Chapter 09.08 - Residence Life and Student Housing

REGENTS’ POLICY
PART IX – STUDENT AFFAIRS
Chapter 09.08 - Residence Life and Student Housing

In order to provide students a supportive place to live and study, chancellors are authorized to designate facilities to be used for student housing, within the limitations of available facilities, resources, and personnel. This chapter and the accompanying university regulation refer only to facilities designated as student housing. Residence life programs provided with student housing will be designed to promote academic success and an awareness of educational, cultural, and social issues, and to contribute to student personal growth.
Each chancellor will establish MAU rules and procedures consistent with regents’ policy and university regulation regarding the operation and occupation of student housing and associated residence life programs, taking into consideration the housing needs of shortterm as well as semester-based instructional programs. All residents and their guests must comply with MAU rules and procedures pertaining to housing and residence life. Noncompliance may subject a resident to disciplinary action, including dismissal from student housing. The university will not permit or tolerate behavior toward residents of student housing that creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive living and learning environment.

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Each chancellor will establish MAU eligibility criteria for occupancy of student housing, grounds for removal from student housing, and limitations on the length of stay in student housing. Criteria may vary among campuses and will include academic status and performance and status of financial obligations to the university.
The opportunity to be considered for student housing will be provided in a manner consistent with regents’ policy, university regulation, MAU rules and procedures, and applicable law. The university may deny housing to a student on the basis of past or present behavior if, in the judgment of the senior student services officer or designee, such behavior might threaten university property or the health and safety of the residents.
The university has the exclusive right to make housing assignments. In making student housing assignments, consideration will be given by the university to such things as promotion of educational goals, student safety, student privacy interests, and the provision of housing for students' dependents.
Residents for particular housing facilities or locations within facilities may be selected with a preference for a certain interest or focus such as gender, class standing, academic performance, student organization membership, and academic, cultural, or other special inter