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WHERE GATORS LIVE. 2017-20182017-2018 COMMUNITYCOMMUNITY STANDARDSSTANDARDS UF HOUSING & RESIDENCE EDUCATION - COMMUNITY STANDARDS TABLE OF CONTENTS 7. WELCOME 19. UNIVERSITY SANCTIONS Welcome to Campus Conduct Sanction Definitions Educational Sanction Definitions 8. RESIDENCE HALL STAFF RA / RCA 20. SINGLE STUDENT HOUSING Peer Mentor COMMUNITY STANDARDS Senior Clerk P.01 Noise Graduate Hall Directors P.02 Alcohol Area Coordinator P.03 DHNet Internet Services Residence Entrepreneurial Director P.04 Tobacco Assistant / Associate Director of Housing P.05 Failure to Comply for Residence Life P.06 Security P.07 Locks 9. GRADUATE & FAMILY HOUSING STAFF P.08 Destroying, Damaging or Tampering with Property Community Assistants P.09 Windows and Window Screens, Objects from Student Assistants Windows, and Restricted Areas Graduate and Family Housing Staff P.10 Elevators Area Coordinator P.11 Visitation and Room Guests Assistant Director for Graduate and Family Housing P.12 Room Transfers 10. CONDUCT PROCESS & PROCEDURES P.13 Room, Floor / Section and Kitchen Responsibility Documentation P.14 Furniture Hearing Bodies P.15 Lofts / Water-beds Conduct Meetings P.16 Pets Administrative Review P.17 Pest Control Administrative Hearing P.18 Room Decoration Policy P.19 Fire Safety 15. YOUR RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES P.20 Firearms, Weapons, Fireworks, Explosives, Rights of the Victim and Dangerous Chemicals Rights of the Accused P.21 Bicycles Advisors P.22 Recreational Wheeled Devices Appeals P.23 Motorized Vehicles The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act P.24 Posting Signs and Information in Public Areas Of 1974 (FERPA) / Confidentiality of Records P.25 Solicitation Parental Notification P.26 Telephone, Antennas, and Cable TV P.27 Community Relationship and Responsibility PHOTO BY UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COVER PHOTO BY UF NEWS BURO TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 UF HOUSING & RESIDENCE EDUCATION - COMMUNITY STANDARDS 31. GRADUATE & FAMILY HOUSING COMMUNITY STANDARDS P.28.01 Alcohol P.28.02 Apartment and Common Areas P.28.03 Appliances / Furniture P.28.04 Automobiles, Motorcycles, Mopeds, Scooters, Boats and Trailers P.28.05 Bicycles P.28.06 Communicable / Controlled Illnesses P.28.07 Construction P.28.07 Destroying, Damaging, or Tampering with Property P.28.09 DHNet Internet Services P.28.10 Windows and Window Screens, Objects from Windows, and Restricted Areas P.28.11 Failure to Comply P.28.12 Fire Safety P.28.13 Firearms, Weapons, Fireworks, Explosives, and Dangerous Chemicals P.28.14 Grounds and Gardening P.28.15 Guests P.28.16 Laundry P.28.17 Locks P.28.18 Noise P.28.19 Operation of Business P.28.20 Community Responsibility P.28.21 Pest Control P.28.22 Pets P.28.23 Occupant Responsibilities P.28.24 Posting Signs and Information in Public Areas P.28.25 Security P.28.26 Solicitation P.28.26 Tobacco P.28.28 Subleasing P.28.29 Swimming Pools P.28.30 Telephone, Antennas, Satellite Dishes, & Cable TV P.28.31 Unsupervised Children 38. THE CONTINUUM HOUSING 42. INFINITY HALL COMMUNITY STANDARDS COMMUNITY STANDARDS P.30.01 Student Room and Common Areas P.29.01 Alcohol P.30.02 Appliances / Furniture P.29.02 Apartment and Common Areas P.30.03 Motorized Vehicles and Bicycles P.29.03 Appliances / Furniture P.30.04 Communicable / Controlled Illnesses P.29.04 Automobiles, Motorcycles, Mopeds, P.30.05 Construction Scooters, Boats, and Trailers P.30.06 Destroying, Damaging, or Tampering with Property P.29.05 Bicycles P.30.07 Windows and Window Screens, Objects from P.29.06 communicable / Controlled Illnesses Windows, and Restricted Areas P.29.07 Construction P.30.08 Failure to Comply P.29.08 Destroying, Damaging, or Tampering with Property P.30.09 Fire Safety P.29.09 Windows and Window Screens, Objects from P.30.10 Guests Windows, and Restricted Areas P.30.11 Laundry P.29.10 Failure to Comply P.30.12 Locks, Keys, and Security P.29.11 Fire Safety P.30.13 Noise P.29.12 Firearms, Weapons, Fireworks, Explosives, and P.30.14 Guest Responsibilities Dangerous Chemicals. P.30.15 Pest Control P.29.13 Guests P.30.16 Smoking / Tobacco P.29.14 Laundry P.30.17 Firearms, Weapons, Fireworks, Explosives, P.29.15 Locks and Dangerous Chemicals P.29.16 Noise P.30.18 Pets P.29.17 Occupant Responsibilities P.30.19 Solicitation P.29.18 Operation of Business P.30.20 Community Relationship and Responsibility P.29.19 Pest Control P.30.21 DHNet Internet Services P.29.20 Pets P.29.21 Posting Signs and Information in Public Areas 48. