Frequently Asked Questions – Parents

No, only first-year students are required to have a meal plan. If a student would like to select or change their meal plan, they would contact Eagle Dining.

The only animals allowed in on campus residence halls are service and assistance animals and non-carnivorous fish housed in an aquarium that is 10-gallons or less. Guests and visitors are not allowed to bring pets into the residence halls.  Students requesting an accommodation of a service or assistance animal should contact the main housing office to discuss the process for registering the animal with University Housing and the Student Accessibility Resource Center.

Lofts are not allowed in any of the halls.  The only exceptions are the provided junior loft beds in Centennial Place, Compass Point, Eagle Village, Freedom’s Landing, University Crossings, and Windward Commons. Kennedy Hall is provided with loftable beds and bedrails. The bedrails should not be removed if the bed is in the lofted position.

No.

Your student can have guests visit at any time and guests of the opposite gender may stay overnight. Overnight guests must be in compliance with the roommate agreement and university housing guest policy. All overnight guests must be registered with the hall office and may only stay overnight for three nights. Windward Commons on the Armstrong Campus is the only residence hall where guests must be checked in and out at the front desk of this community.

Depending on available space and after every effort has been made to resolve the conflict between your student and his/her roommate, yes, your student can move.

Statesboro Campus: The residence halls are closed during the Winter Break except in Centennial Place, University Villas and Freedom’s Landing. If your student does not live in one of these spaces, they will have to make other arrangements for housing during the winter break period.

Armstrong Campus: All residence halls are closed during the Winter Break. Windward Commons is additionally closed during the Fall/Thanksgiving and Spring Breaks. Residents of the Armstrong Campus will be required to apply for any break stay. Residents will be notified of approval to stay via email and charges may be assessed to their student account. More details regarding break stay will be sent via student email at least three weeks prior to the break period.

No. Your student does not have a curfew.

No. Your student does not need a computer. On the Statesboro Campus, all residence halls have computer labs and most of them are open 24 hrs. On the Armstrong Campus, residence halls are not equipped with computer labs.  However, if your student is staying in a residence hall whose computer lab is not opened 24hrs or does not have a computer lab, students are welcome to use computer labs elsewhere on campus, including the library and designated study spaces on each campus.

Though a computer is not a necessity, it is a very useful tool to have. For more information about on-campus computer services, please visit https://its.georgiasouthern.edu/student-quick-start-guide/

The $150 housing application fee is non-refundable. The cancellation schedule for cancelling your housing on campus is based upon the date of cancellation. The fees can found outlined in your housing contract. Current and future year contracts can be found online on the University Housing Contract website.

If you have any questions regarding the terms of the housing contract, please contact our office at 912-478-5406.

Depending on the hall, co-ed halls are divided either by floor, or by wing or by floor and wing. All residence halls on the Georgia Southern Campus are co-ed.

There are several ways in which this can be done. For more detailed information visit http://eagledining.georgiasouthern.edu

Bathrooms are cleaned every morning except on weekends.

All residence halls have several bike racks located outside of the residence halls where your student can store his/her bike.

If your student is staying in the residence hall, he/she must get a parking permit for the residence hall lot that he/she resides in. Visit http://parking.georgiasouthern.edu/ for more information.

If your student lives in Centennial Place, Compass Point, Eagle Village, Southern Courtyard, Southern Pines, University Crossings, or Kennedy Super Suites, then the apartment comes with a full size refrigerator. All other residence hall rooms are equipped with a refrigerator/freezer in Watson Hall or Kennedy Traditional Suites or a micro-fridge at Windward Commons. On the Armstrong Campus, residents living on campus may bring an additional mini-fridge for their residential units.

The Application fee is non-refundable if your student cancels his/her on-campus housing.

There are two options: (1) From the beginning of April until July 1, students can make a change request online through the Room Reassignment Request Form. The Housing Office will attempt to grant as many requests as possible during the summer. (2) The student can go through room/hall change after the halls open. The dates for room/hall change are posted in the residence halls, students should review their OMI booklet or they can look for signs posted in the hall.

Unfortunately, given the growing rate of this campus, the considerable demand for on-campus housing and the limited number of beds, we are unable to provide students with single rooms.

The Housing Office is continually filling spaces created by cancellations and moves. If your student does not have a roommate at the moment, he/she will probably have one soon.

If students want to do a swap, the students moving need to contact the housing office to make the request. Say Student 1 and Student 2 are roommates and Student 3 and Student 4 are roommates but Student 1 wants to be roommates with Student 3; Student 1 and Student 3 both need to request the move for it to be considered.

The Residen Advisor is a vital member of the Georgia Southern University Housing Staff. The RA is a live-in member of the University Housing Staff and works with a group of students in the residential communities. The RA works with University Housing Resident Directors in establishing a positive living environment for the resident students. The RA’s immediate supervisor is the Resident Director.

The Resident Director is a full-time professional who lives in the residence hall to which he/she is assigned. The Resident Director supervises the RA staff. Graduate Resident Directors are graduate students at Georgia Southern who directly oversee the RA staff, hear student conduct cases, serve in an on-call rotation and assist with student learning.

Residents in Freedom’s Landing and Southern Pines will need full sized (double) sheets.  Residents of Compass Point, Eagle Village, Kennedy, Southern Courtyard, University Crossings, Watson, and Windward Commons should purchase Extra Long (XL) 80″ twin sheets.  For residents of Centennial Place, rooms in buildings beginning with a 1 or 2 have the extra long (80″) twin sheets, residents of rooms beginning with a 3 or 4 have regular full sized (double) beds.

Beginning November 1, your student may apply for housing once they are accepted to Georgia Southern University and receive a letter by mail or email. They may access the application site with their EagleID and their initial password which will be sent via the email address on file with Admissions.