ON-LINE HOUSING PROCESS

Living with a roommate within a community of peers will allow you to learn important life skills such as communication, problem solving, and decision making. Acquiring these skills will make you more marketable when you are interviewing with a potential employer as well as help you develop personally. Take advantage of this unique living and learning opportunity! National research studies show that students who live on campus during their college careers are more satisfied with their college experiences and:

• are more likely to be involved in campus life including intramurals, social groups, and community service;
• are more likely to perform better academically than those who live off campus;
• demonstrate higher graduation rates.

COMPLETE YOUR HOUSING PROCESS!

Getting Started: To access the Residence Life area of BannerWeb, you must know your Banner ID and PIN number, which will be mailed to you by the University Registrar. Once you receive this information go to www.jcu.edu/BannerWeb to login. Once you have completed your login, select Student Services and Financial Aid, then Residence Life and then Review Housing Contract.

STEP 1: Accept the housing contract.
You will review our housing contract online and accept the terms of agreement. The majority of students will accept the contract online. Please review the information prior to accepting the housing contract. Once the housing contract has been accepted it is binding for the academic year. You must accept the housing contract before you can access the on-line housing process.

You should print a copy of the housing contract, as well as any confirmation e-mails you receive throughout the housing application process, for your reference throughout the year.

NOTE:  If you are under 18 years of age you need to print and mail the housing contract to the Office of Residence Life. You must sign your contract, select a meal plan, and have a co-signature of either a parent or guardian prior to mailing the contract. The Office of Residence Life will e-mail you after the contract has been received to allow access in order to complete the on-line housing process.

STEP 2: Complete your housing preferences.
You will complete a series of questions in this section that identify preferences on items such as sleep time, study time, musical tastes, and organizational behavior. The questions were developed based on what we know is important to two people who will be learning to live together. In order to provide the best service possible, we ask that students – not their parents – complete this section, and that students be as honest as possible. You must accept your housing contract before preference questions may be answered.

STEP 3: Make a specific roommate request (optional).
This process will allow you to place a roommate request for another JCU student that has completed the online contract and preferences by searching for them by name. It is very important to remember that all roommates must have completed their online housing preferences and that their core preferences must match in order for the assignment to be granted. The preferences that must match between each roommate/suitemate include: residence hall preference, substance free floor, 24-hour quiet zone, and student smoking preference. Often students meet someone they would like to live with when they are at summer orientation. To accommodate this, students can make a specific roommate request until July 18, 2008, even if they have already completed their housing preferences.

Once you have placed a roommate request an e-mail will be sent to the JCU e-mail account of the potential roommate advising them that a roommate request has been offered to them. They will be required to accept or cancel the roommate offer using the same “Roommate/Suitemate Selection Menu” option. Please watch deadline dates carefully. If offers are pending after the listed deadline they will be automatically cancelled. Anyone without a requested roommate will be placed by the Office of Residence Life.

STEP 4: Confirming your assignment.
You will receive an e-mail when your hall and room are assigned by the end of July. You may then review more detailed information about your hall, room, and roommate name and contact information using the “Roommate Assignment Option” within BannerWeb.

If you would like more information about how to get to know your roommate, click here (PDF formatted - Adobe Acrobat Reader required).