Important Dates and Information
Important Dates for Fall 2009 and Spring 2010 Students (Returning and New) All residence hall facilities will open on Thursday, August 20st. Check-in times are from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. August 20 through August 22 and 1:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. on August 23th. The following groups have different dates as to when they may arrive and different check-in times:
Football Mgr and Film Crew: Aug. 3 (3 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
Athletic Trainers: Aug. 4 (3 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
Football team:
Returning and Transfers Aug. 7 (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.)
Freshmen Aug. 8 (8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.)
Student Teachers: Aug. 9 (1 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
Men's Soccer Team: Aug. 10 (10 a.m. to 10 p.m.)
Women's Soccer Team: Aug. 10 (10 a.m. to 10 p.m.)
Women's Volleyball Team: Aug. 14 (10 a.m. to 10 p.m.)
Cheerleaders: Aug. 15 (10 a.m. to 10 p.m.)
RA's arrive: Aug. 16 (1 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
Impact Steering Commitete: Aug. 16 (1 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
Impact Co-Directors: Aug. 16 (1 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
Dormnet Assistants: Aug. 16 (1 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
New Walton Students: Aug. 17 (1 p.m. to 10.p.m.)
Student Publications: Aug. 17 (1 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
Band Percussion: Aug. 17 (1 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
Bookstore Workers: Aug. 16 (1 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
Impact Energy Group Leaders: Aug. 18 (1 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
Band Officers: Aug. 18 (1 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
Advance Testing: Aug. 19 (1 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
Rest of the Band: Aug. 19 (1 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
Good News Singers: Aug. 19 (1 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
Belles and Beaux: Aug. 19 (1 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
Choral Impact Counselors: Aug. 19 (1 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
Impact Crew: Aug. 19 (1 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
ITS-Computer Lab Training: Aug. 19 (1 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
Dorms open to all students: Aug 20 (8 a.m. to 10 p.m.)
Classes will begin on Monday, August 24th.
Christmas Break: Residence hall occupants are to check out within 24 hours after their last final. Those graduating (and any others given permission to remain late for special circumstances) must be out by 5 p.m. on Saturday, December 19th.
The residence halls will reopen at 8 a.m. on Friday, January 8th.
Classes will begin for the 2010 spring semester on Monday, January 11th.
Spring break. The residence halls will close by 10 p.m. Friday evening, March 5th. If someone has extenuating circumstances, such as a long drive or a flight leaving on Saturday, he/she may ask permission from his/her RLC to remain until early Saturday morning. The halls will reopen at noon on Saturday, March 13th.
Spring Graduation is May 8th. Residence hall occupants are to check out within 24 hours after their last final. Those graduating (and any others given permission to remain late for special circumstances) must be out by 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 8th.
New Students
TO: NEW FALL 2009 HARDING STUDENTS
FROM: PATTY BARRETT, DIRECTOR OF RESIDENCE LIFE
We are glad that you have finished your admissions process and have been admitted to Harding University. Of course, I’m sure you have questions as to when housing assignments will be made and when you will receive information concerning your assignment. I will try to answer some of your questions concerning housing with this letter.
Assignments will not be completed until near the end of July. By waiting until then, we can honor the most requests. Your being happy helps all of us in the long run.
Below is an explanation of the manner in which assignments are made:
- Transfers and former students are placed in order by classification and date admitted to the University for transfers and date of deposit for former students. Assignments are made according to this order.
- First-time-in-college (FTIC) students are put in order by admittance date and assigned according to this order.
- If two students want to be roommates, they are put in order by the later admittance date.
- After individuals are put in order as indicated above, we start assigning with the earliest admittance date, trying to give the desired roommate and residence hall assignment. If we can’t give both, we check to see which the student said was more important—roommate or residence hall—and make the assignment from that information.
- If we have the number of students we anticipate for the fall, there is a strong possibility that we will have an overflow of men and women before school starts. If that happens, the last individuals to be admitted will be assigned temporary housing. This will be on campus and should only last a short time.
Updates for roommate, suitemates, and residence hall choices will be taken until July 1st.
We hope to be able to honor requests for roommates and suitemates that are made by July 1st if all individuals involved were accepted by May 31st, although the residence hall will depend on when individuals are admitted and how fast each building fills up. We will also do our best to honor requests to be roommates made by individuals admitted after May 31st. We know having the roommate you want is a very important thing, so working that out is a priority to us, as long as we are fair to those admitted to the University earlier. In order to assign individuals as roommates, we must hear from both of them that they want to be together. We also try to honor suitemate choices, although it is more difficult to coordinate acceptance dates and dorm choices when four are involved. Again, we have to hear from all individuals. (In residence halls without suites, those who ask to be suitemates will be placed in rooms by each other.)
Cathcart, Kendall, Pattie Cobb, Sears, Stephens, and Searcy Hall are women’s housing. In most cases, these residence halls have two rooms sharing a bathroom. Searcy Hall is an efficiency apartment-style residence hall. There might be a couple of vacancies for transfers in this facility. Shores and Pryor Halls, our two newest women’s facilities, are considered privileged housing and are not normally available to new students. Individuals wishing to live in these facilities must be juniors, seniors, or third year students who almost have junior status, have lived in our regular residence halls for at least a semester, and be approved through an application process. Transfers who have completed at least 40 hours may fill out an application the middle of their first semester at Harding. Sometimes there are a couple of places available in the fall for transfers in these two dorms. If I do have some, in July I will contact senior and possibly some junior transfers concerning these.
Allen, Armstrong, Graduate, Harbin, and Keller are men’s housing. Armstrong, Graduate, and Keller rooms are set up as suites, which are two rooms sharing a bathroom. Harbin and Allen have community baths. Harbin has recently been renovated, both the bathrooms and the rooms, and it looks great! Our newest men’s facility, Cone Hall, is not normally available for new students. Individuals wishing to live in Cone must be at least sophomores, have lived in our regular residence halls for at least a semester, and be approved through an application process. Transfers who have completed at least 27 hours may fill out an application the middle of their first semester at Harding. Most occupants are juniors and seniors. (If we have some spaces available for the fall after taking care of those on our approved list, we will consider transfers.)
All rooms have some type of blinds on the windows and are air-conditioned. Kendall, Pattie Cobb, Armstrong, and most rooms in Graduate and Keller have carpeting in the rooms. All beds are standard twins, except in Cone, Graduate, Armstrong, Harbin, and Keller, where they are extra-long twins. Our website (www.harding.edu/reslife) has more information concerning individual dorms.
Most freshmen women will be assigned in Cathcart and Sears, which are all-freshmen residence halls. There will also be quite a few freshmen women in Stephens. Most freshmen men will be assigned in Armstrong and Harbin, which are all-freshmen residence halls. There will be a small group in Keller. If a freshman wishes to room with a current Harding student or a transfer, women pairs may live together in Stephens and, if there is room, men pairs in Keller and Graduate. These are the only residence halls with both freshmen and upperclassmen.
The first semester of college is a critical one and often sets the tone for a student’s future. Our freshmen residence halls are equipped with personnel who will help in this transition from high school to college.
If a student has a documented medical disability, which he/she believes requires special residence hall accommodations, he/she must contact Dean Stu Varner at 501-279-4442 or svarner@harding.edu immediately. Once he is made aware of such a situation, he will let the student know what documentation is required for the request to be considered. Please be sure to provide him your phone number and e-mail address.We are looking forward to having you as a student this year. If my office may be of assistance to you, please call toll-free at 1-800-879-4256 or e-mail Mrs. Barrett at barrett@harding.edu for women and Mrs. Allen at kallen@harding.edu for men.