Student Housing

Location

Regan Hall Circle & Parking Lot 25

Hours

M-F, 8am-5pm [closed noon-1pm]

Phone

(530)752-2033

Website

http://housing.ucdavis.edu/

The UC Davis Student Housing department manages on-campus housing, including all the residence halls, Orchard Park, Solano Park, Baggins End Domes, and campus Co-ops. The department also manages and disperses the Dean Witter Fund for UC Davis.

Student Housing has a Sustainability website to offer students resources to incorporate sustainable practices into their daily lives and also to showcase Student Housing's implementation of sustainable practices. A perk to living in the Residence Halls is that you receive a free mug — certainly a sustainable alternative to Styrofoam coffee cups.

For the 2009/2010 academic year, Student Housing is offering transfer students guaranteed housing. That is, they are offering space in residence halls (dorms) or a furnished "single-occupancy apartment space" lease. This is likely due in part to reduction in admission of freshmen.

Transfer students over the age of 24 cannot live in the residency halls thus they will be offered a single apartment space. "Single-occupancy apartment space" appears to mean a furnished bedroom in a 2-3 bedroom apartment. Furnishings probably cannot be declined. Furthermore, those transfer students over 26 may not be able to take advantage of guaranteed housing. But Student Housing is looking into the possibility of reserving apartments by contract for those older students. In other words, those transfers over 26 may want to start looking elsewhere if they don't want to be at the mercy of a rapidly evolving program.

Student Housing seems to be treating apartment leases in the way that they do the res halls in that they will require a lump sum payment for each quarter and require apartment dwellers to vacate on August 31st. Potentially guaranteed housing for transfers may only last 11.5 months and so the ability to re-sign a lease may not exist.

As of March 20th, no online application for housing was available for transfer students and details were apparently still being worked out and may change significantly. Call Student Housing and ask for Kathy for updates but check Student Housing's website first.

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Has anyone tried using VOIP (Vonage, AT&T CallVantage, etc) in one of the university dorms or apartments? Please let us know your experience. In my opinion, VOIP is cheaper and better than the traditional phone line. — AllenDahili

I know a few people who use Skype, and it seems to work in the dorm without any problems. —LeonardMarque

My experience with this organization has been such that I no longer hold it to be a competent policing agency. Yes, I was kicked out for inappropriately manipulating fire in the dorm. However, it's well-known that residents continue to break rules which have the potential for much more dire consequences (e.g. possessing and firing b.b. guns in the dorms, excessively drinking in the dorms), and that resident advisors (most commonly, the residents' own RA) turn a blind eye to these infractions. What really chaps my ass, though, is a series of events that happened today. The premise: I have a meal contract with University Dining, a separate entity from Student Housing. Today dinner was a special barbeque, held outside of the Tercero and Segundo dorms. I, wanting to enjoy this special meal with my friends from the dormitory, chose to eat at the Tercero event, which was held on Leach Beach. While eating, my friends noticed an area RA mugging my old roommate (who also got kicked out) and me, and later conversing with one of the adult, full-time Student Housing staff members. After we had disposed of our garbage, the adult Coordinator approached my roommate and me, pulled us aside, and questioned us as to what we were doing in the area, saying, 'I just wanted to make sure you weren't doing anything that would land you in trouble' and other such nonsense. This person was in possession of the mental processes necessary to deduce that we were within our rights to be in the area, given that dinner was being held there tonight. However, I am left brooding over the following qualms:

• Why didn't the RA who originally noticed us, not confront us directly over the matter?
  

• Moreover, even taking into account that current RA training methods may be inadequate, is it that difficult for an RA to realize that it is physically impossible for a student to not be in a dormitory area, when a meal from University Dining is to be served there?

Based on my overall experience with Student Housing, it does not seem unreasonable to me, to doubt the organization's competency in consistently training staff that are able at their job of advising residents. Rather, it seems as if many staff members simply strive to shine a positive light on themselves, through enforcing rules over all residents except their home floor's, and blindly turning trivia into issue with their superiors, disregarding a trait they should, as advisors and leaders, use at all times: logic. — LeonardMarque

When your housing contract was terminated, so was your meal plan. You should have gotten a prorated refund for the unused remainder of your meal plan. Furthermore, you're messing around with fire and they kick you out. They're wrong for that? Kindly DIAF. Tegwin puts up with enough of this type of crap. —WilliamLewis


Following my housing contract termination I was directed, by Student Housing, to obtain a separate meal contract with University Dining. For the majority of this year I've been eating meals at the Tercero, Segundo, and Cuarto Dining Commons without any problems. I do not question Student Housing's judgement in kicking me out- rather, I question RAs' motivations in selectively enforcing rules. Kindly read more closely that which you comment on, and while you're at it, don't groundlessly wish harm upon others. Also: I can only wish I'd talked to the Gwin Reaper- she's an angel compared to Courtney. —LeonardMarque