Residence Life at UIS

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See so we have a few people here with us today. See my helper Nick Wagner is going to be helping me by answering some questions in the chat as I go through the presentation. My name is William Church. I'm a resident director with the Department of residence life and I'm going to be presenting today about what it's like living on campus within the University of Illinois at Springfield.

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In this video will be an introduction to our Department from our director, Brian Kelly. So if you give me just a second.

Hi, I'm Brian Kelly, the director, residence life at the University of Illinois, Springfield. Each year more than 1000 students choose to live on campus and four distinct community options are residence halls, townhouses, apartments and family housing. We have two residence halls, Lincoln and founders. These communities house freshmen and sophomore students. Students live in four person suites. A suite consists of two double rooms.

With a shared semi private bath, we also offer several on campus apartment and townhouse options. Pennyroyal, Marigold, Trillium, and foxglove courts include modern four bedroom, 2 bathroom townhouse units featuring an open floor plan, spacious living areas, cathedral style ceilings and full modern kitchens, Clover Bluebell, Larks, Burg and sunflower courts are designed with the needs of Upper Division and graduate students in mind. All units include carpeted, living rooms and bedrooms full modern kitchens.

And each has two bathrooms. Family residents are assigned either one or two better apartments and may request furnished or unfurnished apartments, depending on our availability. We hope that you'll choose to live on campus with residence life.

We know that stay on campus living experience is one of the most important and rewarding parts your uas experience.

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Trying a new process here. There we go. So that was a quick introduction about what available spaces we have on campus. I'm going to be going over a little bit more in depth and detail as to what else we have on campus, but let's keep going here. So why should you live on campus? Few reasons research shows that students actually perform better academically achieve a higher GPA, and in they have an increase in overall satisfaction with the academic and school experience.

A lot of those community aspects you don't get if you're living off campus. Actually, we also have fully furnished units. We have utilities, water, and other expenses included, so it's going to be all your electric gas will. Actually, there's no gas, but electric heating, air conditioning, Internet. That's all provided. And then we also have representatives come in and help with fixing particular items. If there's any maintenance or facilities issues. So let's just say.

There's a leaky sink or something like that. We actually have staff that will come in at all hours of the day and help with cleaning those and fixing those items. It's convenient to live on campus. You're close to class. This campus is not massive. You can get pretty much went anywhere you need to go on in about 5 to 10 minutes to even closer if you live within the residence halls to all of your main housing or all your main classes and buildings that you need to go to, it's easier to connect with other students when you're living within a community of.

All students and then it also provides you with an opportunity to become even more involved with the University, whether or not you'd like to have a job on campus, which is extremely convenient and easy to go through and actually get if you'd like to be involved in any of the many organize student run organizations or faculty and staff are in organizations that we have on campus as well, and then finally you will have a choice of your housemates even your first year.

If you're coming in as a first year student, you would have a choice for your housemates, especially if you're coming in as a transfer graduate. You have a choice for preference. If you don't really know anybody, we give you an opportunity to give your sort of living habits, and we pair you up with somebody that be similar. And then you. There's a lot of options for where to live on campus so you can choose the place that is either as close to as far away from your classes as possible, and you just pick a community that fits your needs.

At UIS in Reslife we value safety. We have a 24/7 on call staff which would include myself and our helper Nick today as well. We are full time professional staff members with Masters degrees and we are just a Security Service for that next level security that possibly our residents distance cannot provide our residents distance or student staff members that will help with security rounds with helping to make sure the community.

Engagement is happening. They'll help with any on call needed issues that are happening at night, whereas you know Nick and I might get called during the day at any pretty much anytime to help with issues as well. We have emergency alarms in our buildings that that sound. Obviously fire alarms and tornado sirens on campus as well. We have cameras located within our public facilities to track any issues that might occur.

We have a police office on campus which is a full police office and not not just campus cops or campus security. These are full-time of state issued police officers. They're really nice. They provide excellent care and response when necessary. We have very close fire Department as well. That gets the campus within just minutes. If there's any issues as well and then we have in our residence halls we have.

Security doors that lock during scheduled periods during the day as well at our front desks we have at the residence halls. We have staff members located at those desks from 8:00 AM to midnight who will check every individual who comes into the building. They actually. The students are actually required to swipe their cards in order to show that they live in that area. That's especially important right now with everything going on in Kovid related news, we have different expectations for community guidelines right now that are temporary.

But we do check to make sure that people are actually living within that area before they go up onto a floor.

We provide really great amenities in each room. You will be provided with a twin XL bed, desk, dresser, closet, blinds in the residence halls. I mentioned this before their 16 hour front desk operations. These is going to be where you go for package pickup and Mail. Any other issues that you might need? Their student LED desks or student operated desks and the students there are hired with the understanding that they have a good idea of what the amenities are on campus.

There are laundry rooms in the residence halls on each floor in each wing, well in Lincoln, and then on each floor and in founders. And then in each court. There's also laundry room for each individual court. All utilities are provided, so this is going to be electric. You're washing and drying of clothes. That's also going to be free of charge, whereas a lot of other universities actually require you to pay.

