Peter Gatto Talks Expanding UNLV Housing, Building Living-Learning Communities, and Advancing Student Preparedness

Dr. Sammie Scales interviews Peter Gatto, Director for Housing and Residential Life at UNLV. Gatto details his 16-year career in student affairs, highlighting his recent positions at Lamar University and FIU. His vision for UNLV involves expanding housing capacity to 5,000 beds and constructing a new first-year residence hall within 3-5 years. Plans include implementing themed communities as living-learning environments, increasing faculty presence, and launching the "Rebel Learning Lounge." Additionally, Gatto emphasizes emergency preparedness, citing past incidents at UNR and Lamar, and the importance of rapid response to student needs.

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Dr. Sammie L. Scales

Dr. Sammie Scales serves is the Assistant Director for Student Diversity Programs (SDP) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), where he leads initiatives focused on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). Dr. Scales earned his joint doctoral degree in Education with a specialization in Teaching and Culture from San Diego State University (SDSU) and Claremont Graduate University (CGU) in 2020, showcasing his commitment to understanding educational dynamics within diverse cultural contexts. His academic journey also includes a bachelor’s and master’s degree in English, both from SDSU, with a focus on Children’s Literature. Beyond the confines of traditional academia, Dr. Scales has made a significant impact as a lecturer at SDSU, where he imparted knowledge across a spectrum of subjects including Cultural Studies, History, English, History from a Black Perspective, and First Year Experience (FYE) classes. His pedagogical approach transcends conventional methodologies, viewing the classroom as a platform for sparking inquiry, engaging in dialogue, and nurturing practices that foster individual, group, and community success. A tireless advocate for equity-minded education, Dr. Scales ensures that his classrooms exemplify inclusivity and embrace students from diverse backgrounds and identities. Recognizing the transformative power of diversity, he prepares students to thrive within the vibrant tapestry of a heterogeneous learning community. Throughout each academic term, Dr. Scales actively cultivates an environment of openness and collaboration, fostering understanding and solidarity among students. As the Interim Assistant Director of Student Diversity Programs at UNLV, he continues to champion DEI initiatives, driving forward the university’s commitment to creating an environment where every individual feel valued, respected, and empowered to succeed.

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Dr. Sammie Scales 0:20
Hello, hello, UNLV. Welcome back students to fall 2025 we're excited to have you back here on campus, and we're excited to start our podcast back today. We have a very special guest, and I'm really happy that he's here today and can make the time for us to appear here on the podcast. I'm going to have my guest introduce himself.

Peter Gatto 0:37
Hello, everyone. Peter Gatto, Director for Housing and Residential Life here at UNLV, I've been here for about three years. Since August of 22 I've had a wonderful experience. Thus far, I've been in the field of student affairs for about 16 years now. Dr scales, you can imagine Time moves quickly. I've worked at various institutions across the United States, you know, small private, public institutions, and I got into this sort of area. My mother was a professor, taught Spanish for many, many years. So I grew up essentially on a college campus back in Cleveland, Ohio, where is where I'm originally from, born and raised, huge sports fan. Love my Cleveland Browns and love my Cleveland Cavaliers, so still following those folks. But as I mentioned, just moved from various institutions, primarily in housing. So that's kind of where I have a very strong background the majority of my experience. And I just came prior to 22 I was at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, serving as the Director for housing Residence Life. And then I don't want to admit this on this particular podcast, but I did work at you and our university of atta Reno for about four years, and I was the assistant director for Housing Residential Life, primarily in the academic area, academic initiatives and things of that nature, and then just kind of moved around. As I mentioned, I was at Florida International University in Miami, Florida for a couple years in housing upstate New York, at Siena College. So I've been very fortunate just in terms of the types, the various types of experiences that I have, and I think that's kind of led to who I am as a professional today and the director I am today here at UNLV, and I do have some family in the area, which definitely is a plus. I've always wanted to work at UNLV, even when I was in Reno, and the family was trying to convince me to come down here. So when I saw this opportunity present itself, I had to throw my name into the hat, and fortunately, I landed the opportunity. So it's been a great ride. Thus far, we've done a lot of work, and I have a phenomenal team that supports everything that we do in Housing and Residential Life, and then we have just our campus partners have been phenomenal. I mean, you know that just from all the things we've we've collaborated on, and it's just been, it's been an outstanding experience thus far.

