The availability of on-campus housing has been an issue for FAU students in recent years and FAU says student-athletes are no exception. Students who did not get on-campus housing had to look elsewhere.
According to the Department of Housing and Residential Education (HRE) Director Catherine Kellman-Pitan, “221 student-athletes [live] in on-campus housing. This is 4% of the on-campus housing population.”
FAU Athletics spokesperson Katrina McCormack wrote in an email to the UP that the university had 498 student-athletes as of Sept. 12. This means that roughly 44% of student-athletes live on-campus.
Out of the approximately 30,000 students attending FAU, just over 5,000 students who do not play a sport live on-campus, which is around 16%.