UCLA student housing

Hedrick Summit was built in 2005

Student housing at the University of California, Los Angeles is governed by two separate departments, the Office of Residential Life and Housing and Hospitality Services, and provides housing for both undergraduates and graduate students, on and off-campus.

Undergraduate

Rieber Court is surrounded by Terrace, Vista, and Hall.

Undergraduate housing for over 9,500 residents is spread across 14 complexes on a ridge on the western side of the campus called "the Hill."^[1] Current housing provides student living in traditional-style residence halls, suites, or plazas. All three configurations provide differing values of social interactivity, noise level, and privacy.^[1] Student life on the Hill is under the care of the Office of Residential Life (ORL). Dining facilities include four restaurants and four boutique-style eateries. At Bruin Cafe, adjacent to Sproul Hall, students can order sandwiches, smoothies, and The Coffee Bean beverages. Rendezvous, in the Rieber Terrace building, provides a mix of Mexican and Asian food choices. De Neve Late Night serves classic burgers and a variety of gourmet hot dogs. Cafe 1919 offers a Mediterranean-themed menu including pizzas, salads, and panini sandwiches. Currently, incoming first-year students are guaranteed three years of on-campus housing and incoming transfer students are guaranteed one year of housing. The Housing Master Plan aims to guarantee housing to all undergraduates for four years by 2010.^[2]

Undergraduate housing is divided into three classifications: Halls, Plazas, and Suites. Halls are traditional high-rise dormitories, with students grouped by floors, sharing a gender-specific bathroom with 40-50 others. Plazas are more private, with the same general amenities as Halls, but students have private baths or share one with another room. Suites are standalone units supporting 4-6 students, with private bathroom and living space.^[1] According to the Daily Bruin, 1,525 beds, 10 faculty in-residence apartments and a 750-seat dining hall will be built on the Northwest Housing Infill Project on the Hill by 2013. De Neve Gardenia and De Neve Holly Ridge will be built west of De Neve Plaza, while Sproul Cove and Sproul Landing will use unused landscape areas near the Sproul parking lots and below Rieber Hall.^[3]

Halls

The first building dedicated to housing is Hershey Hall, named after Almira Hershey who donated $300,000 in the 1930s to have the dorm built.^[4] There are currently four residence halls on campus: Dykstra, Hedrick, Rieber, and Sproul.

• Dykstra Hall (pronounced /ˈdaɪkstrə/) is the oldest high-rise residential hall, built in 1959. In 1960, Dykstra became one of the first co-ed dormitories in the country.^[5]
• Hedrick Hall (/ˈhɛdrɪk/)
• Rieber Hall (/ˈriːbər/)
• Sproul Hall (/ˈspraʊl/)

Plazas

Desk and bed area of a room in Hedrick Summit

The five plazas are De Neve (/dəˈnɛv/) Plaza, Rieber Vista, Rieber Terrace, Hedrick Summit, and Sunset Village.

Suites

The Hitch and Saxon Suites are individual complexes with separate suites for each group of students. Each suite room houses 4 or 6 students, with private bathrooms and a living space. A complex comprises several buildings sharing a laundry room and several recreational amenities. Because of the limited occupancy of the suites, they provide for a small percentage of all students who live on campus, and are a rare assignment for first-year students, whose assignments are made almost totally at random.

Graduate

Roughly 3,000 graduate students live in one of six UCLA-owned apartment complexes or communities. As of 2007, UCLA housed 26% of its graduate and professional students^[6].

Hilgard House and Weyburn Terrace provide housing for single students. The other graduate units, located south of the 405 Freeway, provide family housing.^[7]

• Weyburn Terrace. In 2002, the university began constructing Phase 1 of Weyburn Terrace, a seven building apartment community with 1,387 beds, in order to recruit top graduate students from around the world ^[8]. Previously, there had been no university-operated graduate housing on or near the main campus since the demolition of a graduate student-only dorm damaged by the 1994 Northidge earthquake. The project suffered numerous delays, but was fully completed before the Fall 2005 term^[9]. Weyburn Terrace enables UCLA to provide housing to approximately fifty percent of incoming graduate and professional students. It also served as housing for displaced Tulane University law students who visited at UCLA during the Fall semester following Hurricane Katrina. A limited number of units are available with furniture for an additional fee. ^[10]. The buildings in Weyburn Terrace are all named after trees: Aloe, Magnolia, Sycamore, Palm, Jacaranda, Cypress, and Olive.^[11].
• Hilgard Houses. Hilgard Houses apartments consist of two complexes located on the east edge of campus on Hilgard Avenue. Each three-story building has a central courtyard, laundry room, and subterranean parking. All 81 units are furnished studio apartments with full kitchens. The Hilgard Houses apartments are 100% smoke-free in order to maintain the indoor air quality and only non-smokers will be allowed to live there.^[12] The Hilgard Houses complex is for single students.^[13]
• University Village. University Village provides student community living for married students, same-sex domestic partners and single parents. Units consist of unfurnished one-, two- and three-bedrooms. It is reserved for family use.^[14]
• Rose Avenue Apartments. Rose Avenue has 93 unfurnished units, primarily two-bedroom, located across from the University Village complex. Two-bedroom apartments are approximately 870 square feet (81 m²).^{[citation needed]} The complex was not built specifically to house families, but families may reside here.^[14]
• Keystone/Mentone. Keystone/Mentone, located in Palms, is a 244-unit complex contains one- and two-bedroom unfurnished apartments.^{[citation needed]} The complex was not built specifically to house families, but families may reside here.^[14]
• Venice/Barry. The Venice/Barry apartments is a 140-unit building containing unfurnished junior one-bedroom, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments.^{[citation needed]} The complex was not built specifically to house families, but families may reside here.^[14]

