Residence Hall Guidelines 

William Penn University places great care and emphasis on your living environment. In conjunction with your academic coursework and your extracurricular activities, your residential living experience will contribute to your personal growth and educational development.

Primary objectives for the William Penn University residential program include:

COMMUNITY

On campus living helps foster a spirit that bears witness to the Quaker ideal of community. The Penn community is composed of unique persons, whose individual talents contribute to and sustain the growth and vitality of campus life. In these significant learning situations you realize that the welfare of the community is contingent upon the contribution of its members.

COOPERATION

In an atmosphere of genuine concern and mutual respect, personal resources are tapped, and individual talents are recognized and appreciated. The interpersonal relationships that highlight residential life are the foundation upon which a productive college career rests. You learn how to function most effectively without jeopardizing individuality.

RESPONSIBILITY

The policies and regulations that govern residential life are intended to enhance academic and social development. These policies are built around respect and community responsibility and are balanced with allowing individual freedom to grow and experience new situations.

You Should Know...

• The residence halls are not open during the semester (mid-December to beginning of spring semester) break.
• Campus dining does not serve meals when the university is closed.
• The university reserves the right to have fully authorized personnel enter a residence hall room under reasonable and restrained conditions for purposes such as to provide maintenance; to ensure the personal health, safety and security of hall residents; or to enforce the rules when there is reasonable cause to believe that rules are being violated.

NOISE POLICY

The residence halls are designed to provide you with an environment that is conducive to studying, socializing, and sleeping. To insure that studying and sleeping can occur, quiet hours have been established.
         Sunday - Thursday: 10:00 p.m. - 10:00 a.m.
         Friday - Saturday: Midnight - 10:00 a.m.
         Final Exam Period 24 hours a day
In addition to specific quiet hours, courtesy hours are in effect 24 hours a day. Stereos, radios, TVs, and all conversations must be kept to levels that will not interfere with other residents' study or sleep. If you encounter a noise problem, you have the right and responsibility to let offenders know that their activity is annoying. If a disturbance persists, contact a resident advisor (RA).

VISITATION POLICIES

Visitation Hours

You may have members of the opposite sex as guests in your living areas (rooms, units, balconies and corridors) only during the designated visitation hours. During non-visitation hours visitation privileges are limited to the main residence hall lobbies and TV lounges.

Sunday - Thursday: Noon - Midnight
Friday - Saturday: Noon - 2:00 a.m.

Visitors and Overnight Guests

• A guest is a nonpaying visitor staying on campus at the invitation of a resident. A guest may stay in the residence halls up to five nights in one month. Guests should not be considered permanent residents. At any time the hall director or director of residence life may terminate this privilege.
• With the exception of members of a student's immediate family, registered recruitment guests, and members of the university community, no visitors under 18 years of age are permitted in the residence halls at any time. You must work out your own arrangement, with your roommate's approval, for having visitors. If no agreement can be reached, a staff member may be called upon to help resolve the problem.
• You are responsible for the behavior and actions of your guests/visitors at all times. Policy violations by you and/or your guests will result in disciplinary action.
• Individuals who have been removed from or have restricted entry to residence halls are not granted overnight privileges. If you host these individuals, you are in violation of university policy and will be subject to disciplinary action.

YOU are responsible for your living area, as well as for your personal conduct. You are responsible for all behavior that takes place in your room. If you give permission for a violation to occur in your room, or are present while others commit a violation, you can be held accountable as a participant in the violation. If you do not wish to violate a university policy you should temporarily separate yourself from others (roommates, unitmates, or guests) who may be in violation of university policies.