Residence Life

The Annual Housing Lottery

The Housing Process

The housing process is the method whereby students reserve a room for the following academic year. Please read this information carefully as it will explain your role in selecting your room for the upcoming school year.

The housing process will begin in March. In your campus mailbox you will find the housing brochure, a blank health information sheet and a mandatory floor meeting announcement.

Progressive Independent Living: Each year students are allowed a greater degree of responsibility and freedom in their living areas. This may be referred to as "Progressive Independent Living."

Traditional Housing: By design freshman and sophomores live in traditional housing. These traditional facilities consist of large halls with community bathrooms and a shared lounge. Open house hours within traditional areas are from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Tuesday and 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. on Friday and Saturday.

Intermediate Housing: Sophomores and Juniors live in intermediate housing. These residences consist of pods or apartments, which allow groups of students to live together around a common lounge and bathroom. These areas are air-conditioned and have an additional open house time on Sundays from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Students living in Intermediate Housing also have the option of forming Theme Covenants to enhance their living/learning experience. This form of living is explained further below.

Upper Division Housing: Juniors and Seniors in good standing with the college are eligible to live in upper division housing. Upper division housing is made up of college owned houses and and the Tower Apartments. Students in these areas have a high degree of responsibility for their living space including providing their own custodial services. Students in the Tower Apartments also have the option of being off the meal plan. Open house hours for upper division housing are from 9 a.m. to Midnight Sunday-Thursday and 9 a.m. to 1 a.m., Friday and Saturday. Students living in upper division housing have the opportunity to form Academic Covenants, which allow them to study a topic as part of their living arrangement to enhance their living/learning experience.

Covenants

For over twenty years the college has offered the opportunity for students to fully integrate their classroom and living experience in the from of the Spanish House program. Students living in the Spanish House earn course credit for learning about the Spanish language and culture while living together, speaking Spanish and preparing cultural meals. In 2001, to encourage student groups to participate in integrated communities of living/learning integration, the Office of Student Development allowed students to form both Academic and Theme Covenants as part of the housing proces.

In response to student demand balanced by the need to maintain a high quality of Academic Covenants there are only eight opportunities for covenant living in the upcoming academic year.

In intermediate housing, there will be four opportunities for Theme Covenants. In the College Avenue Apartments, two apartments on the second floor will be reserved for two groups of eight women. Two apartments on the first floor will be reserved for eight men.

In Upper Division housing there will be four opportunities for Academic Covenants. In the Tower Apartments two apartments will be reserved on the east side for women and two apartments on the west side for men.

Academic Covenants:
An Academic covenant is an independent study course taught by a professor in the student's living space. Students must enroll for at least one credit during Fall and Spring semester. Covenants must meet all requirements of an independent study course as outlined in the Faculty handbook and the College Catalog.

NOTE: All Academic Covenants must be signed by the sponsoring faculty member as well as the Dean of Instruction prior to review by the Student Welfare Committee.

Students applying for the four Academic Covenants in Tower Apartments must be upper division eligible and submit the following forms to the Office of Student Development by April 8:

• Basic Living Agreement
  
• Housing Plan
  
• Course Syllabus covering both Fall and Spring Semester
  
• Housing Point Sheets for All members
  (These forms will be available in the Office of Student Development in March)

The course syllabus must be approved like any independent study course. This process may be lengthy so speak to your sponsoring professor as soon as possible. Applications for Academic Covenants will be reviewed by the Student Welfare Committee. Approved Covenants will then be ranked by housing points. If less than four Academic Covenants are approved the remaining spaces will be filled in the Upper Division Lottery.

Theme Covenants:
A theme covenant enables students to live together while being mentored by a member of the campus community. Students must develop an activity plan with their mentor that outlines the times when they will interact around the topic of their choosing.

Students applying for the four Theme Covenants in the College Avenue Apartments must be junior status and submit the the following paperwork to the Office of Student Development before April 8:

• Basic Living Agreement
  
• Housing Plan
  
• Activity Plan
  
• Signed Mentor Agreement
  (These forms will be available in the Office of Student Development in March)

All applications will be reviewed by the Student Welfare Committee and rated by the Committee in the areas of organization, spiritual development; academic development, and creativity on a 5 point scale (5 being the highest). In all, a maximum of 20 points can be earned which will be added to the group's housing points to make a final TOTAL points.

Non-Covenant Housing

All housing spaces not reserved for covenant living will be assigned based on housing points in the Upper Division Housing Lottery, Intermediate Housing Lottery and Traditional Housing Lottery.

Single Rooms

If you are interested in living in one of the limited number of single rooms on campus you must submit a written request to the Office of Student Development before April 8. On April 14 the single room lottery order will be announced based on housing points. Students with medical needs will be given priority. Students must attend the single room lottery on April 4th to claim their single room.

