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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Increase the on-campus housing capacity to at least 60% of the student body.[/quote]

That’s a lot of revenue they’ll recapture and will bring down off campus housing prices.[/quote]

If people are actually willing to move back on campus after a decades long culture of expecting to move off after freshman year. [/quote]

They just changed the housing requirement to 3 years at my DC’s school and built a lot of new dorms. The kids were annoyed, but it really does build community by requiring on campus housing. It also brings down housing costs for off campus rentals. I think it is great. [/quote]

Interesting. I agree it’s a good thing but let’s be honest, kids go to JMU to party, not sing songs around the fireplace in the dorm. Being off campus allows underage kids to more easily party. [/quote]

JMU is no more of a party school than UVA or VT; my kid has friends at all 3 and there is plenty of “fun” to be had if you want it at all 3

I know folks in northern VA really want JMU to be a “bad” school because of its higher acceptance rate but would you call Indiana a bad school? Just wondering….

JMU has excellent undergraduate teaching and excellent career outcomes so I don’t really understand the looking down at it

And by the sounds of it the plan is to be more selective than VT in the future which I 100% see happening

And the plan isn’t the ACC IYKYK….also trying to pair VT athletics with UVA is laughable [/quote]

Nobody said JMU is bad. On the other hand, why would you think being more selective is something to aspire to?[/quote]

People on this thread have alluded to it being on par with a community college and a place for under performing kid who want a “ traditional” college like experience.  Frankly it is insulting [/quote]

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