Ernest Broderick, left, and Andre Yates, both employees of UTC’s housing department, move boxes of mailboxes off a truck in front of the Stagmaier building Wednesday. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is prepping dorm rooms for the return of students to the campus.UTC MOVE IN* Freshmen: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. for those living in the Chattanooga Choo Choo hotel.* Upperclassman: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. for those living in the Chattanooga Choo Choo hotel.Source: UTC
Resident halls at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga have already reached their limits – and the new school year hasn’t even officially begun.
“We already know our enrollment has outpaced our current resident hall capacity,” said Chuck Cantrell, associate vice chancellor for communication and marketing at UTC. “We’re already looking at funding and property placement for new facilities.”
The university has made moves to help accommodate this growth, renovating Stagmaier Hall to house about 140 of the almost 3,600 students expected to reside at UTC this fall.
Stagmaier was built as a dormitory but was converted into offices following a move away from the traditional dorm layout to apartment-style campus housing. Because of the recent growth in enrollment, however, and requests by students to return to more traditional dorms, the building was restored to campus housing, Cantrell said.