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Maple Hill students petition to change residence hall policy
Lindsey J. Pruitt
Issue date: 10/3/07 Section: News
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"Any time a new program is implemented there will be bugs, but with this program we want to achieve a comfortable, academic community for freshmen and sophomores that will have a positive impact on their development," said Randy Alexander, director of UA Housing.
The goal of the Maple Hill program is to enhance the likelihood that freshmen and sophomores will have a positive and productive university experience as measured by academic success, persistence through graduation and satisfaction with their residence hall and university experience, according to an e-mail sent out Aug. 16 by Alexander in response to questions concerning Maple Hill requirements.
The requirements for students living in Maple Hill include the use of online survey StrengthsQuest, campus and community service involvement, participation in faculty-led activities outside the classroom, freshmen attendance at R.O.C.K. Camp, structured one-on-one conversations with RAs, participation in the Freshman Seminar or Sophomore Professional Development Institute, engagement in lesson plans delivered by Academic Success and Citizenship peer staff and involvement in peer-mentoring relationships.
Freshman will be exempt from the PDI requirements, and sophomores are exempt from R.O.C.K. Camp and the Freshman Seminar, according to the UA Housing Web site.
Failure to participate in these requirements will result in expulsion from Maple Hill, according to the Web site.
Upon realizing they had to complete these requirements, some students said they were unhappy.
Freshman, David Benson, said he had a particular problem with the 90-minute Freshmen Seminar, held once a week for eight weeks.
"Most people didn't know about the requirements; I was curious to see when that information came out," he said.
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