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Please call us at (405) 325-2511, e-mail
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, or visit the office in Walker center, Rm. 126, and we will be happy to check on the status of your student’s application.
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Once your student has submitted his or her housing application and has been admitted to OU, we will send an e-mail to your student's OU e-mail address. The e-mail will contain a link to the freshman Housing and Food Services contract. If your student is an upperclassman, once we have received and processed their application, we will then hard copy mail a contract to the students permanent address.
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The housing contract is a nine-month contract. If a student is new at OU in the spring semester, the contract is for that one semester. Separate contracts are available for those taking summer classes.
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Students are encouraged to reserve a room earlier rather than later. The more quickly the following steps are completed, the more likely a student will be assigned the room type and roommate preferences he or she requested. To reserve a room, the student must be admitted to the university and have completed ALL of the following steps:
- Complete and return the application to Housing and Food Services along with the $30 Housing and Food Services application fee
- SIGN and return the Housing and Food Services contract
- PAY(or arrange to defer) the $175 Housing and Food Services advance payment.
The $175 payment is refundable if Housing and Food Services receives a written cancellation prior to June 15 (for fall semester occupancy) or Dec. 15 (for spring semester occupancy). If applying for financial aid, the student must still pay the $30 application fee, but may postpone the $175 advance payment by notifying Housing and Food Services of the potential financial assistance.
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Regents’ policy requires that all single, freshman students who are younger than 20 years of age, who do not have at least 24 hours of college credit, or who have not lived in university residence halls for at least two semesters live in a university residence hall for one academic year. Exemptions from this policy may be requested if a student is living with a parent within 50 miles, married, or has a special circumstance warranting the exemption. Any questions regarding this process, please contact Debbie Wells at (405) 325-1284.
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First, the 24 hours should not include advanced standing, CLEP or concurrent enrollment. The student must have attended college in residence. If all of those requirements are met, a student must still complete and submit an exemption application form.
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Yes, fill out an exemption application form. A parent must sign the exemption form and have it notarized.
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Please visit the Office of the Bursar in Buchanan Hall, Rm. 105, or you may pay via the web at pay.ou.edu.
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University policy mandates that all students must register their bicycles. Registration is free. Students should visit with OUPD to register their bicycles, or stop by the SafeWalk office located in Cate Center to register.
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Our Food Services are ranked among the best in the nation and we offer a wide variety of dining options to all students. Located conveniently across campus, students may eat at 22 different locations using their meal plan. Students living in the residence halls may select “all you care to eat” dining at the Couch Restaurants, where selections include Shanghai Stir Fry, Chick-Fil-A, Sooner Smokehouse, Athen's Cafe, the Vegetation Station (vegetarian and vegan options), dessert counter, Freshen's Yogurt, large salad bars, a deli line, and La Roma brick-oven pizza. Couch Restaurants has won national awards for the consistent high quality of services provided.
Students in the residence halls can also visit Cate Food Court, located within Cate Center, for a quick bite to eat.
Another option located in the Oklahoma Memorial Union, Crossroads, offers students a wide variety of fresh food and beverages 24 hours a day!
The choices do not stop here. Students, faculty and staff can find numerous fresh and healthy dining options that cater to individual tastes in a variety of places around campus.
Click here for more detail on campus dining options and meal plans.
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Yes, call us at (405) 325-2511 to add meal plan points to your student’s plan. Please have your credit card ready.
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We understand your concerns and will be happy to do a wellness check on your student. Please contact us at (405)325-2300 and we will direct your call to your student’s center. You can speak with the Center Coordinator and they will make sure the Resident Adviser (RA) on your student’s floor checks in on your student.
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Roommates are assigned on the basis of year in school according to preferences indicated on a student's housing contract.
Students may request a specific roommate on their contract. We try to honor all mutual-roommate requests, but we must receive them by June 15. Roommate requests received after that date might not be honored. Please note that both students must request the each other as roommates on the Housing and Food Services contract to be assigned as roommates. Freshman students who are not mutually requesting a roommate may participate in the Online Roommate Matching Questionnaire. Once we have received and processed the Housing and Food Services contract, an e-mail will be sent to the student's OU e-mail account with a link to the online form. The preferences indicated by your student through the online questionnaire will be used to assign roommates. |
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Roommate conflict can cause stress!
