The University of Minnesota is reorganizing Off-Campus Living, a unit of the Office of Student Affairs that has existed since 2003. The restructuring will move resources for students who commute and live off campus to other units under the OSA, but no programs are being cut.
OCL offered services including Roommate Finder, a Facebook group moderated by OCL and a list of Non-Compliance Properties to guide students to safe and fair leases. Their website also featured pages on commuter resources and safety.
With the OCL unit being phased out, OCL community liaison and Commuter Connection room co-chair Arya Lucht, a fourth-year student, said OCL work ends on June 14. Even with that date in mind, Lucht said the department has not had much work to do since the end of May…