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Hello and welcome to another episode of Let's Talk. This is a Kun V 91.5 Welcome back, students, staff and faculty. We have an exciting episode here for you today. We have Kyle broyer. He's the housing assignment coordinator from House residential housing. Hello Kyle, and thank you for joining us today. Hey
Unknown Speaker 0:39
good everyone. How are you today? Dr scales, I'm
Unknown Speaker 0:41
doing great, man, I'm doing great. As I start the show with all my guests, I like to ask the origin story, how did you end up here at UNLV, of all places? Oh,
Unknown Speaker 0:49
the origin story is actually one of great length. So first of all, I graduated high school when I was 17. Didn't really have an idea where I wanted to go, although I still was pretty scholastically gifted. I would say Vegas was always a second home for me and my family, whether it was just traveling back and forth. My mom grandparents had timeshares out here. It was usually a gathering for the family as well. So it only made sense that I look into schooling out here as well. I knew of the rebels, even, you know, in middle school and high school. So UNLV wasn't, you know, some like some students, where it says, quote, unquote, last resort. You know, I knew of the campus, and I knew of of the university here itself, and just, you know, making that kind of a leap where it's, it's, it's away from home, but it's still close enough, right? So I came out here in 2010 started my undergrad. I decided to take the long road. Graduated, no nice time. Was seven years later. I greatly enjoyed my time here at UNLV. But during that undergrad, you know, I switched majors, here and dear, here and there, like, you know, many other college students just trying to find yourself, find where you fit in, and then pursue that passion. So, you know, first start out with computer engineering and science, and then that eventually shifted into my business management program, where I had a focus in management and accounting, you know, took some music classes here and there as well. So, you know, got a chance to, you know, explore a lot of the UNLV campus, the culture, and see a lot of the growth in that time. During my undergrad, I wore a lot of hats on campus, you know, I was in fraternity, so I definitely got involved on campus. Went to all the games, basketball, soccer, our men's and women's team were dominant back then, as well as they still are. And I was a proud Ken birch era for the men's basketball team Running Rebels. And then, of course, football was good old sand Boyd Stadium for me. Now it's Allegiant, you know, so little jealous for some of the newer generation, but I found myself, you know, still wanting to get involved and wanting more at my college experience and so kind of getting to my origin story here where I am now, ever since I was 18, going on 19, I've been part of the Housing and Residential Life program. So I applied to be an RA. I was selected in a mid year for it as well. So I was fortunate enough to obtain the position a little earlier than some of the traditional candidates are, where it's a year long process that you go through various interviews, courses that you take to get more of that student development and engagement expertise down. That way you're prepared for the students coming in to the classes. And since then, I was rolling with the RA roll for three, three and a half years, I would consider myself a model Ra. You might be able to ask our current Assistant Director of res life now with Tim Sedgwick. I've known him since my RA days as well, so it's great to kind of have that full circle moment to work with him at the time, kind of transitioning out of the RA role into my actual major degree field, was the operation side. So I worked the front desk. I worked the mail operations that we have even currently now, I've seen, you know, our systems change, evolve, come and go, and I've been fortunate enough to, after graduating, work in the hospitality industry for about a year and a half. And much like those of us during that time, 2019 to 2022 we were affected by COVID. But fortunately, I was able to bounce back when an operational role for the for the department came about, started off as part time, and it was much like the operations role I had back then, where it was more of a student management role, divided by three of us that were in, you know, management fields looking for experience to, you know, take into the work world, and all those was all into one full time position, and I held a lot of hats in that one, as well, making connections with other departments, marketing the department as a whole, presenting to a lot of our students and prospective students, whether it was during rebel preview, whether it was doing admin rebel day, whether it was During the Hawaii orientations as well, kind of becoming that self proclaimed face of housing. So I was a housing baby, as you can say. I started here and I ended here as well. Wow. And then fast forward, now a bit more behind the scenes, but still very much present within the you know, we community now in this assignments coordinator
Unknown Speaker 4:56
role, wow. So how many years have you known? Tim?
