Duke House s : A Residential Redesign

1. Duke Houses: A Residential Redesign

2. Core Principles of Duke Houses • Community:creatingsmaller residentialhousesto build community on West and Central Campuses characterized bythree-class interaction. • Equity: giving both affiliated and unaffiliated students the same residential privileges (right of return, dedicated commons space, stability).

3. Logistics of Duke Houses • Will begin in fall 2012 • Use both West and Central Campuses – Currently, West has 53 houses, Central has 21. • Students will have the right of return to their houses, unless they choose to go abroad. • Sophomores will no longer be guaranteed residence on West. About 25% of the sophomore class will be in houses on Central. • East will continue in essentially the same manner.

4. What is a Duke House? • Our target is for houses to be 50% sophomores, 50% juniors and seniors. • Most houses have between 30-70 members. • Each house will have a commons room. Ideally each will have a kitchen and study room as well – will be pursued over time. • Each house will have a self governance structure and funds for programming initiatives. • Faculty are being recruited to affiliate with houses. Ambition is for each Duke House to have 1-2 faculty associated with it. • Ideally each house will offer a “progression of housing options”; being pursued, but will take some time. • We expect Duke Houses to develop their own character, identity, and traditions

5. Duke Houses – Room Assignments Year One for Unaffiliated Students • Assignment Process (Basic Elements) • Rising seniors will complete room selection as in previous years. Caps will be placed on each house, limiting the number of seniors to 25-30% overall occupancy. • Rising juniors and rising sophomores will be randomly assigned to houses to meet junior/sophomore occupancy expectation. • Blocks and roommate requests will be maintained. Maximum block size will be six students • Room selection process facilitated by HDRL staff member, potentially using class and/or lottery number.

6. Duke Houses – Room Assignments Year Two for Unaffiliated Students • In the second year, only rising sophomores will be assigned – process to be developed. Rising juniors and seniors will have the right of return. • We expect houses to develop identities over time, and potentially can allow rising sophomores to rank houses most attractive to them. • A transfer process will exist to allow students to request to move from one house to another. • For students returning from abroad, the priority will be to allow student to return to his or her house. • Will continue to face challenge of limited flexibility in accommodating preferences of students returning from abroad.

7. Duke Houses – Placement of SLGs • Selective living groups will be assigned to houses depending on where they best fit. • Four size categories have been created. • Current SLGs have been assigned to a size group based on bed allocation history over the past 3.5 years. • SLGs will be placed into a House in late October using a randomly based process (date TBD). Houses have been identified to be used for each size category. • New SLGs will be placed at the same time. • SLGs will be offered opportunity to preference Central. • No group promised opportunity to remain in current location. • Will expect SLGs to have legitimate junior and senior class representation in their house – understand this will be pursued over time. Some officers will be required to live in the house.

8. Duke Houses – New SLGs • New Selective Living Groups • Applications due September 30 – application available on House Model web site. • Applicants will present to ARC inmid-October. • Recommendations made to Dean and Vice Provost Nowicki and VP Moneta • New SLGs placed in late October during same process to be used for existing SLGs