Dr. Sammie Scales 3:08
That's excellent. So in essence, you've been around education all of your life, with your mother being a professor, teaching Spanish, and, of course, you know, going through elementary, middle, high school yourself and working in it as an adult off your adult life. So you're well qualified for this.

Peter Gatto 3:20
Yes, very, very fortunate. And as I mentioned, I also, you know, the family that I have here is also a teacher here at one of the high schools. So it's in the blood, I think, Dr scale. So, you know, I think there's the role that I'm in has provided me, you know, I get the educational aspect, some of the business aspects, some of student development. So it really has all the areas that I think, where my strengths lie. So,

Dr. Sammie Scales 3:44
excellent, excellent. Well, let's dive into this conversation that we're going to have here, and the reason that we're here today, what's your long term vision for Housing and Residential Life, and how do you see it evolving over the next five years here at unit League? Thank

Peter Gatto 3:57
you for asking that. I think you know, my first year coming in, I needed to kind of assess where the department was at, you know, familiarizing myself with UNLV, how things work, you know, the mission, the goals, the priorities, and really figuring out where we're at, to build that vision as to where we're going to go. You know, I have a very supportive leadership in place, Dr Keith Roger, Vice President for Student Affairs, and Dr meno cantino, our Associate Vice President for Student Affairs, have been tremendously helpful, navigating the vision, and it's been a collaborative effort. You know, right now I have my sort of large, long term goals. We want to reach, eventually, 5000 beds. It's going to take some time, but as we see the student population increase across the institution, we're going to need those beds. So when I when I think about short term and I think about what we can do now, one of the initiatives is to build a new first year housing residence hall. The hope is that'll be within the next few years. Three to four years, maybe five. And so that's a big part of kind of where we're going. I want to see in, you know, in that space, I want to see all of the resources that our students need. You know, we have a lot of competitors, obviously, at other institutions and around the area, a lot of them have all the bells and whistles, and all the things that the students want. And so part of that vision, or long term plan is assessing, you know, what do the students want in 2025 I think, you know, at post covid and pre covid look a little bit different. And so, you know, when we create this strategic housing plan, we have to take all that into account. And you know, we talked a little bit earlier about some of the great programming we're doing, and we want to be very strategic, make data driven decisions and making sure what we're delivering is what the students want, right? And you know, that includes the physical nature also, you know, what, what does the building offer? What are the spaces look like? And the programming, of course, is critical. So it's, you know, all that has to be taken into account. I think we've got a nice blueprint for the future. I'm excited about the new spaces and where the program is going to go.

Dr. Sammie Scales 6:11
That is actually, you know, you touched on a few things that definitely stood out to me. And that is when you said your first year, you have to actually assess and see what the school where UNLV was. So, of course, you know, UNLV is different from any institution that I've been a part of, and my last institution is San Diego. State is definitely different than UNLV, so taking that time to actually learn the culture and the environment is definitely important. And you spoke about having a really great supporting team with Dr Roger and Dr DMC. So having that support, man is awesome, and it's great, and definitely can help move your vision forward. You did speak about new buildings being being built here on campus, so that was one of the things I was going to ask as well. So you did touch on that the new buildings coming up for the FYE. So how do you plan to enhance the students residential experience here at UNLV, particularly in the area of academic and community engagement.

