UNF Campus Housing

During the 2000s, UNF built two additional campus housing facilities, Osprey Crossings and Osprey Fountains. These residences almost doubled university’s total housing capacity, enabling 3,085 students to live on campus. The university began construction on what they initially referred to as The Crossings in early 2000, and the facility opened in August 2001. In October 2007, UNF broke ground on Osprey Fountains, a large, luxury housing facility. The units opened to students in August 2009, and like Osprey Village, were available to upper-class students. The university also constructed a new road on campus for Fountains residents, Osprey Ridge Road, and built a boardwalk between the facility and UNF Drive to enable pedestrian access to and from the main campus.

• Complex of three triad-shaped buildings, each three stories high, with central atriums
• Efficiency-style double- and triple-occupancy rooms, with snack areas and ensuite bathrooms
• Common lounges, cooking facilities, meeting spaces, and laundry rooms
• Capacity: 500 students

• Two five-story buildings, with a shared recreational building and outdoor space
• Single- and double-occupancy rooms, with private or shared ensuite bathrooms
• Shared kitchens, lounges, study rooms, laundry rooms, fitness center, game room, convenience store, pool, lazy river, athletic courts, putting green
• Capacity: 1,000 students

UNF greatly expanded on-campus student life services and recreational spaces in the 2000s with the opening of a student union complex and several other initiatives. In 2002, the university also expanded its student services by introducing Residential Freshmen Interest Groups (or RFIGs), which allowed two groups of first-year students to live in the same building and enroll in several of the same courses together. Both RFIGs and Honors student housing were located at Osprey Crossings in the 2000s, and these initiatives later became part of UNF’s Living-Learning Communities.

• Program: Women’s swimming
• Facilities: Hayt Golf Learning Center and golf course, Hodges Stadium upgrades (new lighting, seating, and Olympic-quality track)

• John A. Delaney Student Union, J. B. Coxwell amphitheater, Eco-Adventure, and a skate park (closed in 2015)