HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE FACULTY AND STAFF HOUSING POLICY
Houses and land belonging to the College, when offered for rent or sale, are to be offered first to faculty and staff according to the restrictions and guidelines of the housing policy. These restrictions and guidelines are intended 1) to encourage members of the faculty and staff, whose frequent and informal contact with students enhances the total educational mission of the College, to live on the campus and to encourage the early assimilation of certain new employees into the life of the community; 2) to assure that certain houses are made available for members of the administration who, by direction of the Trustees, must live on the campus; 3) to establish and continue the campus and the surrounding area as an academic community; 4) to protect the investment of the College in houses and land in and around the campus; and 5) to provide a consistent plan under which houses and land will be made available to faculty and staff. Only incidentally are the purchase of College houses or land and the renting of College houses to be construed as benefits or perquisites.
- Method of Allocating Housing
- The Housing Committee responsible for the assigning of faculty and other employees to rental units and for overseeing the purchase of houses and building lots, shall be composed of the President, the Vice-President for Business Affairs and Treasurer, the Provost and Dean of the Faculty, the Business Manager, the Dean of Students, the Chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee and a member of the Board of Trustees1. The Provost and Dean of the Faculty will chair the committee. No member of this committee may take part in any committee action in which he or she is party.
- The Chair of the Housing Committee, beginning on or about May 1 each year, will inform faculty and staff as to what is available for the coming year and normally will announce assignments within two weeks of each notice of availability.
- Competing claims for rental units, for the purchase of College land, and for the purchase of homes that become available for sale will be resolved by a point system (equal claims to be resolved by the Housing Committee). The point system is as follows:
| EMPLOYEE CATEGORY | POINT VALUE |
| All full-time faculty and other exempt employees | 1 point for each completed year of service to the College |
| All exempt administrators and staff | 2 points |
| All tenure-track Assistant Professors plus exempt
administrators and staff whose residence on campus
is designated "highly desirable" | 3 points |
| All tenured and tenure-track Associate Professors
plus exempt administrators and staff whose residence
on campus is designated "strongly desirable" | 4 points |
| Tenured and tenure-track Full Professors | 5 points |
(NOTE: Senior Administrative Officers will nominate and rank those exempt employees whose residence on campus is "highly desirable," and "strongly desirable." These designations will be reviewed by the Housing
Committee. The Board of Trustees will designate those employees required to live on campus. See Appendix C for current list.)
Rental Housing
- Houses reserved for rental to new appointments (See Appendix A For List).
All faculty and staff who have been employed at the College for fewer than six years are eligible to apply for housing reserved for new appointments (with preference given in reverse seniority order). At the end of the academic year following the year that a tenure decision is made, faculty members will vacate these units. In the case of other exempt employees, rental is limited to six years. In the absence of demand from new faculty or staff (but only until there is such demand), a continuing faculty member or other exempt employee, in accordance with the point system, may occupy one of these units on an annual basis.
- Houses reserved for rental to senior faculty and staff (See Appendix B For List).
Houses reserved for rental to senior faculty and staff (those with a minimum of six years of full-time service at the College) will be allocated according to the point system. In the absence of demand by senior faculty or staff (but only until there is such demand), other College employees, in accordance with the point system, may occupy one of these units on an annual basis.
- Rental by non-exempt employees
Non-exempt and part-time employees may also rent College housing when no exempt employee desires it. Such individuals may be required to vacate on any subsequent June 30.
- Rents for College housing units will be established under guidelines approved by the Board of Trustees. Renters of these units will pay full utilities.
- The College's normal rental year is July 1 through June 30. People who rent a unit beginning on a date other than July 1 may be required to vacate on the next June 30.
- The College reserves the right to terminate the lease of any employee renting College housing as early as 60 days after the end of employment. All employees whose employment with the College terminates, for whatever reason, must vacate rental units by June 30. Special arrangements will be made for faculty whose employment terminates at the end of a fall semester. Exceptions are at the discretion of the Housing Committee.
Houses Reserved for Employees Required to Live on Campus (See Appendix C For List)
Employees assigned to one of these houses pay rent and utilities established under guidelines approved by the Board of Trustees. Employees required to live on campus must live in one of these designated houses, or buy or build elsewhere on campus. When one of these employees does buy or build, the Housing Committee will choose in accord with the point system an interim occupant for the house thus vacated. Such an interim occupant will pay rent established under guidelines approved by the Board of Trustees and full utility costs and will be required to vacate, with fair notice [three months or the end of the current academic year, whichever is longer] whenever the house is needed for an employee required to live on campus.
Purchase of College Land or Houses
- Tenured faculty, tenure-track faculty, and other exempt employees may purchase houses or building lots from the College, as available and upon terms and conditions designated by the Board of Trustees. In the case of houses available for rent or sale, offers to purchase by faculty and other exempt employees will take precedence over offers to rent.
- College housing that is offered for sale will first be offered to the current occupant upon terms and conditions designated by the Board of Trustees. If the current occupant does not wish to purchase the home under these conditions, the house will be offered for purchase to other eligible faculty and exempt employees upon terms and conditions designated by the Board of Trustees, with competing claims resolved by the Housing Committee in accord with the point system. If no offer to purchase the house upon terms and conditions designated by the Board of Trustees is received, the College may elect to keep the house as rental property or to allow purchase bids under other conditions. EXCEPTION: If the College decides to offer for sale a home that had been reserved for new appointments, the point system will determine who has first priority among offers to purchase the home.
- All property sold by the College will be subject to a right of first refusal clause, this covenant running with the land. The owners of such property will be required, also, to maintain it according to reasonable standards.
- An employee who purchases a building lot from the College must begin construction of a residence on that land within a year of the purchase date, or sell the land back to the College at the purchase price. The College retains the right of first refusal in the event of a subsequent sale of the property and/or any residence constructed on it.
