Florida Institute of Technology housing

Campus housing at Florida Institute of Technology is divided among seven residence halls and one apartment complex and one village suite. There are seven residences in the apartment complex north of Crane Creek. It is common to refer to the Southgate complex as "off campus," because it is separated from the rest of the campus by Babcock Street. Six of the residence halls are located on or near the "Residence Quad."

On-Campus Housing

Apartment Complexes

Southgate

Southgate is an off-campus housing complex owned and operated by the university. Southgate is restricted to upperclassmen and offers studio and one bedroom apartments as well as two and three bedroom apartments. The original Southgate buildings (A through H) were owned by the City of Melbourne as public housing. The university purchased these buildings to be used as additional student housing when the number of enrolled students continued to increase. Shorthly thereafter the school then constructed the three story buildings K, L, and M. Prior to the construction of Skurla Hall, the offices of the School of Aeronautics and the Department of Athletics were located in 'A' Building, the only building on the north side of Southgate Blvd. 'A' Building has since converted back to student apartments. The Southgate Apartment complex also has one of Florida Tech's two swimming pools for student use. The pool was constructed prior to the school's ownership of the complex. Originally an inground hot tub was included next to the pool in the northwest corner of the site, but was filled in and used as a landscaped area during the school's ownership. During the summer of 2003 the entire pool was refurbished with new concrete and a pool bottom. During this refurbishment, the old hot tub was covered over with the concrete of the new pool deck.

Columbia Village Suites

Originally to be named Crane Creek Suites, they were renamed on October 28, 2003 to the Columbia Village Suites to honor the fallen crew members of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. The 7 residence buildings, plus one commons building are located in the northeast part of the campus, north of Crane Creek. As of the Fall 2008 semester, these suites are restricted to freshmen students.
* Husband Hall - Colonel Rick D. Husband, USAF, Commander
* McCool Hall - Commander William C. McCool, USN, Pilot
* Anderson Hall - Lt. Col Michael P. Anderson, USAF, Payload Commander
* Ramon Hall - Colonel Ilan Ramon, IAF, Payload Specialist
* Chawla Hall - Kalpana Chawla, Mission Specialist
* Brown Hall - Captain David M. Brown, USN, Mission Specialist
* Clark Hall - Commander Laurel Clark, USN, Mission Specialist

South Village Suites

The expansion and establishment of South Village at Florida Tech's south side of its main Melbourne campus is currently in progress. Three new buildings are currently being constructed and the university has projected the completion date of the construction project to be able to accommodate students in Fall 2008. [ [http://oxblue.com/pro/open/?webPath=mhwilliams Florida Tech South Village Construction Cam] Realtime updates of South Village Construction. Accessed 12 JAN 2008.] Florida Tech is currently considering renaming South Village "Harris Village" after a substantial donation from Harris Corporation in 2008.

Residence Halls

Roberts Hall

Restricted to freshmen, Roberts Hall is a coeducational residence hall. It is seven stories tall, and also serves as the headquarters for WFIT, a radio station on campus, though not run by the school (WCRR, located in Grissom Hall, is the student run [AM/internet] radio station).

Wood Hall

Wood Hall is a formerly all male residence hall situated in the "Residence Quad". Wood Hall is one of several designated first year areas on campus It is named after Virginia Wood, a founder of Melbourne Village, Florida who gave the University of Melbourne $50,000 in 1954. In 2005 dollars, that is nearly $350,000.

Campbell Hall

Campbell Hall is another residence hall situated in the Residence Quad. It is designed for first-year as well as upperclassmen students.

Shaw Hall

Shaw Hall once was an all female residence hall in the Residence Quad. It is now co-ed on all three floors. It is also a designated first year area. The Campus Security Department is situated in the center of the building on the first floor, accessible from the rear of the building.

Evans Hall

Evans Hall is restricted to upperclassmen. The top two floors are rooms for students. The second floor is Evans Dining Hall, and the bottom floor has Campus Services, the Rathskellar, and the Black Kats Café (Formerly a pub or bar, now a coffee shop; when Evans Hall opened, the bottom floor had bowling lanes, which were replaced by a game room by 1980). Named for Florence (Flossy) Evans, the wife of citrus farmer John Evans, for which the Library is named after. Jerome Keuper approached John Evans for donations for a new library. He left his estate to the University. The proceeds of the sale of his land funded the construction of the Evans Library. The land was sold to the DeBartolo Group, which built the Melbourne Square Mall on the land. The road to the west of the mall is named after the Evans family.

Brownlie Hall

Brownlie Hall is located on Country Club Road across from the rest of the Residence Quad. Each room has its own bathroom. The hall also has a pool and laundry facilities for its residents. It is named after V. C. Brownlie who donated 40 acres to the University of Melbourne. The residence hall sits on a portion of his donated land and is the oldest of the dormitories.

Grissom Hall

Grissom Hall is located in the Residence Quad and mainly houses international students enrolled in the ELS program. The first floor and third floor west wing of Grissom are classrooms. Grissom Hall's basement houses the Crimson (Florida Tech Newspaper), WCRR (College Run Radio), FITV, as well as a classroom.

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