Wesleyan Village to receive consulting

Wesleyan student housing will come under professional review March 1 and 2.

The board of trustees charged Wesleyan President  Harold Jeffcoat to “develop a plan to maximize revenue from student housing with emphasis on Wesleyan Village occupancy.”

Dean of Students Carey Poole cites the consultant’s history as a positive point.
John White, past housing consultant for University of Texas at San Antonio, and Bambi Harris, real estate specialist, will perform an analysis to get a feel of what residents think about Wesleyan Village.

“They’re going to interview students, RAs, former residential students and administrators,” said Pati Alexander, vice president for enrollment and student services.
Before Wesleyan Village was built in 2002, Danter Student Housing Research did a feasibility study to determine the advantages of apartment-style dorms.

“They said ‘we think that we could have occupancy of 85 percent in Wesleyan Village,’” Alexander said. “We opened the facility, and we have never been at 85 percent.”

Wesleyan Village holds 260 beds.

Alexander said Jeffcoat also suggested turning Wesleyan Village into the scholarship dorms, which poses new problems.

“Apparently there’s not one answer, there’s a combination,” Alexander said. “We need a group of experts to say, ‘This is what we think.’”

The board of trustees will read the consultants’ report at a meeting March 23.

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