Gannon University

HOUSING SELECTION PROCESS

GANNON UNIVERSITY

2009-2010 ACADEMIC YEAR

Stage I 

Renewals – If a student is interested in renewing their housing contract for their present apartment for the 09-10 school year.

• At least one current resident must reside in the apartment next year
• All bed spaces must be filled and accounted for
• The housing renewal form must be completely filled out with the following information from each student
• Student name – printed legibly
• Student ID#
• Student signature
• Attached housing deposit receipt
• A contact person must be designated and include a local phone number
• The signed Housing Commitment form must be attached as well

The Housing Renewal form and Housing Commitment form must be returned to the Office of Student Living by 4pm on March 15^th.

Note – The commitment form is binding. To terminate the commitment form there is a $500 fee.

Stage II 

Change of Apartments – If you are currently living on campus and wish to change apartments next year. 

·        At least one current resident must reside in the apartment next year

·        Designate a contact person and include their local phone number

·        All bed spaces must be filled and accounted for

·        The completed Change of Apartment form must be completely filled out with the following information from each student:

·         Student name, printed legibly

·        Student ID #

·        Student signature

·        Attached housing deposit receipt Designated contact person (the person with the most consecutive semesters on campus)

·        The signed Housing Commitment form

The Change of Apartment and Housing Commitment forms must be returned to the Office of Student Living by 4p on Friday, March 18^th. 

Note – The commitment form is binding. To terminate the commitment form there is a $500 fee.

Change of Apartment Regulations 

·        Priority of change of apartments will be given to that group with the designated contact person having the most consecutive semesters in residence in University housing.

·        In case of a tie, the designated contact person with the highest overall GPA will be given preference.

·        In case of a tie with the overall GPA, the tiebreaker is the person with the next highest overall GPA in that particular group.

·        If it is a tie, the tiebreaker will be determined by a toss of a coin.

·        On March 16^th a listing of available apartments that have not been renewed will be posted outside the Office of Student Living.

·        Based on semesters in residence/GPA, each group will be assigned a time to change apartments. This listing will be posted outside the Office of Student Living on Monday, March 21^st.

·        The first day for change of apartments will be on Tuesday, March 30^th and will continue through Friday, April 1^st.

·        Only one person from the group needs to be present to during the assigned change of apartment time. If your representative misses the assigned time they will be allowed to select in the next schedule time period.

Guaranteed Housing Rates for University Owned Housing 

            Gannon will once again be offering students a guaranteed housing rate in University housing only.  This excludes the Boston Store and Harborview apartments. This arrangement is available to students who remain on campus for consecutive semesters after their sophomore year or fourth semester on campus. Students who received the guaranteed rate for this past year will receive the same rate for the 05-06 school year, provided the housing contract is for the same number of months. This year’s sophomores will receive the same rate for next year, provided the contract period is the same number of months.

Over-21 Housing 

            Students will be able to apply for Over-21 housing status at the start of the fall semester, August 2009.  Forms will be made available to residents when they pick up keys at check-in in August.  Qualified students will be required to abide by all of the rules that have been developed for Over-21 housing.

 Stage III 

Freshmen Lottery

 The lottery is mainly for freshmen, but upperclassmen can also be involved. The upperclassmen can be individuals who do not have enough people to fill an apartment (they would then have someone added to their group). They could also be individuals who are moving back to campus. If any person or group does not have enough people to fill an apartment, they will go to the bottom of the lottery process and will have a person(s) added to the group. The lottery is basically“luck of the draw”

Stage III Regulations 

·        All bed spaces must be accounted for. If there is a shortage, the person or group will go to the bottom of the lottery and the correct number of individuals will be added to complete the group.

·        The Housing Lottery form (green) must be completely filled out

·        All students’ names must be printed legibly and they must have a signature.

·        Each student must have the ID# included.

·        Each student must have an attached housing deposit receipt.

·        A contact person should be designated with a local phone number.

·        The signed housing commitment form must be signed and attached.

·        You should indicate preference of building and/or apartment(s) on the back of the green form. If you do not or your choices have been filled you will be assigned an apartment.

·        April 4^th – Students can start to pick-up green Lottery forms.  A list of apartments that are available will be posted outside the Office of Student Living.

·        The lottery will take place on April 17^th, at 9pm in Zurn 104.

·        Any first or second semester students who have a housing obligation and have not participated in any part of the housing process will be assigned to an apartment.

All Lottery forms can be turned in at any time between the April 4 and 4pm on April 15^th. 

Note – The commitment form is binding. To terminate the commitment form there is a $500 fee.

 Miscellaneous Notes 

·        Nine month buildings are 632 Sassafras, Wehrle, Finegan, University, and AGD House. All other buildings are 11-month buildings.

·        All buildings  except Harborview are non-smoking.

·        The housing deposit is non-refundable.

·        The Housing Commitment form is binding for the duration of the contract.  There is a $500 termination fee applied is a student does not reside in the room/apartment, for whatever reason presented this is applicable to fifth semester students and beyond.

·        The termination fee can also be charged to third and fourth semester students who have the housing obligation.  In addition, the student, if found to be enrolled and living off-campus, will also be obligated for one or both semester’s room charges.