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Summer Housing!
WANT TO LIVE ON CAMPUS THIS SUMMER?!
Carroll has a limited number of rooms over the summer period. To qualify for summer housing, a student has to either be enrolled in summer school or working at least 60 hours a month for the college. A student will be charged an upfront fee of $30 a week (or $100 a month) for summer housing. Sign ups will be on a first come qualifying basis until housing is full, at which point a waitlist will be started. Any Carroll student may apply for summer housing. If you don't meet the two criteria and still wish to live on campus for the summer, the rate is $110 a week or ($400/month). These spots will only be available after priority housing is complete. Students who fail to work 60 hours in a month or who are not in school will pay the rate of $110 a week or ($400/month). Those students who are working on campus will need to sign a waiver to have the housing fee's come out of their monthly check. All other students will need to pay upfront.
SUMMER HOUSING PRIORITY SIGN-UPS will be April 2nd and 3rd from 11:00am-1:00pm in the Cube. If you have any questions please contact Scott Forthofer at x5509 or sforthofer -is-at- carroll -dot- edu.
WANT TO LIVE ON CAMPUS NEXT YEAR?!
If you would like to live on campus next year and missed the housing sign-up day on March 1, please stop by the student life office or call x4531.
HOUSING PRICES
St. Charles, Borromeo, and Guadalupe Halls 2008-2009 (per semester)
- Double-occupancy room $1,764
- Single-occupancy room St.Ch/Guad $1,974
- Single-occupancy room Borromeo $1,764
- Triple-occupancy room $1,764
Trinity Hall 2008-2009
- Four-person suite, Single bedrooms $1,974
- Two-person suite, Super-single bedrooms $2,205
- Four-person suite, Double Bedrooms $1,764
MEAL PLANS 2008-2009
Available to ALL Students
1. Unlimited Access A plan....................................... $1831/Semester
Unlimited Access Meal Plan to All Meal Periods Plus $100 Flex
2. Unlimited Access B Plan ...................................... $1673/ Semester
All Meal Periods Except Late Night Plus $50 Flex
Default for Guadalupe, St. Charles & Borromeo students that don't choose a meal plan
3. The 225 Block Meal Plan ............................................. $1831/Semester
225 Block Meals Plus $275 Flex
4. The 175 Block Meal Plan ..........................................$1673/Semester
175 Block Meals Plus $375
Available to 3rd, 4th, and 5th year Students and Commuters
*Gold Plan........................................................... $1025/ Semester
110 Block Meals Plus $210 Flex
Default for Trinity students that don't choose a meal plan
*Silver Plan......................................................... $611/Semester
64 Block Meals Plus $165
*Bronze Plan...................................................... $611/Semester
32 Block Meals Plus $365 Flex
Carroll Preparedness for Serious Incidents and Emergencies
Carroll continuously reviews their Incident Management Protocols, which are revised annually resulting in a new edition being published for each academic year.
In preparation of the upcoming 2007-2008 academic year edition of the Incident Management Protocols, Carroll conducted a campus-wide exercise of the "Security Lock Down of Campus Buildings" during the last week of May. The goal was to allow key personnel to rehearse each of their roles in the protocol and to identify areas that need to be corrected. This protocol is currently being revised based upon feedback on the exercise.
With the recent tragedy at Virginia Tech, it is important for you to also know that Carroll has a "Dangerous and Disruptive Student Policy" that has been in effect for the past two years. The purpose of the policy is to ensure students receive the assistance they may need (mental health and otherwise) due to negative behaviors exhibited or threats made. This policy has been implemented with positive results a number of times the past two years. The "Dangerous and Disruptive Student Policy" is located on pages 115-118 of the Student Handbook.
LIVE ON CAMPUS AT CARROLL COLLEGE !
Living on campus is an integral part of the education experience at Carroll College, be part of an exciting residential campus.
With a new staff, new attitude and fresh energy, Community Living is dedicated to student success.
Community Living staff assists students in learning how to live in community on a residential campus. The friendships and life experiences developed by living on campus provide students with many unexpected benefits that positively impact the academic, occupational, recreational, spiritual, mental and emotional maturity of students. Students learn by daily practice how to develop healthy eating, sleeping, study and social habits. For these reasons, students are required to live in college housing for their first two years of college and are encouraged to live all four years in college housing.
To promote a positive living and learning environment, Community Living is responsible for educational programming, group activity advising, leadership development, student conduct, peer counseling, housing administration and resource referral for students. A Community Advisor (CA), a student paraprofessional trained to address the needs of students, lives on residence hall floors. An Assistant Director of Community Living, a master's degree-level professional trained in hall administration, community development and staff supervision supports each residence hall.
VALUE OF AN EDUCATION
In case you missed it, there was a piece that aired on “Marketplace,” a daily program that runs on National Public Radio (NPR) stations across the country. The commentary offers some on the value of college tuition. It can be found online at http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2007/01/30/AM200701302.html
TEXT OF COMMENTARY
MARK AUSTIN THOMAS: Do you remember when you applied for college? Maybe you just applied to a few schools, you know, the ones you really wanted to get into. Back then the cost of an application was probably only around $25. Now it's up to $100 a pop. Yikes. Not only that, but today students want to apply to a lot of schools so it really adds up quickly. Then they get accepted and the bills just never seem to stop. So, is this all money down the drain or dollars well spent? Jake Schrum is a college president so you can guess what he thinks.
JAKE SCHRUM: Try to put your 17-year-old up in an Embassy Suites or any other moderately-priced hotel for 240 nights a year, the length of an average year in college.
You'd pay about $24,000 for the year, and all you'd get is a room, linen and maid service, and maybe a free continental breakfast.
What else would your son or daughter get for the hard-earned $24,000 you spent on a 240-day hotel stay? In a word, nothing.
No professors to teach them. No science labs or libraries. No music instructors. No technology centers. No tutoring or other help when they can't figure out calculus, write a coherent sentence, or parse a differential equation.
No help with finding a job or career placement and training. No coaches or lush green recreational fields.
But that's what a one-year package of tuition room and board costs at a good university.
If you had to actually buy all those things on top of renting your Embassy Suites room, you'd begin to appreciate it.
It's a deal even at a top private university that can cost as much as $45,000 a year.
Then consider what students, families, politicians demand of colleges and universities.
They insist that senior professors teach undergraduates and get upset when lower-paid graduate students stand in.
They want classes to be small. And they want campuses to have state-of-the-art facilities and technologies.
In other words, they desire — and insist on — the very things that make a college education more expensive.
At the same time, they complain bitterly that college costs too much.
But that investment buys students an education that will earn them at least a million dollars more during their lifetimes than their friends who didn't go to college.
Now, think about that.
THOMAS: Jake Schrum is president of Southwestern University University. It's a private liberal arts college in Georgetown, Texas, Texas. And in Los Angeles, I'm Mark Austin Thomas. Thanks for joining us. Have a great day.