Written scenario · Equity, Ethics

Fourteen rooms, thirty-eight students

You sit on your university's student affairs committee, which must recommend how to use emergency housing.

A fire has closed an off-campus apartment building, displacing 38 students. Your committee has 14 spare dorm rooms. Opening more would mean delaying repairs that other residents were promised. Erik, a staff member, proposes offering rooms only to students with children or disabilities. Another member points out that several single, able-bodied students are international students in their first semester, with no local contacts and no credit history to rent elsewhere. Both arguments seem sound, and the room goes quiet. You must recommend how many rooms to open and who should get them.