off campus

idiom

: in housing not provided by a school
She prefers living off campus.

Examples of off campus in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Protesters demonstrate outside homes of Columbia trustees Exactly a week after New York City police raided Columbia University campus at the school administration’s request, students began demonstrating off campus on a sunny Tuesday morning at the homes and offices of the board of trustees. Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024 Recent practice in the L.A. Unified School District has been to keep police off campus. Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2024 On Sunday, Canfora says students held a peaceful sit-on on campus, calling on the university president to get the National Guard off campus, to no avail. Rachel Treisman, NPR, 4 May 2024 The next night, on Tuesday, the 64-year-old silver-haired scholar stepped outside his apartment building, located off campus across the street from Columbia. Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 4 May 2024 Colleges from coast to coast have seen pro-Palestinian protesters take over school libraries and buildings and had to clean menacing graffiti off campus property. Emma Colton, Fox News, 7 Apr. 2024 The report found Schiraldi violated agency policy by taking the children off campus without a court order and by waiving a mandate that they be restrained. Hannah Gaskill, Baltimore Sun, 31 Jan. 2024 Alvarez got a job in the school cafeteria but was escorted off campus when staffers recognized him from a security flyer. Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2024 And the Dons are playing this critical home game off campus at the Warriors’ Chase Center. Jeff Faraudo, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024

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“Off campus.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/off%20campus. Accessed 11 May. 2024.

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