Unknown Speaker 4:59
Oh. Going on, 14 now, 1414. Years. 14 years. Tim, actually, when I actually gotten in a little bit of trouble within the halls, Tim was actually part of my conduct hearing. Fortunately, it all worked out. You know, you can always, you can always turn into a new leaf. We'll say that,
Unknown Speaker 5:19
wow, man, that's, that's that's quite a vast resume there, and graduating high school at age 17. So yes, it won't be an understatement to say that you're an overachiever at this point. I try,
Unknown Speaker 5:28
you know, again, I, you know, so much of an overachiever. I wanted to stay here. You gonna be a little longer. I
Unknown Speaker 5:32
can definitely understand, since coming to this campus, you know, it's the sense of belonging is incredible. I definitely like the campus, and feel good, really good being here, actually. So yeah, so let's get into the into this back and forth here. So how do you in the role that you're in now? How do you manage and prioritize the various aspects of room assignments, roommate matching and room changes for like 1800 students, knowing that some of these may or may not work out. How do you how do you manage that? So
Unknown Speaker 6:01
I think one of the things that we take pride in our department is that we do have a very large on campus housing, housing population, compared to, you know, this stigma that, you know, these a commuter school. So we take a lot of pride in that. And what we do is we have a lot of systems in place to help manage those particular areas, whether it's, you know, on the room assignments portion, where we give students some control in that aspect, whether it's a room change situation, because, let's be honest, it's not a perfect world, right? We have other systems in place, whether it's communication with the RAS whether it's certain mediations or counseling sessions, in regards to seeing what the issues are, if this can be rectified, or if not, trying to find a feasible solution. Maybe some students want to live with their roommate. So we do like a room swap some students, of course, you know, want some of that solitude that I want to be by myself. And if we have those available spaces, like a single room accommodation, we also seek out those as well. But, but we do a lot to make sure, before even coming to the campus, that there is somewhat of a feasible match for students for their housing preferences. Okay,
Unknown Speaker 7:01
so with the with those students that you know like solitude and like being alone, I'm sure those rooms probably is cost a little bit different. So what strategies do you use to ensure an accurate student billing and maintaining updated housing rosters throughout the academic year?
Unknown Speaker 7:15
Yes, and so one great, powerful tool that we have, which you know, back in the day, back in my day, I'll say I can wear that hat now, right? Everything was paper, but we've since then evolved our operations. Everything's digital. Now we have a very powerful housing tool that we use, called the housing director, or THD, that on the back end, we see a lot of that infrastructure, a lot of that data and monetary values, and on the front end, the user end students have a bit of an access to that as well. They can see who the roommates are. They can see their contact information. They can see their delivery address, their mailing address. They can, you know, go through the portion of selecting their roommates. They can go through the portion of selecting a room when those times come about. And so with this program, on the back end of things, you know, everything is set on a monetary value, whether it's a south room double or UCC single, every room we have has a certain dollar amount to it. And throughout the semester, you know, as you're using those days up, those amounts will, in a sense, prorate themselves until they equate to zero. And we try to do our best to effectively make sure that, let's say, someone moves from one space to a different space, and it said there was a difference in cost. Those prohibited amounts are as accurate as possible to ensure that students are getting the correct billing amount. We also work with the university as a whole to make sure that students don't necessarily pay us those ties, those those amounts are tied into their student accounts. So you know, unlike some students who may have to commute to campus or they're paying rent. A lot of those charges, they can't necessarily apply to the financial aid living on campus, since it goes strict directly from our system to the university system. And in theory, your financial aid, your loans, scholarships, any grants that you may get, whether it's the Western undergrad Exchange Program Grant, whether it's the Clark County Housing Grant, those are all taken into account within your financial aid package.
Unknown Speaker 9:01
Wow. So would it cost differently to live in FYE versus living, I don't know, over in howelltown. So
Unknown Speaker 9:09
fortunately for that, no howelltown and FYE, for those who are listening now, are actually one of our theme communities. Howelltown is for African American black scholars. We actually partner with this university program department in regards to making sure they have those accessible services and support systems in place for them. FYE for the first year experience floor in how town actually in the same complex, so there is no actual dollar amount difference in regards to whether students want to choose a preference to live on how town, or if they're a first year by graduating date living on the First Year Experience floor. Wow.