Peter Gatto 7:05
So we have made quite a bit of movement forward already. In the last couple of years, you know, we have 11 themed communities that exist in two of our residence halls, and we've spent a lot of time and effort building out those partnerships with our academic folks and our liaisons that we have. You know, I think we've made some headway. We from a physical standpoint, we kind of renovated those spaces, redid them, make them a little bit more exciting for the students, so that they really show you know what they are when the students get onto the floor, and it really has the type of environment that coincides with their major. For example, our engineering floor, our Honors floor, our study intensive. You know, I know you've helped with Howell town and our Stonewall suite, so, you know, we've made tremendous headway. I think we still have a ways to go. My vision kind of going back to my vision. I want to see those themed communities transition to living learning communities. And when you know, I know those terms sometimes get used interchangeably, depending on what institution you're at. But I want to see you know, more faculty involvement, faculty in residence. I want to see those students on those floors in a cohort taking classes together, yes, and really kind of tightening up that experience so that they can continue to support each other even more than they already are. Again, you know, looking forward to continuing to kind of build on those partnerships with our academic folks. It's going to take all of us to kind of lean into that to make it happen. But you know, statistically, the studies show those that you know, students that do take part in a Living Learning Community, typically, GPAs are higher, persistence is higher, retention is higher, graduate graduation rates are higher. So there's a method to the madness. It works. So, you know, ideally, we want to continue to build on those. Some of the other ones that I don't want to skip over that. I think are pretty big. We have our rebel learning lounge opening up this fall, and that's in partnership with the Academic Success Center. We're going to have tutoring, peer mentoring, academic success coaching, and that'll be at South services and South complex. So again, you know, thinking strategically. They're going to have hours from five to eight, Sunday, Thursday. So we want to have it at times that other services may have kind of closed up for the day. And you know, we know in our residence halls, it's 24/7 and you know, students sometimes need that help, and that's academic support after hours. So we're going to have that opening up, and we're gonna have a grand opening in September as well. So very excited about that. And then, of course, as I mentioned, we assess everything, right? So we're gonna, we want to see what that impact looks like short term, and then longitudinally, over time, students that participate and utilize the rebel learning lounge, how are they doing academically? Is it helping? I'm. Pretty confident it will. So I think, you know, that's a pretty big initiative that we're going to have right here in the residence halls. And I think, you know, one other aspect that I know you and I have talked about, we've talked with our leadership. I've talked with my team, is evening and weekend programming. You know, I think we have an interesting population in terms of it's almost a hybrid, where you have commuter and residential, right? And we would love for our students to be excited to hang out during the week, in the evenings and also on the weekend. So one of my sort of pushes is going to be partnerships with the Student Union and student wellness and rec services and helping building out some collaborative programming that'll create or help enhance that environment where students are going to want to continue to hang out. And, you know, one of the one other aspect that I think is brilliant that was brought to me is kind of opening some of these up to our commuter residents as well our commuter students, right? So, you know, we want all of our students to partake in some of these opportunities. And again, when you kind of go back to, you know that critical four of persistence and retention, you know, students are more engaged. They're more involved. Typically, they do better and they graduate at a higher rate. So the goal across the university is to make sure we're kind of structuring that environment for the

Dr. Sammie Scales 11:22
students. Wow. You know one thing, two things that I want to mention. One is, when we open up that lounge, is it going to be just for students that live in the dorm, or will commuter students be able to use

Peter Gatto 11:32
that? Commuter students will be able to use it as well, and we're going to track that. And you know, we have our gaming lounge in Tonopah complex, which is also for residential and commuter, and it's been open since last year. And so we do track to see, you know, what type of traffic is in there. And we're getting both, you know, big numbers on both. So, you know, the students want these types of things, you know, these types of resources. They want to use them. So kind of, you know, going back, if you build it, they will come sort of mentality, so,

Dr. Sammie Scales 12:04
man, I'm really happy that you mentioned that there's 11 themed communities, and that you brought that conversation up, because literally today, I saw different groups of students on different floors taking pictures next to the wraps on their floor, good. And I saw some of the students over in Stonewall with their parents taking pictures, you know, with the Stonewall signing. So it definitely builds that sense of community and gives them a sense of pride. And I definitely encourage students that does not live on the themed floors to talk to students that are on those floors, to see what life is like on those floors, because I definitely think they would enjoy that. So let's move a little further here into this, into this conversation, how does Housing and Residential Life directly contribute to student academic and success and retention, which I think you've already touched on by talking about the lab. Is there anything else that you would like to elaborate on when it comes to the lab and who's running? I think Gino is running it right.

Peter Gatto 12:58
So Geno, one of our residential life coordinators is going to help run and run the lab, the rebel learning lounge, in collaboration with ASC, you know, I think there's, there's a lot of different things. When you mentioned sort of academic services, you know, support that we have. I mean, some of it's informal, right? So, you know, we have our resident assistants. We have 49 of them. We've got our four masters level Residential Life Coordinator. So when we do training, one of the part of that training is getting them to a place where they're comfortable having conversations about academic resources, you know, little things. I mean, we know we have a lot of students, and it could be first generation, it could be just any student that you know, it's overwhelming, right? You come to school. I know, even for me, it was very overwhelming. I didn't know who to talk to about what. And so our RAs are trained to have those conversations and be able to help navigate the student and guide them to the appropriate resources. And a lot of those are academic resources, as well as well as the Residential Life Coordinator. So, you know, we do pull GPAs at the end of each semester. We look at all the buildings, all of our theme communities, and we try to figure out, you know, are there certain areas that are more successful than others, you know? And if, if there are some some gaps, then that's kind of where we want to put the resources even more and have more outreach to students so that, again, we can kind of get them where they're at. You know, I always tell my staff, you know, the follow through and making sure we've connected with the student is so critical. You know, you don't want it to be too little too late, and there's something that we can do to help guide a student to the appropriate resource. Or, hey, you need to have a conversation with your professor. Or, hey, you know, utilize your professors after hours. Or, you know, use the library, or use math tutoring, whatever that is. So that's kind of where my staff comes in and me as well to make sure that those things are all on the table and they already know who they can talk to about what.

