Room Consolidation
The consolidation process occurs after the census and room-switch day are complete. No room changes are allowed from move-in day until room-switch day.
What is the consolidation process?
Consolidation requires those students in under-assigned rooms or apartments to move to a new space with a roommate or to accept a new roommate. The consolidation process occurs because the University is obligated to maximize bed space for new and returning students and to be as equitable as possible. When students sign the housing agreement, they agree to live in a double room with another individual. We hold all students accountable to this for several reasons:
- To provide students with the full college experience by allowing them to experience the learning opportunities of living with a fellow Spartan
- To ensure that residents pay for the room and living arrangements for which they agreed
- To provide for the safety and security of all individuals living on campus
How does the consolidation process work?
Students who have not been granted a designated single room but find themselves without a roommate will be subject to room consolidation. After room-switch day occurs, all students still without a roommate will be consolidated by the Office of Residential Life and given email instructions about how and when to move in the following week. If your roommate leaves for any reason during the semester, you will be required to consolidate. Any new vacancy in a room after consolidation will not be required to consolidate for the duration of that semester, but any following semesters (including January Session) will require consolidation. Simply waiting or stalling any consolidation move in the hopes that consolidation will not happen will result in disciplinary action.
Students in these circumstances will be given the following options (provided no students have yet to be moved from any temporary housing):
- Have another student who is living alone move in with them.
- Move into a room that is occupied by another student living alone.
When conflicts as to moving occur, the student with the least number of earned credits will be required to move. First-year students must consolidate with another student living alone. Students who lose their roommates, creating a new vacancy after the consolidation process will not be subject to consolidation but could still receive a roommate at any time and must leave half of the room ready for a new roommate at a moment’s notice. Students living in three- and four-person rooms or apartments which are not filled to capacity will also be subject to consolidation.
Students who deliberately attempt to remove a roommate in order to obtain a single may be required to move from the existing room into another double-occupancy arrangement, and may be subject to disciplinary action. Students who fail to consolidate may be subject to disciplinary action. The University reserves the right to make changes in the residency assignments, if necessary, for the most effective accommodation of the student body.