I want to live off-campus just so I don't have to see it anymore. Most people want to live off campus because of the money factor; commuter students here are not happy with [on-campus] housing."
Even international students who have limited opportunities to find off-campus housing before school starts say finding off-campus housing was relatively simple.
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