UNK offers many types of housing to suit your lifestyle, whether you are looking for the traditional college experience in community style halls or you'd like to mix it up in suite style housing. Perhaps your looking for an apartment conveniently located to campus in a great neighborhood? Take a look, and find yourself at home...
Here are a few things to keep in mind as you transition to living on campus:
Roommate
Agreements
Residents
who are assigned roommates are asked to fill out a roommate agreement; this
three part agreement provides both roommates the ability to state lifestyle preferences
and personal boundaries to which both parties agree. Some examples are:
Guests
Door Locking
Housekeeping
Waking up and going to sleep
Music
Other
personal preferences are included as well. The purpose of this agreement is to
create an atmosphere of mutual respect and understanding between residents who
share a living space.
If
a conflict were to arise, the RA would use this agreement as a starting point to
resolve any issue or complaints and to generate a solution that is agreed upon by
both residents.
Room Mediation
It
is required to attempt and is strongly encouraged that the mediation process be
done if a room disagreement is to occur.
The
mediation process is as follows:
Both
roommates will set up a time with their RA. The RA will follow the mediation
form, found in the appendix of the Office of Residence Life Staff Manual. After
the roommates have generated a solution, they will be asked to follow through
with this solution for a week at which point another meeting with the RA and
possibly the Graduate Hall Director (GHD) or Complex Director (CD) will be held.
If the solution the roommates generated still is not working a possible move
may result.
*Please
know that no guarantees are given but Residence Life will try their best to
create a great living experience for all students that UNK houses.
Room
Change Process
The
University of Nebraska Kearney strongly encourages that when wanting a room
change you follow the following steps:
Go to the hall you want to
live in and request to put on their wait list or to see if there is an open
space.
If there is an open space. Go to
your current Graduate Hall Director / Complex Director (GHD/CD) where
the room change form will be utilized (see appendix).
From there you will take the room
change form to your new CD/GHD.
The CD/GHD will complete the
form and check the resident in to his or her new space (filling out
the RCF and receiving new keys).
After signing the new RCF, the
resident has three business days to complete the move from their old room to
their new one.
Example: if they sign the
paperwork on Monday they have until Thursday to complete the move
After the resident has removed
all belongings from the room, he or she will formally check out with
an RA.
The RA will review the
previous room RCF and if any damage is done to the room that will be
assessed. During this process the return of the room and mailbox key is
required unless the move is to URN/URS.