Unknown Speaker 9:42
Okay, that's how that works. So how do you approach the collaboration of meal plan charges, especially during peak periods like the start of semester, when every you know student just want to eat and this,
Unknown Speaker 9:53
this is, this is probably my number one question, especially during orientation, where I was leading those as students when they come. Especially if they're first years, they never really know truly what their eating appetite is going to be. So we go through various different meal plan changes, and so we actually have that conversation with our UNLV dining team, Aramark, who was a contract with UNLV, as far as providing those, those those meal plan services, and students can select their meal plans before they even arrive on campus. Those are automatically uploaded to the student accounts, as well as their robocarts for access to the dining commons or whatever eateries or other art around campus. So let's say you're a student and you're you want the lowest meal plan, which is you get 14 sweats per week and you get 100 dining dollars by the third week. Students typically have an idea, hey, maybe more. So we also, we also, we always invite them to go visit us at the housing office and say, hey, you know, I'm needing a little bit more of my eating experience. And so we can actually increase their meal plan to make sure that they're accommodated as best possible with that as well. So students have the opportunity to let us know or request a meal plan change. It doesn't have to always be higher. Students always, you know, bite off bit too much. Hey, I have the unlimited plan and all this money, but I'm not using it as much. You know? Can I change it and we accommodate those changes for them as well. It's a little bit of an old school system, but it's one that I like, where it's a paper form, but we still inform them, saying, hey, this meal plan change was approved. It's granted. You should see these account changes roughly within 24 hours. So we do our best to also communicate with them and walk them through that process. Wow.
Unknown Speaker 11:20
Well, I definitely can attest that to the dining common experience. The food over there is really good. Yes, it is. I've eaten at my old institution, and, you know, it's kind of like eating regular cafeteria, like food, but here it's a totally different dining experience. It's like the food is gourmet. Yes, I know they have a new chef over there. I think she's Jamaican and, man, the food that she cooks amazing. The recipes is so amazing over there. So
Unknown Speaker 11:47
any of our Jamaican students and other things, she speaks incredible. Patois,
Unknown Speaker 11:52
well, I tell you, man, yeah, but I eat over there quite often, at least twice a week. I'm over the dining, COVID, eating. The food is really good, and it didn't cost that much, you know, compared to going out in town and buying something there versus eating on campus. You say, I've saved so much more money by eating on campus. And that's
Unknown Speaker 12:06
one of the great things about students who live on campus, is that although there's a requirement for the meal plan that's us in a university, in a way of saying that we don't want you to have to worry about when or where your next meal is going to come from. A lot of students are that we typically see. Some are housing insecure. Some are also food insecure. And yes, University has some of those systems in place, but students who live on campus, we want to make sure that the last thing you have to worry about that may impede your studies, impede your ability of being more social or getting more involved on campus. And that deals with food. A lot of that comes down to, hey, I haven't eaten yet. I don't know what I'm going to do, and that worry burdens them to actually living out their full college potential. Yeah, and so we again requirement, yes, but the dining commons goes through great lengths to ensure that students have one equal eating experience, but one that's also elevated in your dining commons. I'm sure you've seen the DJ there. Oh yeah, they do a lot of theme nights when football came back for their season openers, they had all kind of, you know, the American football hot dog hamburgers, gourmet galore. But even our Jamaican chef, you know, they have a lot of these themed dishes where they incorporate other cultural and ethnical dishes in there as well. My favorite, of course, my family's from New Orleans. So during Mardi Gras season, they do things like they actually had it yesterday as well. They have their favorite they have the PO boys. They have the gumbo. They make a mean chicken gumbo. I'm not used to chicken gumbo, but this one's good. Okay, well, yeah, man, the food
Unknown Speaker 13:31
is so good over there, you know. And they have, you know, different bars. They have dessert bars. They have, you know, where you can get the healthy food, the fruits, the grains. It's just, it's a great experience.
Unknown Speaker 13:40
We call it dining and lavish delicacies,
Unknown Speaker 13:44
an appropriate name. But yeah, I'm over there often when they do have the different cultural events over there, where they have foods from different countries, especially like MSI week, also they have different foods. So it's always good over there. Let me ask you this here. Could you describe your process for managing the housing wait list and ensuring students are fairly and effectively accommodated. Yes.
Unknown Speaker 14:04
So we've been fortunate to not necessarily have a wait list for students to get housing or guaranteed housing. Our biggest wait list that we have is what we call for our singles wait list. So again, students really want that. I want to be by myself. I want that independent style of living as well. So we do have a singles wait list because we only have so many that back, that go out, and we go based off of pretty much in these three categories, whether so a student was approved for a single process through the disabilities Resource Center, which is one department that we also work with for student housing accommodations, whether it's through a priority system that we establish, whether it's students who, maybe the year prior, wanted a single the singles were sold out, so we Put them on a wait list, and they actually have prioritized wait list over students in the future wanting to live into a single room, or we have students who are again that third category, it's a newer student. Hey, I want a single can I get on the wait list? And so that's where my job actually comes into. Places the moment a room becomes available, I go based off what. That room description is, I communicate with the DRC saying, Hey, we had a couple spaces open. Does the student need XYZ amodation for the single room? Accommodation room? If yes, this, this is the space. If no, okay, well, we'll see we can get them in for them that might be more suitable for them. For example, students who might be handy, capable when they need rolling showers. They need certain accommodations that maybe that one single room space may not accommodate, but the next one will, and just trying to best meet that need, and then just communicating that process through the students. Also, we work with our own student staff, so students don't have to talk to me directly, but they have someone where you know our front line, so you can say that has this information to present to them on a wider scale as well.
