Construction of A. type 1st and 2nd dormitories (1962)

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1962

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In a meeting he had about dormitories with a delegation from the State Planning Organization, Kemal Kurdaş, who served as the President of METU between 1961 and 1969, said: "It goes against the grain not to build dormitories on a modern university campus... Dormitories are one of the significant contributors to quality education ... The way I see it, it is an indispensable necessity for a university with a campus like METU to have a dormitory / bed capacity of at least 20-25% of its student body ..." With this in mind, METU, which was founded in 1956, started the construction of dormitories on campus to meet the accommodation needs of its students, and a total of 19 dormitories were built by 2014. First, the construction of Type A Dormitories 1 and 2 began towards the end of 1962. Because the firm which undertook the construction of the dormitories went bankrupt, they could only be opened two years later, in 1965. Meanwhile, both male and female students had to stay in rented buildings in the city center. When Dormitories 1 and 2 opened in 1965, the male students were placed in these buildings. Initially, the students stayed in rooms for 12 people in both buildings, and after alterations to the buildings in 1973, the rooms were divided into smaller units, and 6 students began to stay in each room.

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Dormitory, METU history, METU buildings

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/108280
https://bellek.metu.edu.tr/handle/11511/108280

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METU Bellek, Multimedia