Must Be an Eligible New Incoming Resident to Participate

1. Housing Application and Roommate Matching Process For New Incoming Residents Residence Halls, Suites & Apartments Fall 2011 – Spring 2012 Academic Year Must Be an Eligible New Incoming Resident to Participate

2. Table of Contents This presentation is organized as follows: • Introduction -Review of Freshmen and Transfer Student Housing Styles and Eligibility Requirements • Written Instructions For The Housing Application Process (Both Freshmen and Transfer Students) • Eligible residents can obtain their building, room and roommate information for Fall 2011 – Spring 2012 on Friday July 22, 2011 by logging-in to their MyHousing account • Written Instructions For The Roommate Request Process (For Incoming Freshmen, only)

3. Introduction New Incoming Freshmen The Department of Housing and Residential Life (HRL) currently manages twenty traditional residence halls, three apartment complexes and the Diversity House, exclusively for undergraduate students who wish to live on-campus at URI. These residences are conveniently located between the academic heart of campus – just steps from the University Library, Student Center, Dining Halls, the URI student post office and within walking distance to Kingston campus classrooms and offices – and the University’s recreational, entertainment and athletic facilities. Fifty-five hundred residents live in these on-campus facilities, three thousand of whom are freshmen. Further, ninety-two percent of all enrolled freshmen live on-campus at URI. Freshmen who are eligible for on campus housing through HRL will live with two other freshmen roommates in one of the thirteen traditional corridor based residence halls that comprise URI’s Freshman Village. These are co-ed buildings in which female and male rooms are arranged along either side of a centrally located corridor or hallway. These residence halls have been selected for Freshmen because their design encourages the kind of social interaction that helps new students make a smooth transition to their new home at URI. The average ratio of staff members to residents in these buildings is 1 to 25. There are two styles of buildings in the Freshman Village from which students may choose. Style #1 offers traditional, male and female specific, hallway bathrooms that are shared by the members of the hallway, and are maintained by the building’s custodial staff. Style #2 (also referred to as suite style) offers semiprivate bathrooms that are shared by the residents of each pair of adjacent rooms along a hallway, and must be maintained by the residents who share the bathroom. These means that the residents of the room must clean the bathroom themselves. These bathrooms are also male and female specific. Freshmen are invited to request specific roommates. Instructions for requesting roommates online has been provided in this presentation. Freshmen may also have a car on campus, however parking is limited. For more information on parking services for residents at URI visit uri.edu/parking.

4. Introduction To be eligible for on campus housing, first-semester incoming freshmen must pay both their enrollment and housing deposit and submit their housing application by The May 1st deadline. Information on how to apply for on- Campus housing and a University Meal Plan and to pay both deposits appears in the next section of this presentation. The combined amount for the Enrollment and On-Campus Housing deposit for instate, as well as out of state is $500.00 Living Learning Communities (LLC) group students, who are in the same academic college, have the same major or who have similar academic interests, in a residence hall, or several residence halls. The majority of the students residing in an LLC not only share common academic interests and attend some classes together, but also form study groups, share access to a Resident Academic Mentor (RAM), where applicable, and attend faculty sponsored programs within their residence. A RAM provides academic support to all residents of the LLC. Students living in an LLC not only make friends with other students with whom they share common academic but also with those with whom they will establish lifelong friendships. The College based Living and Learning Communities in place for the fall 2011 – spring 2012 academic year are: CELS, Arts & Sciences, Human Science & Services, Undeclared Major, Nursing and Engineering. For more information on the Living and Learning Communities that will be available for the 2011- 2012 academic year please visit housing.uri.edu. Transfer Students Although Transfer students are not guaranteed housing in the Residence Halls, Suites or Apartments, they are encouraged to complete a Transfer Student Application. Transfer students will be assigned to a room a space available basis only, in the order of the receipt of their application. These students will be contacted by HRL as spaces become available. It is for this reason that they should not pay the $200 Housing Deposit until instructed to do so by HRL. Please direct questions to a HRL Customer Service Representative at 401-874-4151. Transfer students who are interested in living on campus should also check with the FMA at 401-874-2557 to determine if space is available in any of the fraternities or sororities. For more information on other on-campus housing options for upperclassmen and for transfer students please visit housing.uri.edu.

