Housing Options Available

Room Reservation Rules 2013-2014 Some of our rooms have an additional High Point University investment, the investments for the 2012 – 2013 school year are: has a wide variety of *Standard: Our standard rooms consist of Belk, Finch, Millis, housing options available. North, Yadkin, Wesley, and McEwen halls and University owned houses. They are our traditional double rooms. No additional For the 2013-2014 school year the investment, included in the comprehensive fee. following buildings are available to *Standard Apartment: Double occupancy bedrooms in the upperclassmen: Point Place Apartments, University Village, Wilson Hall, North College Court, North College Terrace and North College • North College Terrace Townhomes. $2000 per year or $1000 per semester* • North College Court *Deluxe: • North College Townhomes Included are any three- or four-person bedroom suites in Blessing, York, The Village, a double room in University Center, - Pet Friendly Community and a single room in Finch, McEwen, Wilson, University Village, • The Village Point Place Apartments, North College Terrace, North College • University Village Court or North College Townhomes. $2500 per year or $1250 per • Wilson semester* • York - 1st and 2nd floor (Honor Scholar/ *Deluxe Plus: Double occupancy rooms at the Greek Village, Wellness Living) and Centennial Square. $3400 per year or $1700 per semester* - York 3rd and 4th (Honor Scholar Students ONLY) *Super Deluxe: Any two-bedroom suite in Blessing, York, • University Center #1 or The Village and a single bedroom in Centennial Square with a • 806, 812 & 818 Point Place semi-private bathroom. $4750 per year or $2375 per semester* • Finch Hall - Male Only *Luxury Single: A single-occupancy room in University Center. • Yadkin A single-occupancy room in Centennial Square with a private bathroom. $7250 per year or $3625 per semester* - Female Only • Greek Village *Additional investment over a standard double room • Centennial Square Room Reservation Process: need to be provided. If the request is approved, the Office of Student Life will assign that student 1. The housing deposit is not an extra fee-it will be their room assignment, and the student will not applied to tuition for the fall 2013 semester. (This go through the online room reservation process. deposit is refundable through May 1, 2013). All Special Housing Accommodation Forms a. The housing deposit is not an extra fee – it will must be submitted by February 15, 2013. be applied to tuition for the fall 2014 semester. 5. Students who are part of the Honors Scholar Program (This deposit is refundable through May 1, who desire to live in Wellness housing with students 2014). who are not part of the Honors Scholar Program will b. The housing deposit needs to be paid separately be able to elect to live in Wellness housing. Priority from any tuition payments. will be given to Honors Scholar students who have a c. Please note the housing deposit only holds a higher GPA. room reservation until the first due date for fall a. Students who are currently residing on the bills. If a student’s bill is not paid by the due date Honors Scholar floor and who are in the Honors their housing assignment will be removed, and Scholar Program are able to request to reside on once their account is paid in full they will be the floor again. assigned to what rooms are available at that time. b. Students who are part of the Honors Scholar 2. Each student must register for classes for the fall Program who desire to live in Wellness housing of 2013 by the end of April 2013 to maintain their with students who are not part of the Honors housing reservation. Scholar Program will be able to elect to live a. Any student that is not registered for classes by in Wellness housing. Priority will be given to the end of April 2013 will be removed from Honors Scholar students who have a higher housing, and will be assigned to what rooms are GPA. available after they have registered for classes. 6. Pet Friendly Living Community at North College Townhomes: Pets can provide both companionship and sense of community for students. As such, the Office of Student Life is allowing pets to be kept and maintained in North College Townhomes. a. If a student(s) is opting to live at North College Townhomes, please know that we require all pets to be registered with The Office of Student Life and to follow all policies and procedures to ensure a positive living experience for pet owners, their neighbors, and their pets. • Pets must be registered by completing the Pet Registration Form. • All residents of the townhome must complete the Pet Consent Form. 3. Any student who is academically ineligible at the end • Pets must meet North Carolina vaccination of the spring 2013 semester will be removed from and health standards. housing in May 2013. • Pets may not infringe upon the rights of a. If a student is removed due to being ineligible other students or community members. they will not be reassigned until they become • A pet, for the purposes of this policy, is eligible or until they go before the Admissions defined as a domesticated dog or cat. Committee in August to appeal. 7. Greek Housing: High Point University offers a house 4. Special Needs Housing: located in The Greek Village for the following Greek a. Any student who has special needs and organizations: requires specific requirements for their living a. Men environment will need to fill out a Special • Delta Sigma Phi • Pi Kappa Alpha Housing Accommodations Form in the Office of • Kappa Sigma • Pi Kappa Phi Disability Services. Medical documentation will • Beta Theta Phi b. Women their room if they reside in the following • Alpha Chi Omega • Phi Mu residential buildings: • Alpha Gamma Delta • 806 Point Place • Sigma Sigma Sigma • 812 Point Place • Kappa Delta • Zeta Tau Alpha • 818 Point Place In order to be eligible for the Greek Housing • The Village Signup each student must: • University Village • Be an active member of the above • Wilson Hall organizations • North College Terrace • Have a minimum cumulative GPA of • North College Townhomes 2.25 • North College Court c. Housing Process: The President of each • Centennial Square organization will submit a roster of • University Houses assignments for the rooms available to b. The students will go online through the the Office of Student Life. Any Greek online housing process and select their current student who is assigned a room reservation bedroom and will be assigned again for the in Greek housing does not need to go following academic year. through the online room reservation c. Students are only able to homestead their process. individual room if they have lived there for No changes will be made to any Greek two consecutive semesters. If students have housing assignment until after the entire homesteaded their individual bedroom, the online room reservation process has been student who homesteaded their room completed for all students. At that time, will be able to go online via if a student wishes to change their Greek www.highpoint.edu/housing and create a housing assignment, they must work with group. The group will consist of the students the Assistant Director or Director of Greek who they want to assign to the openings in Life to change their housing assignment. their suite. Once the group is formed and Each organization will also submit a confirmed, they will be able to go online and waitlist of students to assign to Assistant assign themselves to the group within the Director of Greek Life in the event that suite. Specific dates and times will be given for space becomes available. The students on students to homestead in particular buildings, this waitlist need to proceed through the as well as when they will go online and create a normal online housing sign up process. group to assign other students to the openings d. Filling Rooms: Each organization is in the suite. required to fill their room spaces to d. As the room reservation progresses, some capacity. If they cannot fill their houses students who wanted to “homestead” their to capacity, the organization will be rooms may not have done it at the proper responsible for the charges of the room time – they may have waited until after the or the organization will lose their right to homesteading period was over – depending on the spots. The Office of Student Life will if the room has already been assigned, they may determine this.

