Tabor uses Hillsboro houses to hold students
As the Tabor College student body grows, so has the need for student housing.
And some people might be surprised to know that campus resident halls don't hold everyone.
For several years, Tabor has used Hillsboro houses as places for TC students to live in, said Judy Hiebert, vice president of student development.
Currently, 347 students live in campus housing. At Tabor, all students are required to live on campus unless they live in town with their parents, Hiebert said.
Tabor has nine total dormitories: Cedar, Regier, Ediger, and East for women, and Dakota, California, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Kansas for men.
Tabor owns six off-campus houses: two on Lincoln Street, three on Adams, and one on Madison. The college still considers these houses as being on campus, since they're adjacent to the main campus, Hiebert said.
The most recent addition to that group of houses is 410 S. Lincoln. It's known as Lincoln II. The other houses are also named after their streets, except for one home on Adams, which is called Prieb Hall.
Tabor also owns one duplex, Hiebert said.
The number of students living in the houses depends on the size of the house, but there are generally between two and eight students living in one house, Hiebert said.
Students can request to live in a house in the spring, when the rest of the housing requests are made. They're not limited to a specific grade level, but in general, upperclassmen live there the most.
No freshmen live in the houses, Hiebert said.
Many times, students ask to live in a house with a group of friends.
"They like being together in smaller clusters," Hiebert said. And this year, the majority of students who applied to live in a house got their request.
In the future, however, another campus resident hall is in the works.
"We're just in the preliminary drawings," Hiebert said.
The proposed resident hall would be located south of Dakota, just east of the science building. It would be larger than Dakota, Hiebert said.
For now, Tabor will continue to fit students in the space they have available. It's too early to tell if the college will have to purchase another house for next year, Hiebert said.
But a growing student enrollment is never something to complain about.
"It's a good challenge to have," Hiebert said.