Dr. Sammie Scales 14:59
Yeah. That I think that's excellent. You know, that's one of the things, because my office is actually located over in housing as well. And I'll try to make sure that I maintain relationships with different departments here on campus, with the different professors, so that when students do come to me and say, Hey, I'm hurt, I need help in this particular area, usually I have a contact where I can reach out to to try to, you know, connect them with a professor, to find out what previous students have done to be successful, successful in their particular classes. So can you tell us, in your view, what makes a resident hall more than just a place to sleep for students?

Peter Gatto 15:30
So, you know, I don't want to go too far back in history in terms of what you know, they used to be called dorms, right dormitories, and it was just a place to sleep and grab a bite to eat and, you know, in the cafeteria or whatever term. And it's come a long way over the years. And so we have students, 24/7 obviously. So you're inner mixing personal lives and their day to day routines outside the classroom. So one of the things, and some of the things I've already mentioned, we want to make sure that we have those resources in place to support those out of classroom experiences. So I mean it, you know, it's anything from your schedule, you know, getting up, taking a shower, preparing, being on time for class. You know, following through on your commitments as a student. And again, our RAS do a phenomenal job, kind of keeping an eye out for their communities. If we see a student that may not be engaging, may not be going to class, I have a team there that can intervene and have a conversation and figure out, you know, what is it that you need be successful, right student success. So I think again, when you think historically about what halls were dormitories, I don't necessarily think those types of things were in place. You know, students have have a lot going on personally, right? And so we want to help kind of navigate and, you know, make sure that they're building up those skill sets, right? And those are little things like having a roommate, right? How do I interact with somebody? How do I communicate? What do I do if there's conflict? How do I approach that conversation? How do I, you know, come up with solutions in those types of situations? So these are all the things that, again, my team kind of helps facilitate. And then, you know, obviously that first year is so critical, right? You're moving out of your parents home, or, you know a family member's home, you're on campus, and again, you're trying to figure out what to do. Maybe you've never done your own laundry before, right? That's a big adjustment, as silly as it sounds, so just helping students adapt and acclimate outside the classroom. And again, we have all these wonderful academic programs. We have all these other engagement opportunities that students can partake in, but that's also a big part of the equation is, you know, helping with the soft skills, helping with all the kind of the day to day, the maturation process, right? So the student development goes, like I mentioned, beyond the classroom, and that's where we come in.

Dr. Sammie Scales 17:56
Yeah, excellent. And that's one of the things that I definitely have been paying attention to is, you know, especially once students are leaving home as a freshman, coming to a college campus, staying on campus with a bunch of other people. They've never been away from home before, and there's just so many people here on campus that they can actually connect with. You know, especially when questions arise, just like you mentioned, how to deal with conflict resolution, what do you do in situations where, if you've never done laundry before, who can you go to and say, Hey, how do I do this? How do I operate this machine? So, and I think it's groundbreaking to bring that academic center over to South complex, because no other campus that I've been on have done something like that. Haven't that close and available, and the particular hours that the center is going to be operating for the student so and you know, even times when students get up and let's say if they have have class at 10 o'clock and they're waking up at 930 but you still have enough time to throw something on to make it to class. So I think that's excellent, man. That's one thing about UNLV. Everything is convenient. They try to make sure that that sense of belonging is here on campus, that things are available for students. And most of the departments that I've collaborated with here, and especially here in housing, it's been student centered. Everything is about the students. So I really like that about being here at UNLV. So let's move a little further here. What is some effective ways housing can support first generation and underrepresented students here at UNLV. So

