1. Occupancy Management: It’s More Than You Think
Janis Haney – Associate Director Jose Valenciano – Assistant Director

2. Principals of Occupancy Management
Planning
Recruitment
Retention
Student Service Strategies

3. Challenges Economic Issues Too many students do not know about money
Lack of Financial resources
Diversity or lack of
Minority climate on campus

4. Learning Communities Groupings Learning Communities Gender Building
(50% of the traditional beds at Texas Tech)
Groupings
Learning Communities
Gender
Building
Available Space Count
Any spaces
Spaces for roommates

5. Marketing Branding Informational materials
Own your Brand (What is it??)
Techify and Swoosh!
ALWAYS Red & Black at Tech
Design vs. Message (or Message vs. Design)
Use actual pictures of students & families!
Use your mascot and take it to another level

7. It begins with PRS Planning
Room allocations
Plan to utilize Temporary spaces
By gender
By suite / apartment
For overflow
Gender overflow spaces
For emergencies
Roommates issues
Provisional Students
Bed bugs, etc.
Admission based on summer school effort
CAs with roommates
Plan order of assignment
Restrict Self-select options as needed
Extra compensation
Controls gender issues
Limits returners

8. Utilizing Reports Admissions Office Weekly Monthly
For historical trends / projections

10. Utilizing Reports Orientation registrants Registered attendees
Verify attendees without housing assignments
Weekly Reservations Reports
Capture trends
Plan for gender neutral space usage

11. Utilizing Reports Weekly Reservations Reports Capture trends
Plan for gender neutral adjustments

13. Reserved Percentages by Year

17. Recruitment Events Admitted Student days
Significant draw to the campus
Roadshow events
Go to their backyard
Take Colleges and support staff
Daily Campus tours
Campus
Housing
Insist Housing tells their own story

22. Challenges Competition from other schools Junior Colleges too
Financial impediments
Deferrals

23. Move in Completes the Cycle

24. Go Tech!