- Consistent with prior policy and county zoning regulations, such things as construction plans, specifications and siting and land use, are subject to prior approval by the Housing Committee, when an employee has purchased a building lot.
Miscellaneous
- Surviving spouses of College employees may continue to occupy College rental units until June 30 of the academic year following that of the employee's death. Covenants attached to deeds of College land and houses should include provision for a surviving spouse to occupy the house until his or her death. Subsequent remarriage would not affect exercise of this right by the surviving spouse. At such time as the property ceases to be the primary place of residence of the surviving spouse, the house must be sold within six months. Upon the expiration of the six-month period, the College may require that the property be conveyed to it at the then market value. In case of any disagreement as to fair market value, the seller and the College shall each appoint a qualified appraiser familiar with local property values to determine the fair market value. If such appraisers are not able to agree on the fair market value, they shall select another similarly qualified appraiser. If the three appraisers are then unable to agree on the fair market value of the property, each appraiser shall submit a formal appraisal setting forth his or her opinion as to the fair market value and the seller shall be required to convey the property for a price determined by averaging the three appraisals. These same provisions would apply to a divorced partner who receives in legal settlement a house covered by such a covenant.
- Subject to the exceptions in V.A. above, houses sold by the College to an individual employee will be subject to a clear covenant granting the College the right of first refusal and requiring sale of the property effective upon the individual's acceptance of non-College employment, or upon the individual's departure from the campus community.
- The President may approve temporary assignments or other temporary uses for rental housing as exceptions to this policy. The Chair of the Housing Committee will communicate the nature and duration of such arrangements to the Housing Committee.
- This policy and its appendices are subject to change by the Housing Committee with the consent of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, at any time. Changes will be communicated to the College community as revisions to applicable faculty and employee handbooks. Further, the President, with the consent of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, may make exceptions to this policy. Exceptions exercised by the President will be communicated to the College community by the Chair of the Housing Committee.
- Those aggrieved by a decision of the Housing Committee shall have ten days to appeal to the Committee for a review. If the Housing Committee does not resolve an appeal to the satisfaction of the aggrieved party, the aggrieved shall have ten days to appeal the Committee's decision to the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees.
Note on Implementation:
1. This policy supplements and supersedes the housing policy approved by the Board of Trustees in November, 1988. Except under conditions that may already have been agreed to, no renter of a College unit as of May 6,1982, will be required to vacate that residence as a result of this policy.
2. Trustee member of the Housing Committee shall be appointed by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Whenever feasible, this member of the Housing Committee shall be selected from among members of the Faculty Affairs Committee of the Board.
Housing Policy -- Approved 2/27/02
HOUSING POLICY APPENDIX A
RENTAL HOUSING WITH FIRST PREFERENCE TO NEW APPOINTMENTS
Cherry Hill
Farmer House
Hillsman A
Hillsman B
Reed House
HOUSING POLICY APPENDIX B
RENTAL HOUSING WITH FIRST PREFERENCE
TO SENIOR FACULTY/STAFF OR OTHER EXEMPT EMPLOYEES
Baird House
Leslie House
HOUSING POLICY APPENDIX C
COLLEGE HOUSING RESERVED FOR THOSE REQUIRED TO LIVE ON CAMPUS
| HOUSE | RESERVED FOR |
| Estcourt | |
| Middlecourt | President |
| Packer | |
| Penshurst | Provost and Dean of the Faculty |
| Westmerton | Vice President for Institutional Advancement |
EMPLOYEES REQUIRED TO LIVE ON CAMPUS
President
Provost and Dean of the Faculty
Dean of Admissions
Dean of Students
Vice-President for Business Affairs & Treasurer
Vice-President for Institutional Advancement
HOUSING POLICIY APPENDIX D
COLLEGE HOUSING TO BE OFFERED FOR SALE WHEN VACATED
Gilmer
HOUSING POLICY APPENDIX E
GUIDELINE FOR ESTABLISHING RENTAL RATES
The Board of Trustees has mandated that all College housing reserved for rental to new appointments, senior faculty and staff, other exempt and non-exempt employees shall be at rates comparable to those currently charged in the Farmville market and surrounding areas.
HOUSING POLICY APPENDIX F
GUIDELINE FOR ESTABLISHING PURCHASE PRICES
FOR COLLEGE HOUSES AND PROPERTY OFFERED FOR SALE
The Board of Trustees has mandated that all College housing and property offered for sale shall be at current market rates as determined by a fair market appraisal. It is the policy of the College not to finance the purchase of College land or housing or the construction of new housing on land purchased from the College.
HOUSING POLICY APPENDIX G
EXEMPT ADMINISTRATIVE/STAFF POSITIONS WHOSE HOUSING ON CAMPUS IS
RANKEDHIGHLY DESIRABLE OR STRONGLY DESIRABLE
STRONGLY DESIRABLE (FOUR POINTS)
Director of Counseling
Director of the Physical Plant
Director of Campus Security & Police
HIGHLY DESIRABLE (THREE POINTS)
Assistant Dean of Students
Associate Dean of Students
Associate Dean for Academic Support
Athletic Director
Head Baseball Coach
Head Basketball Coach
Head Football Coach
Head Lacrosse Coach
Head Soccer Coach
EXPLANATORY NOTE:
It is desirable that all exempt administrators and staff reside on campus. Therefore, at the minimum, each of these positions receives two points under the housing policy. The residence on campus of some administrators and staff, however, is ranked as strongly desirable (these receive four points) or highly desirable (these receive three points). These positions include those who are on call virtually twenty-four hours a day and those whose frequent interaction with students is desired by the College and thereby encouraged by proximity if possible.
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