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA CODE OF CONDUCT P.29.22 Solicitation Code of Conduct P.29.23 Smoking University Policy, State, and Federal Law P.29.24 Subleasing Services P.29.35 Swimming Pools Annual Review P.29.06 Telephone, Antennas, Satellite Dishes, and Cable TV 55. USEFUL TELEPHONE NUMBERS TABLE OF CONTENTS 5 UF HOUSING & RESIDENCE EDUCATION - COMMUNITY STANDARDS The Mission of the Department of Housing and Residence Education is to provide well-maintained, inclusive, community oriented facilities where residents and staff are empowered to LEARN, INNOVATE, and SUCCEED. WELCOME Welcome to the Department of Housing and Residence Education at the University of Florida. We hope that the coming year in your new home will be exciting, challenging, and rewarding. Housing staff members strive to provide a supportive living environment that encourage students to succeed in the classroom and grow as individuals. This handbook is designed to give an overview of the University of Florida Housing and Residence Education Community Standards and to help prepare you for the upcoming year. These policies have been established in the best interest of the residental community at large in accordance with other university regulations, local, state, and federal laws, and input from previous residents. FOR MORE INFORMATION, call the Office for Conduct and Community Standards at 352-392-2171 x10141 or send questions via email to [email protected]. 7 UF HOUSING & RESIDENCE EDUCATION - COMMUNITY STANDARDS RESIDENCE HALL STAFF RESIDENT ASSISTANT / RESIDENTIAL RESIDENCE ENTREPRENEURIAL DIRECTOR COLLEGE ADVISOR (RA / RCA) ( RED) The RA / RCA is one of the first individuals residents meet The residence Entrepreneurial Director is a full-time live-in when they arrive on campus. RAs / RCAs are students who housing staff member who has administrative responsibility have been carefully selected and specially trained to help for Infinity Hall. The RED is responsible for selecting, residents, roommates, and floor-mates learn more about supervising, and evaluating staff, administering the the university, each other, and themselves. Residents can conduct process, liaising with campus and community approach their RA / RCA with questions, comments or partners, and overseeing programming efforts in the concerns regarding the campus, the residence hall, and residental area. academic or personal matters. Since the RA / RCA is a full-time student, you may occasionally find that they are AREA COORDINATOR (AC) not always available. Should an emergency arise, there is The Area Coordinator is a full-time live-in housing staff always a Graduate Hall Director (GHD) or professional staff member who has administrative responsibility for on duty just a phone call away. Contact the area desk residential area housing consisting of 950-1,200 residents. for assistance. The AC is responsible for selecting, supervising, and evaluating staff, administrating the conduct process, SENIOR CLERK (8 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.) coordinating a 24-hour desk operation, and overseeing programming efforts in the residence area. The Senior Clerk is located at the area desk. Senior Clerks give directory information, answer student questions, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR RESIDENCE LIFE provide room and building key service, supervise services AND ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF HOUSING FOR for documenting, receiving and distributing confidential RESIDENCE LIFE (ADH) letters and other official notices to students. If you need The Assistant Director and Associate Director of Housing to contact an RA, GHD, professional staff, area government for Residence Life have comprehensive administrative official, Assistant Director of Housing, custodial or responsibility for housing areas consisting of 3,700 maintenance staff member, the Senior Clerk can help you. undergraduate students. The ADH is the primary facilitator In addition, Senior Clerks also handle vending machine for the development of a learning environment for his/ refund process and are responsible for cash refunds to her residential area. She / He directs, supervises, and / students who lose money in various machines. or coordinates all services related to the operation of the residence halls in their area. GRADUATE HALL DIRECTORS (GHD) A Graduate Hall Director is a graduate student who lives in the residence hall and is responsible for supervising RAs / RCAs, advising the area government and / or council, initiating and implementing on-going training and staff development activities, serving as conduct hearing officer, responding to emergency and crisis situations, and assuming weekend duty responsibilities. GRADUATE & FAMILY HOUSING STAFF COMMUNITY ASSISTANTS (CA) COMMUNITY COORDINATOR The Community Assistant (CA) staff consists of students FOR THE CONTINUUM and residents in Graduate and Family Housing. Their primary responsibilities are to act as a resource to the The Community Coordinator for the Continuum is residents of the village and to be directly responsible for a full-time live-in staff member who is responsible a variety of community development activities. for a housing area of graduate