Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3359 - University of Akron › Chapter 3359-60 - Academics In General › Section 3359-60-04.5 - Freshman residential requirement

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Purpose.
The university of Akron seeks to provide a learning environment
				supportive of its academic mission and complimentary to its academic programs.
				The university acknowledges national studies that find first-year freshman
				students uniquely benefit from a residence hall experience. Social integration,
				access to faculty, staff, and institutional resources are better achieved
				through an on-campus experience, which positively influences academic
				persistence and success. Further, the university considered and accepted
				findings that living on campus facilitates integration into the campus social
				network of peers and extracurricular activities, all of which positively
				affects degree completion.
(B) Freshman residential requirement.
Subject to available space and except as otherwise exempted
				below, freshman students at the university of Akron are required to reside in
				university residence halls for the duration of their freshman academic year at
				the university.
(C)
								Rule compliance
								.
Except as provided in this rule,
				upon being admitted and paying the intent to enroll
				fee, freshman students are required to submit a
				housing application and contract in order to
									 be assigned to residence in university
				housing. Except for those entitled to an exemption as provided in this rule,
				any freshman student who fails to reside in university housing, may be subject
				to immediate administrative withdrawal by the university
				or assessment of residence hall fees for the
				semester(s) that the student failed to reside in university housing as required
				by this rule. The director of residence life and housing, upon finding
				that any such freshman student, during the freshman year, failed to reside in
				university housing, shall notify the university registrar of such fact. The
				university registrar, upon receipt of such notice and upon approval of the
				chief student affairs officer, shall execute rule
				compliance as outlined herein
									.
(D)
			 Exemption from freshman residential requirement.
Freshman students are subject to exemption from the freshman
				residential requirement, based upon the following general categories: automatic
				exemption without filing an exemption petition, automatic exemption requiring
				filing an exemption petition, and eligibility for exemption requiring filing an
				exemption petition. The latter category is not automatic and the university
				will carefully consider the exemption petition on a case by case basis.
(1) Conditions which automatically exempt a
			 student from freshman residential requirement without filing an exemption
			 petition.
The university will determine, from the information supplied by
				the student in the normal course of applying and registering for courses, if a
				student qualifies for an exemption from the freshman residential requirement.
				Filing an exemption petition will not be required if:
(a) Permanent home residence of parents or
			 legal guardians who reside in: medina, portage, stark, summit, wayne counties;
(b) Registered for fewer than six
			 credit hours (as verified on fourteenth day of instruction);
(c) Twenty-one plus years of age
			 on the first day of the term for which the student has
			 been admitted
										.