5. Step – 1 Complete the Freshmen Student Application or Transfer Student Application & Pay $500 combined Enrollment & Housing Deposit or $300 Enrollment Deposit, only • Complete the Freshmen or Transfer Application A. Click “Continue to Application” from the Fall 2011 Housing Application description page, OR Select MyHousing at housing.uri.edu and Login to your MyHousing account Using i. Your URI ID # ii. Your Date of Birth in the form MM/DD/YYYY Please be certain to use the forward slashes B. Select ApplyOnLine i. Read the Housing and Dinning Contract ii. If you accept the terms of the contract click AGREE C. Select the either the Freshmen Student Application or Transfer Student Application reflecting your status D. Complete the Application and Click CONTINUE E. Go to www.uri.edu/dining and select a meal plan for next year • Pay $300 Enrollment and $200 Housing Deposit A. Go to uri.edu/es Please select “Billing and Payments” from the left hand menu then select “Admission Deposit /Refund Information”. Follow the directions on that page to pay your Fall 2011 $500 combined Enrollment Deposit and Housing Deposit or your $300 Enrollment Deposit, only. i. Select Deposit by Credit Card (MC, Discover, AMEX) sorry cannot accept payment by VISA OR ii. Select (ACH) to Deposit with your Checking Account

6. Step – 1 Complete the Freshmen Student Application or Transfer Student Application Login to MyHousing Remember to use the forward slashes Housing Applications Select “MyHousing” or follow the Housing Application link

7. Step – 1 Complete the Freshmen Student Application or Transfer Student Application Click “ApplyOnLine”

8. Step – 1 Complete the Freshmen Student Application or Transfer Student Application Select the “Freshmen Student Application” or the “Transfer Student Application” as appropriate…then click Next

9. Step – 1 Complete the Freshmen Student Application or Transfer Student Application If you agree to the terms of the Housing and Dining Agreement then select “I Agree”…then click the “Next button”

10. Step – 1 Complete the Freshmen Student Application or Transfer Student Application Step – 1 Complete the Freshmen Student Application or Transfer Student Application This example uses is the Freshmen Student Application Answer all of the questions on your application..then click “Complete Application”

11. Step – 1 Complete the Freshmen Student Application or Transfer Student Application Your Application is complete. Please be certain to pay your $500 combined Enrollment and Housing Deposit Housing Deposit

12. Step – 1 Pay $500 combined Enrollment & Housing Deposit or $300 Enrollment Deposit, only Select either Credit Card or ACH

13. Step – 1 Pay $500 combined Enrollment & Housing Deposit or $300 Enrollment Deposit, only This is the admission Deposit Gateway for a Credit Card Payment. Provide the requested information and then click the “submit” button at the bottom of this page and your Deposit will be paid

14. Step – 2 Select Roommates Forming a Group – selecting roommates. These steps must be completed by EVERY MEMBER of your group so that the requests will be reciprocal! As freshmen will be assigned to triple rooms…forming a group of three freshmen is ideal! Login to your MyHousing account at housing.uri.edu. a. Choose Room Selection from the left hand menu b. Choose Roommate Selection from the pop out menu c. Note the online help on the right hand menu d. In the search box you can search for another resident to add as a group member i. Eligible group members must be New Incoming Freshmen for the Fall 2011 –Spring 2012 ii. Eligible group members must have submitted the Freshmen Student Application by the 5/1/11 deadline iii. Eligible group members must have paid their Fall 2011 Housing Deposit by the 5/1/11 deadline e. Click the name of the resident who you want f. Next click the Continue button g. All group member selections must be reciprocal! i. This means that roommates who you select must accept your selection and must also request and be requested by all other members of the group. ii. Please note that the Roommate Selection utility in MyHousing will show incomplete group member matches and the reason for those incomplete matches. You should check this daily until this utility indicates that all group matches are complete. iii. Incomplete group member matches will prevent the roommates form being assigned together.

15. Step – 2 Select Roommates Login to MyHousing Remember to use the forward slashes Housing Applications Select “MyHousing”

16. Step – 2 Select Roommates Login to your MyHousing Account…then select MyHousing. This will take you to your MyHousing Account Home Page

17. Step – 2 Select Roommates This is the MyHousing Account Home Page for June Duck. This is where you can obtain your building room and roommate information for the fall 2011 – spring 2012 academic year. This information will be available on Friday July 22, 2011

18. Step – 2 Select Roommates Choose “Room Selection” from your “MyHousing” page Choose “Roommate Selection” from the pop out menu

19. Step – 2 Select Roommates Use the search utility in MyHousing to find the people who you would like to have as roommates. Use any combination of the fields to narrow your search. Please note that only eligible residents who have submitted their Freshmen Student Application and paid their $200 Housing Deposit will be found through this search utility.

20. Step – 2 Select Roommates Click the name of the student you want (Hortense Duck) Next click the “Continue” button To start your search again Click the “Cancel” button

21. You may remove a member or send a email reminder to include you in their group. If Hortense does not reply to June by July 5th then she MUST remove him from her group Notice that the utility indicates that this not a reciprocal request. To be reciprocal Hortense must reply from his MyHousing account to June that he wants to form a group You may now add more roommates to your group

22. This is an example of how roommate match problems are displayed in MyHousing. Freshmen should ideally be forming groups of three freshmen..as freshmen will be assigned to triple rooms.

23. This is a completely matched group of 4 residents. Again, this is only an example of what a correct roommate match looks like in MyHousing If you matches are correct then you are done. You may continue to change roommate requests through July 5th