Encourage your student to share their concerns with their Resident Adviser (RA). Our RAs are well-trained in roommate conflict. If your student does not feel his/her concerns are resolved, please encourage them to contact their Center Coordinator. We have a variety of options from peer counseling to enabling students to change rooms. We are eager to facilitate meaningful communication and help develop lasting problem solving skills with all of our residents.
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Students should visit the main housing office in Walker Center, Room 126 to pick up a request form. E-mails will be sent granting or denying any room change requests within one week of being received.
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Housing and Food Services offers many employment opportunities. Each semester more than 700 students are employed in Housing and Food Services areas. For a detailed listing of all possible Housing and Food Services job positions, please click here.
The “Room and Board Program” is an innovative way for residence hall students to work in Housing and Food Services and pay for their full room and board for a double-occupancy room and a 12/200 meal plan or equivalent during the fall and spring semesters. The hours are flexible and can be arranged around the student’s schedule. For more information, please call Danna Todd at (405) 325-5128.
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Super Suites are exclusively for upperclass students located in Couch and Walker Centers. Super Suites can be shared by one, two or three upperclass residents. For more information and to check availability, please call (405) 325-2511, or visit the main housing office in Walker Center, Rm. 126.
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Yes, single rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis and are actually a double room with only one occupant. To check availability, please call us at (405) 325-2511 or visit the office in Walker Center, Room 126.
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Upperclass students have various living options.
Upperclass choices include:
- Live in the same room from last year
- Move to an exclusive upperclass community in any of the four housing centers:
Adams Penthouses (Adams 12)
Cate Village (Quad 2)
Couch Condominiums (Couch 2)
Walker Court (Walker 2W & 3W)
- Have an apartment in our newest housing community, OU Traditions Square East and West
- Live in a traditional apartment community,Kraettli Apartments.
- Reside at University Village if students are attending the Oklahoma City Health Sciences Center campus
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Kraettli apartments are traditional two-bedroom/one-bathroom apartments for single or married students and families, or faculty and staff members of the University of Oklahoma. Please check availability by calling (405) 325-2511 or stopping by the main housing office in Walker Center, Rm. 126.
For this apartment community there is a $30 application fee. An application may be picked up from the housing office or downloaded online from the forms and applications section of our website.
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Only one residential OU community offers a one-bedroom setup. University Village (in Oklahoma City) offers one-bedroom studios or two-bedroom townhomes for Health Sciences students.
OU Traditions Square offers two-bedroom and four-bedroom floorplans. Kraettli Apartments offer two-bedroom options. Click here for more information on campus apartment-style living.
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Tower rooms have suite-style bathrooms. Typically, four people share a bathroom and the responsibilities of cleaning it. The Quads have community-style bathrooms. However, a housekeeper cleans community bathrooms on a daily basis.
Each room is furnished with two twin beds, desks and study chairs. In addition, Expanded Basic Cable TV is provided in each residence hall room. All facilities are smoke free and convenient. Within the residence halls are such dining options as Burger King, Taco Mayo, Block and Barrel Deli, and Couch Restaurants. The Huston Huffman Physical Fitness Center also is located near the residence halls for easy student access.
With the exception of super suites, residence hall rooms house one or two students each. Each student has direct Internet access in the room through direct connections to the university’s networking backbone. Each student will need an Ethernet card in his or her personal computer. Also, wireless internet is presently available in Adams and Couch Centers. Students who do not have computers may use the 24-hour computer labs available on-site. The university provides students with a flexible OU e-mail account. The HUB, www.hub.ou.edu, is students’ primary electronic link to the campus community.
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We encourage students to personalize their rooms; however, please take a few details into consideration:
- Residents are prohibited from painting any surface in their rooms.
- The use of nails, screws, tacks, double-sided tape, paste, glue, fasteners, contact paper, etc., on doors, windows, ceilings, bureau drawers and bookshelves is strictly prohibited. These items damage building finishes.
- Students bring some limited personal furniture. In addition, moveable furniture provided to the students can be removed upon request to the Center Coordinator. Requests will be processed two weeks after check-in.
- Due to fire code, hanging paper, fabric or flammable substances on the outside of the room doors is strictly prohibited.
- Hanging any type of lights from the ceiling is strictly prohibited.
