2008 Woodie Awards
Annual Room Retentionshifts to online format
By Stephanie Lytle
Issue date: 3/17/08 Section: News
This year, for the first time, West Chester University's Residence Life & Housing is holding their annual Room Retention and Room Selection for on-campus housing during the school year of 2008-2009 as an online process.
Room Retention, an opportunity for students to keep their current rooms for next year, took place March 3-6. In previous years, students paid a non-refundable $100 housing deposit and signed an occupancy agreement at the Residence Life & Housing office in Lawrence 202.Students were able to select their current room for the upcoming year through MyHousing, a link on MyWCU.
Room Selection will be held March 19-24 for students currently living in University Housing and who did not receive a South Campus assignment. In the same way as the retention process, students are required to pay the housing deposit and sign the occupancy agreement. The last day to submit the required deposit and sign the agreement is March 18.
Upon doing so, between March 17-19, students will receive an email notification with instructions on how to choose a roommate and their assigned selection date and time. "Times are assigned according to the number of credits a student has earned as of January 1, 2008," according to Residence Life.
Graduate students will have the first choice and then down the line from seniors, juniors, sophomores, freshmen and new students. Within each of the class groupings, the times selected are done randomly by computer.
During the online process, students will be able to choose from rooms available after retention, their roommate, and their meal plan, which is required for all North Campus occupants and must be chosen before the room is selected.
Available online on the Residence Life & Housing webpage is information on the North Campus housing options and amenities including floor plans of each of the residence halls, which allow students to choose which building and floor would be right for them.
There is a detailed list of all eight Traditional Residential Facilities that includes which rooms and floors are male, female, and co-ed designated as well as their quiet hour policies.
Room Retention, an opportunity for students to keep their current rooms for next year, took place March 3-6. In previous years, students paid a non-refundable $100 housing deposit and signed an occupancy agreement at the Residence Life & Housing office in Lawrence 202.Students were able to select their current room for the upcoming year through MyHousing, a link on MyWCU.
Room Selection will be held March 19-24 for students currently living in University Housing and who did not receive a South Campus assignment. In the same way as the retention process, students are required to pay the housing deposit and sign the occupancy agreement. The last day to submit the required deposit and sign the agreement is March 18.
Upon doing so, between March 17-19, students will receive an email notification with instructions on how to choose a roommate and their assigned selection date and time. "Times are assigned according to the number of credits a student has earned as of January 1, 2008," according to Residence Life.
Graduate students will have the first choice and then down the line from seniors, juniors, sophomores, freshmen and new students. Within each of the class groupings, the times selected are done randomly by computer.
During the online process, students will be able to choose from rooms available after retention, their roommate, and their meal plan, which is required for all North Campus occupants and must be chosen before the room is selected.
Available online on the Residence Life & Housing webpage is information on the North Campus housing options and amenities including floor plans of each of the residence halls, which allow students to choose which building and floor would be right for them.
There is a detailed list of all eight Traditional Residential Facilities that includes which rooms and floors are male, female, and co-ed designated as well as their quiet hour policies.
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