Task Force Update: August 2023

The Neighborhoods Task Force is building a research, discussion, and decision-making process to help each of our task force members learn more about how the assignment, reassignment, neighborhood configuration, and community building processes work today for undergraduates.

• Building greater awareness and understanding across the task force
• Preparing background materials for discussions and decisions in the fall quarter
• Relooking at the report and feedback from the initial ResX work
• Gathering feedback from students, professional staff, RFs, and alumni

Task Force Answering Key Questions

As part of the task force’s summer preparation work, the group has been focused on studying changes enacted to date and examining how best to help students answer three key questions: 

1. Where will I live? 
2. Who will I live with? 
3. What will I experience? 

The task force will use focus groups and surveys to gather input from students, professional staff, RFs, and alumni to inform its work, and a set of discussion and decision meetings throughout the fall quarter will help the task force form scenarios to prepare for the final report to be delivered in early December. Faculty and staff can share thoughts here. Students will be invited to participate in focus groups and surveys this fall.

Small groups of task force members are also starting to work on briefing materials to use as pre-reading before discussions start actively in September. Through three main discussions and a wide range of topics, the group will debate the pros, cons, and unanswered questions associated with a wide range of scenarios and potential changes.