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Residence Life staff consists of resident advisers (RAs), programming assistants (PAs), resident directors (RDs) and center coordinators (CCs). The RAs are carefully selected live-in student staff members who have primary responsibility for guiding and advising residents. The RDs and PAs, who also live in the housing centers, report directly to a center coordinator. Their responsibilities include providing leadership in a housing area, coordinating daily administrative and maintenance activities, assisting in the advisement of hall government, and participating in program development. Each of the five University housing areas has its own Center Coordinator to oversee and assist the officers of the center’s student government in planning housing and center functions, supervises RAs and the RD, and is responsible for the general administration of the center.
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Year-round housing is available to students. The residence halls do not close for Thanksgiving or Spring breaks. Temporary housing during holidays may be available on a limited basis through Housing and Food Services for a nominal fee.
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Courtesy phones are available for use on each hallway of each floor within the residence halls. Long-distance requires either a personal long distance billing code that is obtained through the University’s Information Technology department or via a pre-paid calling card that students can purchase at most convenience stores.
In order to
activate your OU telephone account, you must sign up for a long
distance code, even if you do not plan on utilizing any long distance
services. You are invited to stop by the IT booth during Sooner
Orientation to sign up online. The rate for student telecom accounts is
$.07/minute for calls made within the United States. For information
about our new low international rates, go to http://outelecom.ou.edu.
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Quiet hours are observed in all houses/floors at the following times:
Sunday through Thursday: 9 p.m.-11 a.m.
Friday and Saturday: midnight-11 a.m.
Visitation hours are observed on Freshman houses/floors at the following times:
Sunday through Thursday: 11 a.m.-midnight
Friday and Saturday: 11 a.m.-2 a.m.
Housing and Food Services reserves the right to alter visitation privileges of students who fail to observe the visitation rules. Only those co-educational houses/floors comprising 100 percent upperclassmen have 24-hour visitation privileges. All security doors are locked by 10pm every night of the week.
Students of the opposite sex are prohibited from using shared bathrooms in the Towers and the applicable community baths in the Quads.
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Residents may receive citations from either the Resident Advisers or the Community Service Officers (CSOs) for violations of the Housing Handbook rules and regulations. Examples of these citations include violations of the visitation hours or possession of items prohibited in the residence halls. You could equate this citation to a speeding ticket. There is an appeals process that students can go through if they believe they were unfairly cited.
The office of Judicial Services handles all of the judicial process; this discipline process is handled by Judicial Services Advocates and is only for those students who violate the Student Code regulations while within Housing. The Judicial Services Advocates serve a prosecutorial role during the disciplinary proceedings. The Judicial Services Advocate protects the University's interests as they ensure the students are aware of their mistakes and pay restitution. One example of a violation which would cause a student to enter the disciplinary proceedings would be if they actively participated in vandalism of University Property.
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The University of Oklahoma assumes no financial responsibility for damages to, or loss of, the personal property of students. The University of Oklahoma departments of Housing and Food Services and Risk Management collectively recommend that students check their parents’ homeowner’s insurance policy to see if their personal items would be covered in the event of damage while living in a residence hall or an on-campus apartment at the University of Oklahoma. If a student is not covered by his or her parents’ homeowners insurance or if they wish to purchase additional coverage exclusively for the student, he or she may check with any general insurance agency for details on securing such insurance. These companies can be located by checking your local phone book. Other options are listed below in no particular order and without any implied recommendation by the University of Oklahoma. We have no “preferred” vendor.”
CSI Insurance Agency Inc.
316 Maxwell Road, Suite 100
Alpharetta, GA 30004
1-888-411-4911
www.collegestudentinsurance.com <http://www.collegestudentinsurance.com>
Haylor, Freyer & coon, Inc.
231 Salina Meadows Parkway
Syracuse, NY 13221-4743
1-800-289-1501
www.haylor.com/student <http://www.haylor.com/student>
National Student Services, Inc.
P.O. Box 2137
Stillwater, OK 74076
1-800-256-6774
www.nssinc.com <http://www.nssinc.com>
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Mattresses in Adams, Couch and Walker Centers are all 4"/6" polyfoam, measuring 36"x82".
Those mattresses in Cate Center are 4"/6" polyfoam, measuring 36"x75".
In order to assure that sheets fit mattresses accordingly, please be sure to purchase extra-long twin sheets.
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