Northeastern State University's "Extreme Housing Makeover"...

Northeastern State University's "Extreme Housing Makeover" returns

Extreme Housing Makeover (EHM), a competition in which residence halls compete to win building improvements, has returned to Northeastern State University's residence halls for a second year.

During the Extreme Housing Makeover competition, residence halls host programs and events and receive points for attending students, staff and faculty. Students sign in at different events to vote for buildings.

Students can also collect points for their halls by attending campus events, participating in community service projects and competing in residence hall competitions. Each residence hall must submit a video explaining the need for a makeover. The hall with the most points in the designated time wins a makeover of their commons areas.

Through Extreme Housing Makeover, we hope to increase excitement around housing, improve commons areas, and ultimately increase student participation in campus events which better connects them to each other and to our university, said EHM chair and university marketing coordinator Dana Boren Boer. If at some point students consider moving off campus, maybe we could have impacted their experience and improved their hang out area so that they might consider staying.

The NSU Physical Plant is responsible for the renovations to the winning hall.

According to assistant director of Residential Life Tammie Willis, Extreme Housing Makeover benefits the students in numerous ways.

First, the winner gets a new lounge or common area that may not have met their needs before, she said. Secondly, this is something that all the students of a community work toward. It's something they work to earn so it increases the involvement of students within their communities and on campus greatly.

Extreme Housing Makeover kicked off August 15 and concludes with a reveal event Dec. 9 with the announcement of the winner.

9/16/2009

Published: 2009-09-16 00:00:00