Lottery Nights

On the night of each lottery students interested in signing up for a room will bring their point sheet and the point sheet of their respective roommates. Only one roommate must attend, but they must bring all other roommate point sheets. Upon arriving at the lottery a CRE will check the point sheets and have the student complete a Point Total sheet. The student will list the roommates on this sheet and choose a number. The point sheets are then attached to the point total sheet and put in order by their point totals. In the event of a tie the group closest to a pre-selected lottery number gets priority.

Once all sheets have been collected for a lottery, the groups will be announced in order. In lottery order the groups may proceed to the sign up room to choose their space. Once the spaces are full all point sheets are returned and sheets are taken for the next lottery. If no members of a roommate group are able to attend the lottery they may choose a proxy to attend in their place. A proxy is a person you designate to select a room for you in your absence. The proxy must present point total sheets and proxy sheets for all members of the group to act on their behalf.

Housing Points

The order of housing selection is primarily based on housing points. Students earn housing points by accumulating academic credits. The amount of credits earned by the end of the spring semester determines the number of housing points each person receives.

1 point - Freshman (<30 credits)
2 points - Sophomores (>30 credits)
3 points - Juniors (>60 credits)
4 points - Seniors (> 90 credits)
5 points - Super Seniors (> 120 credits)
1 point given to RCs
1 point given to students who qualify for Dean's List

In addition to these points, one extra point is given for students who serve as an RC the preceding year.. This is done because they are unable to choose their housing location the previous year.

Off-Campus Housing Policy

Greenville College embraces a residential philosophy. This means that we believe that a critical part of the GC experience of becoming liberally educated requires us to live in community. Greenville College's residental philosophy is tied to a financial component therefore marring both finance and philosophy. Exceptions to this policy therefore are rare and are typically only approved if an appeal meets one of the following criteria: Living at home / living with a relative; student teaching (at least 25 miles away from campus); significant personal/financial hardship; part-time student, 25 years of age or older.

It is your responsibility to make sure you are involved in the housing process if you apply for off-campus living and are denied. Off-campus applications are due April 14.

Housing Timeline

March 22 - Housing Paperwork Available
March 26- April 6 - Mandatory Floor Meetings about Housing Process
April 14 - Academic / Theme Covenant Paperwork Due
April 14- Single Room Requests Due
April 17 - Theme / Academic Covenants Lottery Order Announced
April 17 - Single Room Lottery Order Announced

April 19 - Upper Division Housing Lottery & Single Room Lottery

• 5 Person Apartments - Tower Apartments (6 groups of 5)
  
• Hite House (1 group of 6)
  
• Schroeder House, Rasler House (2 groups of 5)
  
• Hoiles House (1 group of 3), (4 groups of 2), (1 group of 4)
  
• Dubach House (3 groups of 3)
  
• Luzader House (5 groups of 2)
  
• Meyers House (3 groups of 2), (3 single rooms)
  
• Tenney Basement

April 26 - Intermediate Housing Lottery

• 8 Person Apartments - College Avenue Apartments (6 groups of 8;  1 group of 6))
  
• 4 Person Rooms - Tenney Hall (8 groups of 4; 1 group of 5)
  
• 2 Person Rooms - Tenney Hall, Kinney Hall

Facilities by Gender

Rules to Remember

To facilitate students moving out of spaces needed for freshman, room squatting will not be allowed.

Each housing lottery will not close until all rooms are full. For example all intermediate quads must be filled before we fill any intermediate doubles.

Attempting to defraud the housing process may result in loss of room selection rights.

Traditional Housing Spaces will only be made available to returning students if all Upper Division and Intermediate spaces are filled.

As outlined in the Student Handbook, if we encounter a change in freshman admission trends we may move you to an alternate location. if this occurs we will make reasonable efforts to contact you over the summer.

The College reserves the right to move any student to any location at anytime for any reason as outlined in the student handbook.

Reserved Spaces

Two facilities will be reserved during the housing process this year to accommodate a possible dramatic change in the gender of the freshman class. 3rd floor of the College Avenue Apartments and Hoiles House will be held until late in the summer when when admissions trends have stabilized. During housing signups both men and women will be able to put their names on waiting lists for these spaces. In the summer when these two facilities are assigned students on the waiting list will automatically be moved from their spaces in traditional housing and moved to these spaces.

In an attempt to meet the projected increased number of students in housing, we have added an additional three reserved spaces to the Housing Lottery. These three spaces are Upper Division Houses that students will be able to put their names on a waiting list for should we need to utilize the space. In the same fashion as our reserved spaces in the past, a determination will be made in the summer whether to use these spaces and students on the waiting list will automatically be moved into these spaces.

Endorsed by:
Greenville College Student Association
Student Welfare Committee

Last updated: April 3, 2006