The complexes which permit families are zoned to the Los Angeles Unified School District.^[15]

• The Keystone-Mentone complex is zoned to Palms Elementary School, Palms Middle School, and Hamilton High School.^[16]
• Rose Avenue is zoned to Charnock Road Elementary School, Palms Middle School, and Venice High School.^[17] Rose Avenue had been rezoned from Hamilton to Venice in 2007.^[18]
• University Village is zoned to Clover Elementary School, Webster Middle School, and Venice High School.^[19]
• Venice-Barry is zoned to Grand View Elementary School, Webster Middle School, and Venice High School.^[20]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Living on Campus". UCLA official site. 2007. http://map.ais.ucla.edu/portal/site/UCLA/menuitem.789d0eb6c76e7ef0d66b02ddf848344a/?vgnextoid=7120064a9a7d1010VgnVCM1000008f8443a4RCRD. Retrieved 2007-08-10. 
2. ^ Ko, Amy (2002). "It's Not Your Parents' Dorm Anymore" UCLA Magazine 8.
3. ^ Noble, Brett (2008-06-04). "Project to increase housing options". Daily Bruin. http://www.dailybruin.com/news/2008/jun/04/project-increase-housing-options/. Retrieved 2008-06-09. 
4. ^ Hershey Hall
5. ^ Ko, Amy (2000). "DeNeve Fosters Living-Learning Community". UCLA Today. Archived from the original on 2007-07-15. http://web.archive.org/web/20070715030315/http://today.ucla.edu/2000/000926deneve.html. Retrieved 2007-08-10. 
6. ^ http://www.housing.ucla.edu/SHMP/SHMP-2017-3.pdf
7. ^ "[http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/asis/library/gqspring10.pdf THE PARENTHOOD ISSUE]." UCLA Graduate Quarterly. (Northern hemisphere) Spring 2010. 5. Retrieved on October 2, 2011.
8. ^ http://www.housing.ucla.edu/SHMP/SHMP-2017-3.pdf
9. ^ http://www.dailybruin.com/articles/2005/8/29/weyburn-terrace-housing-comple/
10. ^ http://map.ais.ucla.edu/go/1004265
11. ^ http://www.housing.ucla.edu/housing_site/news/WeyburnSitePlan.pdf
12. ^ http://map.ais.ucla.edu/go/1001993
13. ^ "Hilgard Apartments." University of California Los Angeles. Retrieved on October 2, 2011.
14. ^ ^{a b c d} "[http://www.parentingstudents.ucla.edu/documents/ParentingStudentsGuidetoUCLA.pdf The Parenting Student’s Guide to UCLA Academic Year 2009-2010]." University of California Los Angeles. 1. Retrieved on October 2, 2011.
15. ^ "School Finder." Los Angeles Unified School District. Retrieved on October 2, 2011.
16. ^ "Keystone-Mentone Apartments." University of California Los Angeles. Retrieved on October 2, 2011. "Location: Keystone/Mentone Apartments 3767-3777 Mentone Avenue 3770-3780 Keystone Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90034"
17. ^ "Rose Avenue Apartments." University of California Los Angeles. Retrieved on October 2, 2011. "Location: Rose Avenue Apartments 11140 & 11130 Rose Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90034"
18. ^ "Proposed Changed to Hamilton High School Area Schools". Laschools.org. http://web.archive.org/web/20080309020617/http://www.laschools.org/employee/mpd/fs-mpd/download/07-08_webmaps/Proj04.pdf. Retrieved April 3, 2011. 
19. ^ "University Village Apartments." University of California Los Angeles. Retrieved on October 2, 2011. "Location University Village 3200 Sawtelle Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90066"
20. ^ "Venice-Barry Apartments." University of California Los Angeles. Retrieved on October 2, 2011. "Venice/Barry Apartments 11811 Venice Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90066"

External links

• UCLA Housing Website