Housing Process:

8. Homesteading: Homesteading is defined as one student who has lived in the room for two consecutive semesters (fall 2012 and spring 2013) and they must not be on discipline probation. a. Students have the ability to “homestead” d. When it is the group’s appropriate turn to go online and select a room, they are able to view what rooms and locations are available that will accommodate their group. i. Once the group has been formed they are given a lottery number that correlates to a certain time slot. Students should reserve their room during the designated time slot, but if they are unable to do so, they can go online during the next available time slot. They will lose priority if they make a reservation during a later time slot. be able to keep their room. If the room has already 10. Off Campus Living: If a student is opting to live been assigned, then they will need to go through off campus, please know that we require all of the online room reservation process. our students to reside on campus until they have 9. Any student who has not yet been assigned a room will reached senior status in completed credit hours, or now be able to go online and secure a room for the commute from their parent’s permanent address. coming academic year. Any student considering living off campus, should a. Students will need to go online through the housing make an appointment in the Office of Student Life. portal at www.highpoint.edu/housing and form No housing assignments will be canceled to let a groups. student live off campus until they have completed i. A group is defined as one or more students that the Off Campus Living Contract and provided want to live together. documentation that they are commuting or have ii. One person will create a group and will invite reached senior status in credit hours. others to join the group. If you are invited to join a group, you must confirm that you want to join the group. You can also decline the group invitation. All of this is completed through the housing portal at www.highpoint. edu/housing. iii. No group can be larger than seven individuals; the smallest group can be one person. b. Groups are given priority based on the individual in the group that has the MOST number of credit hours. c. Each group is given a lottery number based on the student in their group that has the highest number of credit hours. Each lottery number will be associated with a time slot. i. Time Slots will be made available during the room reservation process and will correlate to the lottery numbers. Students will need to go online during their assigned time slot to get higher preference of rooms.

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