The total number of students attending Plattsburgh State has been steadily increasing since fall 2005, with an overall increase of 400 students according to records from the office of institutional research.
In addition, there has also been a steady increase in the number of students living in single rooms on campus.
“Students would love to have singles,” Bryan Hartman, director of residence life, said.
There are 97 singles on campus, he said, and they are primarily occupied by students who have medical needs verified by the health center.
Hartman said although there has been an increase in enrollment numbers, “there is a deliberate effort to not allow enrollment to increase. It wasn’t our goal to grow and exceed our target.”
Along with the 97 singles open to anyone on campus, there are 45 singles in Adirondack Hall set aside for seniors only.
“They are actually doubles as singles,” Hartman said. “It is a double room that we set aside for seniors who have a certain amount of credit hours.”
During the spring semester, PSUC usually loses around 200 enrolled students. Those who are left with a vacancy in a double room are given the option to buy out the open space.
“We communicate clearly to students with vacancies that someone else will be moving in,” Hartman said.
He said the same 45 singles will be available in the Adirondack senior section next year, as well as the 97 other singles in the other dorms.
“The amount of space in the halls determines whether we will rent doubles as singles to anyone,” director of Housing Cathy Moulton said.
“For the first half of the fall semester, we had ‘emergency triples’ (three in a double room), but after they were given a chance to break down into double spaces (and didn’t), we rented a few singles.”
The numbers for students living on versus off campus is generally split 50/50.
Of the 5,500 undergraduate students this past fall, there were roughly 2,767 living on campus — a little more than half the total population.
Hartman said the senior section in Adirondack will no longer offer single rooms during the 2011-12 academic year because of the residence hall master remodeling plan.
The rooms usually available for seniors will be open to all students to make up for the rooms lost in Hood Hall, the first building scheduled for remodeling, which will be closed for renovations.
“The same process as last year will be happening for next year,” Moulton said.
“Students with referrals for medical need will be able to return to their current single, then seniors and grad students (in accumulated-credits order) will get to pick from designed single or Adirondack grad/senior area and Banks apartments.”
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