Unknown Speaker 15:42
Oh, okay, so, so a student would need to let housing know that they have a particular need correct in order to get a room that can accommodate them
Unknown Speaker 15:49
Correct, correct, correct. And working hand in hand with the disabilities Resource Center so students who do need those accommodations, we work with them if those accommodations typically aren't met right then and there. We work with our student maintenance departments as well. To say, hey, you know, XYZ room needs the ADA button installed because they have, they need the extra time to get their themselves in their chair out the door. Or, hey, we need to, you know, refit this bathroom with a roll and shower because the student needs it for their needs also. But we work with various departments to make sure that we are one in compliance. But to that students have that accommodation meant for them as well. Wow,
Unknown Speaker 16:23
that's excellent. It sounds like you guys go above and beyond to make sure that students are accommodated, especially if they need that little extra help or extra whatever it is, you guys are accommodated in that way. Let me ask you this question. Do students actually get to choose whether they live in Dayton to South complex? Do they get to choose that? Or is just wherever the room's available, especially if they're not in a theme floor? And I want you also to talk about to let you know our listeners know what a theme floor? Yeah,
Unknown Speaker 16:48
of course. Of course. So this is kind of actually a two part question. So typically, prior to the academic term starting so fall, then spring, we go through a process where all of our new applicants will be called Room Selection and even roommate matching. So students have a chance to first select if they meet a friend during orientation, or maybe it's a brother or a family member here now, and their family members also coming here and they want a room together. So we give students a chance to actually match and select who they would like to live with before we even get involved on matching what their preferences are to find that suitable accommodation that best match for those students. After that process happens, we have what we call room selection. So this is continuing. The first part of the answer is, students can actually select where they would like to live at during the orientation portions, you know, students will tour see our Tonopah complex, which is, you know, the epicenter of campus. It's seats, it's bed, 600 students. It's close to the dining commons. It's closer to a lot of those other classrooms as well. So Tonopah is a hot commodity.
Unknown Speaker 17:44
China park can house 600 students. Yeah, wow.
Unknown Speaker 17:48
We have our Dayton complex. So Dayton's actually primarily for our first year students. Only houses about 501st years. And then we have our South complex, which has got, you know, culmination of students who are upper class and first year, but also where we can kind of see those students in those identity based themed communities. So we have our how town floor, we have Stonewall suites, we have our first year experience. Floor, we're actually introducing a brand new floor. I don't want to give spill the tea just yet, but we're introducing a brand new floor next year for another one of our identity based students here on campus as well. And all of those are actually working with student receive programs. And so just those spaces, students can actually set the preference for in regards to, hey, I want to live here. And when the time comes in, their priority number based on when they submit their application. They can log into their housing portal. They can check a room. They can see the floor plan. They can see what all will come with it. And we're working with a new company as well to give those students this Lydd model of the room would look like. So not all students have the capabilities to come and see them in person. So what can we do to bring that experience to them, whether it's via our YouTube channel to show tours, whether it's a 3d model to see what the spaces look like, what they come with as well, so students can actually select their space. And then the second part to that question is we offer students who maybe apply a little later based on availability or even room changes. If we have certain spaces available, we present those to them saying, hey, you know this roommate? Great match quality for you. They're in this building, or they're in this building, and then we give them that opportunity to also choose, choose, choose and select.