Peter Gatto 19:21
I touched on that a little bit. I think it's engaging early and making sure that those connections, and I was gonna make that comment as you were speaking, but that's a critical, critical part, right? We gotta make those connections out of the gate. You know? We know, if we read our Student Development textbooks from our master's programs that those first six weeks, you know, can make or break a student experience. I think for first generation, is even more critical right to make sure that our those students have have somebody to talk to, if that's a peer mentor, if that's the RA, we need to get to them early and make sure that they understand. You have this huge, you know, group of resources that you can work with. You have people in our office, you have, you know, academic partners, professors, other departments, that are here to help you. And it's, and it's one thing to say, you know, here's an oasis of resources. But if, if you're, you don't know how to get to those resources, or if you're intimidated, or, you know, you're scared, or, you know, even embarrassed, right, to engage in that. That's where we come in. And, you know, we help build that connection as quickly as possible. So philosophically, that's how I kind of think of it is, is really, you know, getting in there early and and developing those relationships from from the jump. And that even includes, I mean, you talked about, you know, the photos and the picture taking, how excited folks are in the game communities and all that. That's part of that, and that's creating that home sort of vibe. And when you have that, you build trust, right? The students trust you, they trust the staff, they trust housing, and then they feel comfortable. Hey, I feel comfortable coming to Dr scales if I need something, or, Hey, I feel comfortable coming to one of the RLC is one of the RAS so you kind of have to nurture that relationship Exactly, right? And it takes time. But when you you know, when I think about first generation students, I think, you know, we have to keep them on the radar even sooner, just so that, you know, they're set up for success.

Dr. Sammie Scales 21:15
Yeah, exactly, you know, it's funny that you said it, because when my office first moved to South complex. The first couple of weeks was kind of shaky, you know, I may get one or two students in, you know, per day, or something like that. But now, even this week, I've had students pop in and say, Oh, I'm glad your office is still here, and so we'll just sit there and laugh and talk. So building that relationship with students with trust, so that they can actually come and talk to you when they actually have a problem. And I always try to encourage them. Also, when I see them in the hallways, you don't have to come to my office just when you have a problem, just come and hang out. I always have water. I have sodas in the refrigerator. Just come and hang out and talk to me. And so some do that. And I'm so happy to be over there to experience that. When students come to my office and talk about how they got a 95 on the test. You know, I didn't know I was going to do well, but I got a 95 so and to see them happy and excited. Man, that's, that's, that's what makes the job

Peter Gatto 22:04
Absolutely, and one of the, one of the things I used to use the term home away or the phrase home away from home, and someone corrected me and said, it could just be home, right? So you have to think about it through that lens, that this may be home, and if it is home, do you have the things in place to help the student, right?

Dr. Sammie Scales 22:20
Absolutely, you know, there are students, you know, like last, this past holiday season of 2024, that stayed on campus because they didn't have a place to go. So yes, in some situations, this is home. This, this is what, what, where they live. So I try to make sure that we're respectful of that, and do everything we can to make it an enjoyable time for them. So let's talk about some of the things that you've learned at some of you, some other universities, or some of that you've you've been a part of that you apply here. Have you learned anything anywhere else, like at Lamar? You and are that you apply and think work well

Peter Gatto 22:50
here? Yes. You know, one of the things that you don't think about every day until it happens is that emergency preparedness, right? Yes. We had a university, Nevada, Reno. And this is 19, 2019 we had two residence halls. We had a gas leak. We had an explosion, right? So we had, fortunately, you know, nothing happened. Nobody was killed, nobody was injured. But we ended up having to move and prep for the in August, for move in. We had to move around 1400 residents to another location in Reno. And as you can imagine, the layers to that in terms of, you know, food access, getting back and, you know, forth to the campus security, you know, there's, there's a ton of stuff that you need to be prepared for. So that was kind of a shock to the system for me on how critical it is to have emergency related preparedness things in place, have things set up, have a structure, have a protocol. In a million years. I never would have thought that I would have experienced something like that. And then, you know, unfortunately, when I moved to Beaumont, Texas, at Lamar University, we had the ice storm. I don't know if you all remember Texas. That was my first two weeks, right? So no electricity, no plumbing, 2400 beds, right? So that was, that was extremely challenging as well, and really navigating and figuring out the types of resources, the communication and so I think when I think about those two things. Unfortunately, we had that event here on the campus. We did already have some stuff in place, and we were able to navigate that the best week we could at time. But those are the types of things that, you know, you ideally don't happen, but they do happen, and you need to be ready. So, you know, when you ask me, you know, what have I learned? That's probably one of the bigger things, is, is being ready. Have a protocol, have procedures. Make sure your staff is trained up. They know what to do. And then, of course, there's always that aftermath. How do you pick up pieces, you know? How do you help the students? How do you make sure that they're able to re acclimate to the community after going through something? So those, those have been pretty. Significant when I think about some of the stuff that, you know, I've gone through, wow,

