Between 20 and 30 students from Scripps College will be living on Pomona College’s campus for the duration of the Spring 2011 school semester.

The Deans of Students at the two colleges collaborated to make the decision to move Scripps students to Pomona.

According to Rebecca Lee, Scripps Dean of Students, Scripps is “still in the midst of finalizing our enrollment numbers for spring,” so the exact number of Scripps students who will be housed at Pomona is unknown.

Pomona College Housing Director Deanna Bos said Scripps students will be staying in rooms “not taken by Pomona students during the room draw process or room change request process” and that Scripps will assign the students to those vacant rooms.

Potential spaces have not yet been identified. However, according to Pomona College President David Oxtoby, it is the present intention that students be housed in North Campus dorms.

“Scripps and Pomona have opposite patterns of students abroad this year,” said Oxtoby. Bos added that Pomona had an “unusually high number of students” on campus for the fall 2010 semester but will have an “unusually low number of students” for the Spring 2011 semester, since a greater number of students will be going abroad.

Despite an increase in available housing space at Pomona in the spring, Bos said that due to Pomona’s “lease situation” with College Park Apartments, which currently houses a number of students due to Pomona’s fall housing crunch, “there is no option of discontinuing students living there for the spring 2011 semester.”

As a result, Pomona will have extra space on campus to accommodate students from Scripps, which Bos said is “experiencing a housing crunch.”

“[It] seemed a good way to cooperate for the benefit of both colleges,” Oxtoby said.

Although Lee said the major problem is that there are more Scripps students returning from abroad than there are leaving to study abroad, she added that Scripps is dealing with its “largest-ever first-year class,” which complicates the problem even more.

Oxtoby said Pomona is also expecting additional Scripps students to live on Pomona’s campus during the 2011-12 school year. Pomona’s new residence halls are scheduled to be open by the fall of 2011, and the extra space will not be completely filled by the Pomona college community.

“We don’t want to suddenly increase the entering class to fill it,” said Oxtoby.

He said Pomona and Scripps will bring students back from the College Park apartments by the fall 2011 and spring 2012 semesters and that the “extra capacity” on Pomona’s campus will be put to use, potentially by Scripps students.