A growing enrollment at Eastern Kentucky University also means housing students is a priority. EKU President David McFaddin said all beds in residence halls are filled, adding that everyone who wanted a room assignment got one. A renovated Keene Hall is scheduled to come back online next fall with 600 beds. McFaddin said that will trigger a series of dorm renovations.
“We are looking at taking Burnam, Sullivan, and Palmer in stages…they won’t all be offline at the same time. But, we’re looking at probably a kind of three to five-year window of taking all or parts of those buildings offline to do some significant renovations to those buildings as well,” said McFaddin.
The EKU president said a request for proposal will be put out this fall for a firm to help develop a master plan. McFaddin said that plan would examine any potential need for a new residence hall on the Richmond campus.
“If you get out in our community we realize that housing is not as abundant as it once was both for single-family and for multi-tenant apartment-style living…so there’s definitely a demand for housing,” said McFaddin.
McFaddin said at the beginning of the first week of classes Monday there were 4660 available beds. And he said there are 4660 heads on beds at week's end.
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