Performa consultant Kevin Rolling talks with students about their firm’s master plan for the future of student housing. Consultants visited campus to receive feedback on Performa’s housing ideas. Photo by Amanda Gahler
JACKIE ALBRECHT NEWS EDITOR
Performa consultants were on campus the week of March 23 to deliver preliminary ideas on a student housing master plan and will deliver their final report within the next week, Vice President of Administration Gary Grace said.
Performa, a higher education consulting firm that has been working with Wartburg since January, came to campus to receive comments from students, faculty, staff and administration on Performa’s improvement ideas for student housing.
“They wanted some feedback from us. . . We pretty much know what they are going to suggest,” Grace said.
Grace said Performa offered many ways for Wartburg to make student housing feel more like home because this was a top concern for many students.
“While [students] are certainly concerned with good-quality restrooms and showers they weren’t as important as we thought they might be,” Grace said.
Once Performa delivers the final report to Wartburg, Grace said the student housing committee will get together to make sure all of their comments are included and send it to the board for review.
“The board knows student housing is something we need to look at. . . It’s a big enough project at some point that we need to plan carefully enough for it. This will be the first kind of take at what kinds of things we might need to consider,” Grace said.
Student committee member Trevor Carolan said the preliminary ideas from Performa are thorough.
“Performa’s overall proposal is one that has been well thought out by the group and the best interests of the students at Wartburg were taken into account.”