Unknown Speaker 19:17
Wow, excellent, excellent. Well, let's shift gears here. Let me ask you this, what role does dei play in your daily work, particularly when handling roommate matching or Room Selection? Because I'm sure there are times when you put when you know students get together in rooms that two or three days later they find out, Oh, God, this is not a match. And then how do they get out of those room are they able to come to you guys, whether they do it online or come to you in person and say, hey, look, this is not working. This is what's happening. I really need to change rooms. How does that process work for students? Well,
Unknown Speaker 19:49
first I want to say, thank you. This is a great question. I don't think a lot of individuals know how important dei is for the campus as a whole. So we definitely try to align ourselves with as best possible to the university's vision as well. I. When it comes to dei in my current role as well, and it's a perfect world. Not everyone is going to match well with their with their with their roommate. And we've seen friends from high school say, hey, we can't do it anymore. So this is where a lot of their preferences in the applications come into play. This is where a lot of those other safeguards we have come into play with the RA is getting involved as well, is we try to understand what's causing the issue? What can we do to assist with finding a more suitable space for you, from what we have available, and then, what other resources can put in place to make sure that, you know, let's say it's a disagreement. Maybe it's race related, maybe it's, you know, their food is smelly. You know, what can we put in place to, in a sense, educate students to get a better understanding of these different cultures and different backgrounds, while also mitigating the situation and also getting you know the student who may be offended or affected by this somewhere in a space that's also conducive for them. So there's a lot of factors that go into play with this. So you know again, one starts with what did you put on the application that helps me out to find a suitable accommodation for students? Are you social? Are you outgoing? Are you into sports? Are you into going to college games? Are you quite Do you want more of a study intensive area? Do you want to be involved in your floor? Do you so a lot of other characters and questions that go into this process, and then the RAS will get involved, especially if a situation, you know, is a bit more escalated, to get to an understanding of, well, what's going on? Because if someone is providing negative behavior, that also needs to be addressed in educational front as well. Yeah, absolutely.
Unknown Speaker 21:28
Let me ask you this, because I'm sure that this has happened here on this campus. But I just want to know how you guys approach it. What do you do when you have two roommates and, you know, get along fairly well, but one comes down with COVID. Oh man. How do you handle that? Because, you know, although we're kind of sort of through with COVID, COVID, so how do you handle those situations? So
Unknown Speaker 21:50
what we what we do is, actually we are continuing our what we call COVID protocols from that, I'll call it era, because although it was two years ago, it seems like forever, but it's still here, right? So we actually have COVID protocols in place where, although it's no longer forced of an issue, we it's almost like you're playing basketball on the balls in the student's court. So we've had it where student will come to us saying, Hey, I tested positive for COVID. I'm freaking out. What do I do? Well, one, we have them remain calm, and we offer them that that opportunity. Well, do you want to move? Do you want to temporarily move into your systems test negative, or at least until you feel better? We do go by CDC guidance, which is typically 24 hours after they test negative, they can then move themselves back to their space. And so we ask them, Well, do you feel comfortable? Do you want to move? And they will say yes or no, which will actually contact the roommate and say, well, the resident will ask them, Did you tell your roommate that you tested positive for COVID? They say, typically say, No, we would advise that, and we would have the roommate contact us, because, again, it's still a tricky situation. So students don't want to necessarily move to a temporary space that we have, what we call like our isolation room, until they feel better to return back and the roommate might not feel comfortable staying in that space as well. So we do offer temporary spaces. We work with our dining team as well. So students who are temporarily placed into those isolation spaces, they still get those meal accommodations as well throughout their throughout their time in recovery. It was actually recently a student had tested positive for COVID, and they opted in to move temporarily. We worked with our dining team to make sure that they had very sort of the resources and items that they needed to make sure that they didn't have to leave the room worry about, I need orange juice, I need food. I need that. So we still take measures in that aspect to make sure students are taken care of and they do get a chance to feel better and worry about that focus.
Unknown Speaker 23:36
Okay, so when it what it comes down to is, if that student wants to move, that have COVID, they can move correct. But if they choose not to move, the other roommate can correct, move to a different room, correct. Okay, cool. Let me ask you this. How do you collaborate with other departments and offices here on campus? You know? How do you guys do that? Yeah,
Unknown Speaker 23:55
so I mentioned a couple earlier. So the disabilities Resource Center, we work with them in regards to students who need you know whether it's secret accommodations we have, we're growing a population students who are need of emotional support animals as well. So the DRC works with those students to see what on a housing side, can we accommodate for the students? We work with financial aid and cashiering services as well to either inform them on students that are meeting certain standards, or if they have questions, we relay them as well. We work with student diversity programs as well. For a lot of identity based in communities. We have partnerships with other academic colleges. So we have engineering floors, hospitality floors, Honors College floors, fine arts and we have our global languages floor as well. We work with our student life technology team. We have this brand new E Sports lounge that they oversee in Tonopah complex. It's open to the students, not just in the halls, but on campus as well. So we work with them. We work with our dining team as well to make sure that students who are COVID, they have those meals and ready, or even students who maybe need certain meal accommodations, whether it's students who are either halal or students who need kosher, we work with them to make sure that. Those eating experiences are also met and kind of be that advocate for them as well. We work with the sow, see, so the Recreation and Wellness Center to provide, you know, students on the floor that want to be involved in those intercollegiate sports, intramural sports. Sorry, you know, providing those tools for them as well. We have, I mean, we work with a lot of different individuals and departments on campus, First Year Experience floor, to just bring that outside experience for students and make it more convenient to those who live on campus.