Dr. Sammie Scales 25:04
you know, it makes me think about, you know, there are things that happen here on campus at UNLV, things like broken elevators or, you know, when you when you have to deal with getting security alarms, broken water mains, whatever the situation is, things happen here on campus. So those are some of the things that students don't have to think about. They just know, hey, if the washer and dryer go out, someone's gonna come and fix it. That's right. They don't worry about that part. So what are some of the things that you've had to deal with here on this campus at UNLV that students may not even think about? You know, it could be something as simple as making sure the elevators are working. Yeah,

Peter Gatto 25:39
we have our Student Life maintenance and student life technology team. Abby wood and Vicki McLean are phenomenal directors, and they we partner with them, very, very closely. And, you know, you brought up some of the physical aspects, like elevators. I mean, just in terms of work orders. I mean, we have 1000s that come in, and it could be really related to a plumbing issue, you know, a toilet or a shower. And she has a team, and they're always out there repairing things. And, you know, the goal is to make it a non distraction, right? So that the student, like you said, Hey, I have an issue. I go down to the desk, I tell a staff member, at least within 20 it's done. Within 24 hours, it's been fixed, or would have been repaired. And so from a student and I use the term customer service, student service standpoint, that's the type of sort of philosophy that we have, is we don't want any distractions. If the AC goes down, okay, maybe we need to move a student temporarily or permanently, and we have those resources to do things like that, but it's, it's just they do a phenomenal job addressing these issues so quickly so that it is a non distraction. And I think about Maslow's hierarchy of needs when I kind of, in my mind, you know, what is, how do we want to design this? And fundamentally, we want to make sure, like, all these things at the bottom of the pyramid are met so they're not distracting. And that's the food, that's the shelter, you know, something like Wi Fi, right? If it happens at home, okay, not such a big deal. But when you have, you know, a 500 students living in a residence hall, it is a big deal when they're trying to get their homework done the following day, or they have exams, or whatever the case may be. So, you know, things happen. You know, you mentioned the elevators, that's another area that, you know, we've had tremendous support on to kind of get them where we need them to be. So these challenges are going to come with any sort of, you know, building, complex, apartment, they're going to come but the key is, how do you react, how quickly and at what level, from a quality standpoint, do you get things worked out? So again, I couldn't do it without our partners and the team that

Dr. Sammie Scales 27:42
I have, all right, anyone on your team you want to shout out like Renee Tim?

Peter Gatto 27:46
Oh, yeah. So absolutely So Renee Parker and Tim Sedgwick, Kyle Broyard, you know, from from the residential education side of the house, the housing operations, all of our RLCS, all of our RAS Demetri RA for I mean, if I'm missing anybody, please forgive me, but they, you know, it's all them. And even this weekend, we had such a smooth move in. And you know, folks come up to me and say, Oh, Peter, you know, great job. I said, No, it's not Peter. It's the team that executes everything. I just, hey, I need you to, I need you to do that. And I'm just very fortunate that things get done, and they get done at a very high level. So shout out to the entire team, michaelan, as well. I want to put you in there so and then obviously, Dr scales, you too. I mean, you've been wonderful to work with, and very supportive, and I know all the great things that you're doing to help us in South complex. So I appreciate all

Dr. Sammie Scales 28:36
your work. The pleasure has been all mine, working over in housing. It's been an excellent team, and I absolutely love working over there. Thank you. So with that being said, that's that's a wrap. Peter Gatto, anytime, Director of Housing and Residential Life, anytime you want to come back and have any topic you want to speak on or let students know what's coming up, you're more than welcome to come back. You have an open door invitation.

Peter Gatto 28:55
Thank you. Dr scales, it's been a wonderful experience. Thank you so much.

Dr. Sammie Scales 28:59
And that's a wrap

Dr. Renee Watson 29:03
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