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Artist’s rendering of Riverview Apartments

Riverview

A five-building complex has been built as a collaboration between a developer and the University of Rochester. Immediately across the Genesee River from the River Campus, the two and four bedroom apartments will be available only to University students, and will be managed by Residential Life. In addition to helping meet the growing housing needs for the campus, these apartments provide a type of transitional living that is increasingly sought by students—an integrated connection with campus life, yet with features of independent apartment living particularly attractive to more senior students.

Managing Growth

Our plan entails a significant expansion of the College. Over a ten year period we expect our faculty to grow from about 320 to about 400, the number of PhD students to increase from about 900 to over 1,100 and the number of undergraduates to grow from about 4,000 to about 5,000. We are also planning to introduce new master's and post-baccalaureate programs that will bring perhaps 300 additional students to campus. There will be a commensurate growth in the size of our staff.

We foresee this growth proceeding steadily and almost uniformly over the course of the next ten years. Our faculty will grow by about 8 per year, and the size of our entering freshman class by about 30 students each year. We will maintain our current ratio of students:faculty. This growth calls for significant investment in new space.

Academic Infrastructure

Our provisional assessment is that we will need at least 80,000 net square feet of new academic space. Because it is infeasible to provide modern science facilities through the renovation of old buildings, new construction is likely to be focused on science space. The broad distribution of disciplines embraced by our initiatives means that we are likely to need space in every academic department. We therefore need to consider moving whole departments and grouping them more coherently to make optimal use of space.

Residential Life

Having a residential campus is central to our identity, and provides for an exceptionally rich undergraduate experience. About 80% of our undergraduates live on campus. Growth in the number of undergraduates, plus the increase in the number of students in master's and post-baccalaureate programs, means that we will need to provide housing for at least 800 more students. Some of that will be provided by the new Riverview development (see box), but we will need to develop more. We are eager to foster the development of a College Town, so we will want to consider carefully what emphasis to place on additional campus housing vs. housing of the type represented by Riverview.

Investments already planned for dining services will increase our capacity by approximately 400 students, so growth will require us to provide for 600 more undergraduates, and additional graduate students. This would require at least one new dining facility.