Unknown Speaker 25:33
Wow, that's excellent, man. You guys work with tons of people here on campus. Yes, we do. So what advice would you give students who are applying for, up for on campus housing for the first time. And what should they know about housing, the housing assignment process and living in housing. So
Unknown Speaker 25:49
one thing that I would my, my advice for students is to, you know, always research. And this is this, this, this goes even before you come to campus. So you know, we see students come to UNLV. They're not liking it necessarily, but they just don't know what UNV has to offer, because they don't research it as well. UNLV is home to so many different identities and so many different groups that students can be a part of, especially those who live on campus, and it's just more convenient for them if they live on campus as well. Through the housing application process, it is okay to ask questions. You can call us 34,000 times, if you'd like. As long as you get those questions answered, I think you're gonna be on the right track for that. Okay?
Unknown Speaker 26:27
And how would students that wanted to contact you? How would they do that? How would they contact we
Unknown Speaker 26:32
are everywhere we have our social media presence. So we're on Instagram at UNLV housing. We actually have a lot of promotions there that, you know, give students who even currently live with us those reminders of, you know, what the on campus lifestyle is like. Hey, how to do mail? What happens if I'm locked out of my room? What's the re on duty number? And you know, our YouTube channel is flourishing. So we have accessible videos for students who, you know, want to learn how to learn how to fill out the application. Students who are international, they want to learn how to fill out the application. Students who want to tour the various rooms we have on campus, whether it's UCC single for those aspiring first year students, Tonopah residents, Dayton South complex residents as
Unknown Speaker 27:15
well. Okay, so what's your best advice for students? If you have to give advice to a student that say, You know what, I want to go to UNLV and I do want to live in housing. What was the best advice you would offer those students
Unknown Speaker 27:26
so and this is actually saying a lot for some students. Myself, I was very much an introvert. One of the things that you know, my parents kind of ingrained in me was when you go to these orientation sessions, when you go to anything UNLV related, it is okay to not expose yourself as a strong word, but just let yourself be known. Get out there. You have to be open so people can accept you, for you to also accept them. My first year here, I experienced homeless, home, homesickness. I was again, 17 years old, away from family, three hour three and a half hours is so far enough, right? And not much of connection, until I started to get myself involved. I started to put myself out there, and that was when I made UNLV my home. And it wasn't until my second semester I was flourishing, thriving. GPA went skyrocket again. Seven years loved it still. GPA was very high again. The RA role helped me out as well as I think one advice I would give to students coming to UNLV is just put yourself out there.
Unknown Speaker 28:23
Yeah, it's just get involved. Wow, that's excellent, man. Excellent. Let me ask one more question. Our final question here, if money wasn't an issue at all, okay, what would you like to see for housing? Oh, man,
Unknown Speaker 28:34
so I would love to see new building. Our newest building, which is the Dayton complex, was built back in, 2008 2006 I believe, actually. So it's it's not an old building, but we're getting to that point where we would love to see something newer. There's a lot of development happening around the university, and I would love for something good, new development for our department to offer these students just that elevated experience of living on campus. It's not just the convenience, it's the program we have tied into it. It's the dedication from our student, staff, team, our RAS our front desk, our faculty and staff, that we want to provide these students. We want to provide it to more students. Wow. Thank
Unknown Speaker 29:09
you so very much. I really appreciate you taking the time to sit here with us and talk with us and give us all this information from housing so Mr. Kyle Breyer, thank you so very much. We really appreciate having you on the show. And anytime you want to come back, just let us know. Back, just let us know. We'd be happy to have you
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back. Perfect. Thank you. Anyone ever has any questions, you can always email us at housing@unlv.edu or you can always give us a phone call area code, 702-895-3489,
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thank you so much. We look forward to speaking with the audience on next week here on the campus of UNLV. That's a wrap down. For more. Let's
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