Housing and Housing Assignments

The Residence Life & Housing Office is responsible for the management of campus residences. This office assigns housing to first-year and transfer students and also handles provides furnishings and determines opening and closing times for the residences.  Incoming first-year and transfer students will complete a housing application.  In the housing application, each person will share their preferences for key compatibility questions and how they wish for a roommate to present in those same areas.  If incoming students have identified an intended roommate, we do permit this to occur.  Centre requires that the match be a mutual selection, which means one individual creates a roommate group and the other individual must accept the group in order for the two to be paired together. 

For returning students, housing is assigned through an annual housing lottery, administered in the spring term.  The lottery is based on class year, with rising seniors receiving first preference, rising juniors second, and rising sophomores third.  Students assigned to a room are obligated to pay the room charge for all terms in which they are enrolled within a given academic year. An additional fee is applied for single rooms or for living in a double room without a roommate.

If at any point, a resident begins to have difficulty with one or more roommates, we encourage them to participate in a roommate mediation process with their RA or RD to discuss their concerns. Should roommates desire a room change, it is our policy that the roommate desiring the change moves.   If both roommates desire a change and cannot agree who will move, the Residence Life Housing Office will toss a coin to determine who moves.