<p>Hi all;</p>
<p>We are a married couple with children living in Texas and currently one semester from completing our associate degrees at our local community college. </p>
<p>We are pretty sure we will be moving to Iowa (my spouses home state) and completing our 1st Bachelor degrees at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar falls. </p>
<p>We are hoping to live in the University Apartments on campus and would love to hear from anyone who has lived in those apartments. </p>
<p>In general we are also interested in opinions about this school, specifically from the perspective of “non-traditional” students. We are both in our 30s with kids. We think that living in the University apartments will be beneficial to us to be so close to school but we also hope to meet other student like us (older and with kids). Just wondering what the overall atmosphere is like and if any non-traditional students can share their experiences that would be awesome. </p>
<p>Oh and finally, we’re a same-sex couple. While we don’t anticipate this being an issue, how conservative is Cedar Falls overall?</p>
<p>:) Thanks!</p>
<p>You probably won’t get much info here about UNI but I’ll try…</p>
<p>The People’s Republic of Iowa City (UIowa) is probably the best bet for you…very liberal and ‘accepting’.
UNI (Cedar Falls/Waterloo)…not quite sure. The UNI undergraduate population is largely from small town Iowa and trends conservative.</p>
<p>This isn’t the first UNI thread recently. Here is another one <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1074893-university-northern-iowa-suitcase-school.html?highlight=university+of+northern+iowa[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1074893-university-northern-iowa-suitcase-school.html?highlight=university+of+northern+iowa</a></p>
<p>My family is in Iowa, and I really don’t think it is necessarily a horribly conservative place. After all, same-sex couples can marry there! You may want to contact student family housing, and ask if they can put you in touch with other non-traditional age students who live there. </p>
<p>Back in the last century, when Happydad was finishing his PhD, we lived in student family housing at his university. The undergraduate families ranged from “traditional age” to those who had photos of their grandkids in their apartments. And of course the grad students came in every possible age as well. It was a lively community full of interesting people. I imagine that the student family housing at UNI must be much the same.</p>