SSU Housing Services, Room Changes

Changing Rooms

During the Year

Residents are allowed to change rooms during the academic year as long as the request is official and approved. The first opportunity to switch rooms will be the first week after school starts. Room changes are performed weekly upon the submission of an online request. Priority is based on availability and needs of the students. For safety and security reasons, students must stay in their assigned room until they have been approved to move.

End of Semester

An end of semester room change period will be available starting November 19th through December 2nd. This will allow current residents to have first choice at spaces that will become vacant due to cancellations before we make room assignments for new spring students. Vacanancies will be posted on this webpage starting around 10 am on Thursday, November 19th. Residents will complete the online Room Change request form and will be notified between December 2nd and 4th of the new assignment. Depending on the room selected, you may be able to move prior to the end of the semester or you may need to take all your personal belongings home.

Caution

Moving belongings to the new room prior to your scheduled date may jeopardize your eligibility to live on-campus in the future and may put your personal belongings at risk of being donated to a local charity.

Weekly Room Changes for Fall End November 13th

The last week to participate in a weekly room change for the Fall will be November 13th. Weekly room changes will resume the second week of the Spring semester. We do not complete any room changes the first week so that we can determine who is here and who did not show up. Generally, room changes work in the following way:

Submit an online Room Change Request form to Housing Services. You will need to use your Seawolf Username and password. (What you use for your email and registration.)
Housing Services will either contact you directly or forward the situation to Residential Life.
In some instances, room changes may not be automatic and will require intervention from Residential Life staff with potential agreements being established.
If the room change is approved then they would be given a few choices and if applicable, asked to check out the rooms.
The Student Resident will meet roommates and notify the Housing Office of the desired room no later than Thursday of that week.
The resident will then come in Friday after 1:00 p.m. to have their SSU Seawolf ID encoded with the new room so they can move over the weekend. They will be issued a temporary card for the old room which must be returned to Housing the following Monday.