If you have a question about the residence halls, someone else has probably already asked it! Read through the answers to our Frequently Asked Questions, and if you don’t find an answer, please ask us directly.
All of our bed frames are extra-long. However, most of our mattresses are normal twin size so that regular twin-sized sheets will fit. We do have a small supply of extra-long mattresses for our extra-long students. If your son or daughter would like an extra-long mattress, please let us know so we can make appropriate arrangements.
Once you arrive at the residence hall, look for the resident advisor (RA), who will be sporting a navy blue polo shirt. Your RA will show you to your room, explain the check-in form, and introduce you to other students who may have already arrived.
You will need to check the room against the check-in form, noting any differences, complete the form, and return it to your RA, who will give you your room key. Then you then may begin to move in. There will be volunteer movers available who can help! Your RA will be happy to answer any questions you might have.
The first number of your room number indicates the floor the room is on. So if your room is Westview 130, you are on the 1st floor. If you live in Cianchette 217, you are on the 2nd floor. And if you live in Wood Hall 309, you are on the 3rd floor.
We prefer that students hang posters and pictures in their room with adhesive putty. Scotch tape often takes the paint with it when removed, and I would definitely not recommend using duct tape! Tacks, nails, and screws will damage the wall, requiring patching and painting (a $50 charge per wall). The rooms in Wood Hall do have wooden poster strips on the left and right walls designed to take tacks. Command strips also work well but you have to be careful when removing them, otherwise you will take the paint off as well. The best thing to use to hang posters is painter's tape. It sticks really well to the walls of the residence halls and is designed not to take paint with it when it is removed.
As an incoming student, your housing deposit is handled through Admissions. After you have paid your admission deposit you will receive a packet from Admissions with the housing application in it.
Returning students should follow the Housing Application and Selection Process for Returning Students. (Returning students entering in the spring semester should contact the director of residence life.)
We begin making housing assignments for incoming students during the second week of May. Remember that we can’t place you until you complete your housing application/questionnaire, because we use the information on the questionnaire to match roommates. Once we place you, we will send out a notice with information on your housing assignment and roommate(s), or you can also find this information on your student portal under Housing, when you get access to your Unity College student portal.
Each room has both wired and wireless network and Internet services available.
The lofting system is designed for the wooden adjustable bunk beds that the college provides in the residence rooms. It is 37"W x 84"L x 66"H with 2 ¼" x 2 ¼" posts. All posts and stretchers are made of select environmentally timbered wood. It has triple doweled construction, and the maximum high bunk bed position is 62" from the floor. Assembly is tool-less. The College has about 90 of these lofting systems and we use them for rooms that we are converting into triples. We offer any remaining lofts to the residents of Eastview, Westview, and Wood Hall on a first-come, first-served basis. Maintenance staff will install the lofting systems in the rooms before students arrive in the fall.
We can provide housing for married couples, though the request is quite rare (one in 16 years). We require a copy of the marriage certificate. We would likely offer a married couple a double room in Cianchette Hall, which has a private bathroom.
Students on the last summer NOVA trip (August 19 through 23) move into their fall-semester rooms when they arrive on Saturday, August 18. Check-in is from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Allison M. Hall Welcome Center (lower end of campus loop road, look for signs). Residence Life staff will be there to greet you and direct you to your residence hall. If you need to arrive outside the 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. time period, please check in with Campus Safety.
Currently our campus pet policy only allows fish.
We allow standard dorm/cube-sized refrigerators, as well as the double cube. We do not allow full-sized refrigerators.
Our resident advisors (RAs) are upper-class students who have undergone resident-advisor training. Each resident advisor lives on campus in the residential community for which they are responsible. The resident advisor works under the supervision and direction of the director of residence life. Each resident advisor is accountable for helping to create a community environment that is conducive to the personal growth and development of all residents.
If you have already turned in your housing application and forgotten to include your roommate request, please contact us, and we will be happy to honor your roommate preference.
It is definitely possible that you and your friend can be roommates. The best way to indicate a roommate preference is to put them down as a roommate choice on your housing application form. Since you have already turned in your housing application, I will put you down as requesting each other as roommates on your housing applications and I will place you two together in housing.
Room dimensions are approximately as follows:
Cianchette: 15'x15'
Cottages: 9' x 11'
Eastview: 12' x 14'
Maplewood: single 10' x 16', double 12' x 16'
TerraHaus: single 7’ x 12’, double 9’ x 12’
Westview: 12' x 14'
Wood Hall: 12' x 15'
In general, small electric cooking appliances are permitted if they have automatic shutoff features and don’t have exposed/separate heating elements.
It depends on which residence hall you’re in. In Cianchette Hall, Maplewood Hall, Eastview, and the Cottages, there are kitchenettes and residents can wash their dishes in the kitchen sink. Westview and Wood Hall do not have kitchenettes, so residents must wash any dirty dishes in the bathroom sinks.
Yes.
Yes, a spring rod could fit inside the window.
They are; however you might have some problems doing so in Wood Hall, because the walls are concrete. (It’s true: our only non-wooden residence hall is called Wood Hall! It is named after Unity College's first president.)