There's there are lounges on each floor with TV's, there's there's pool tables, fireplaces in our buildings, there's not fireplaces in our townhouses or apartments. Just 'cause that could cause some possible issues but they're still good community gathering place at the housing Commons which provides you with an extra kitchen if you need it as well and then we have some large programming spaces. the Great Hall, our great room in Lincoln residence Hall is a.

LG 75 person gathering place for large events obviously can't happen right now unfortunately, but once we're out of this code craziness you would be able to reserve that for any student organization or even if you just needed it for yourself, you'd be able to reserve that through the Department residence life as well as the classrooms. There are good place to get for study services if you're going to be needing some extra time to practice an event with a student group or a class group that you're working on a group project.

They're really great opportunity because they are actually classroom spaces and then the all of our residents life facilities are within close proximity of the student union, which is where a lot of our students actually get the majority of their food and then ample parking. You know, this is one of the few colleges that I've been on that actually has as much parking as you could ever possibly need, so you don't need to worry about finding space or getting into a lot of lottery for a parking space. Like a lot of campuses actually.

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oh, as a part of the residence life staff, we actually have resident assistants who we hire on their students, staff members that live on each floor or within each court of the residential communities. These residents distance are hired with their excellence in their ability to communicate their ability to bill.

The community to put on programs and activities and they are student leaders on campus. They are the people that if you are first year student on campus or even a transfer graduate there, the person that you would want to go to in order to ask questions. See what campus life is like. See if there's anything that they can get that you can get involved in. And honestly, they're just really, really a good resource. They also help with the security rounds that I was talking about. They are on call. It says 24/7 here, but it's actually the full time staff members who are on call 24/7 whereas.

Resident systems have a little bit of a different uncle structure. They're mostly on call during the evenings on the weekdays, and then on the weekends. They actually do have 24/7 on call hours, so there's always somebody that you can call if you need something, let's just say you get locked out of your house or you are having a roommate concern or there's somebody noisy next door that you'd like to have a little bit quieter because it's 3:00 AM and you're trying to study or trying to sleep that hopefully that doesn't happen all that frequently, but we do have that resource here for you.

Free of charge. Honestly, it's a part of the deal when you live on campus, and especially those social events are a great place for you to go out to get to know people, get to, you know, take that study, break. We're still doing those now, even during covid with physically distanced methods. And our eyes are really being resilient during this time and I want to give a shout out to them.

So the cost to live on campus and I'm going to have to switch over to another picture here in just a minute. The cost of living on campus. These rates that you see on the left side of the screen are going to include your monthly utilities, trash services, Internet, laundry, furniture, everything that you have. And then it's going to be a nine month lease rather than a 12 month lease is just what you're going to get a lot of off campus housing units. The shared residence life room. So this is going to be within our residence halls.

This is going to be a 2 bedroom unit, 4 person suite and one bathroom shared between four people. This is going to be at a cost of $3730. These are the most secure buildings and they are hosting our first years and 2nd year students. So you're actually required to live within a residence Hall. Your first two years there is a potential for if we have a large first year class coming in there is the potential. If you're a second year student who moved into the townhouses.

But that's actually on the server on a lottery basis or by need private residence Hall room. This is going to be a room for just yourself with nobody else living in it with you. That's going to be at $5100 per semester and then apartment townhouse rates are going to be 3500. This is going to be our most common spaces are going to be 4 bedroom units with each with a private bedroom for yourself and then you would be sharing a bathroom with one other person we do have.

A few five person units. No six person units. We have family housing which is at a different rate and then we also have shared housing out in our family housing as well. That would be two people per private bedroom as well. All of those rates are a little bit different, but for the purposes of this presentation we don't have them included just because the majority of the people in these presentations actually are either first year students were transferred grads. So if you need those rates, you can visit our website there at the top which is uis.edu/residencelife/living.

At UIS slash rates and then, if you just honestly Google UIS residence life rates that will bring up the.

A chart with all of the additional charges.

So let's go ahead and take a virtual tour here. I'm going to go to the chat real quick and see can I get a shout out? If you guys participants if you're mostly first year students. If you're mostly transferred Brads, If you are going to be living in the apartments or in the residence halls. I just want a quick idea where to go to 1st. I got a first year, well, that's awesome. First year. So yeah, I guess I'm going to start most likely with the first year.

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And then we are on the apologize for my email. We are on our website here. If you go on our website and you go down to housing options and amenities here, housing options that will bring up all of our options. These are all quick links down to further in this page and then if you want a good idea of what the residence halls look like, you can go through and have a virtual tour. So let's go ahead and do that with Lincoln residence Hall first.

So this is the first floor lobby of Lincoln Residence Hall. Let's go ahead and have it load in.

You will walk in these main doors here which.

Will show you. These are the main doors that you'll normally walk in, which is the front of the building. Pretty much anytime of the day you will only be able to access these stores here in one other door, which I'll get to in just a second. This is our front desk right here, so this is what you're going to see when you walk in and you'll have to swipe your card right there. See if you see that little Gray box on the corner of the desk there. This is where you'll get your Mail, your packages, you mailboxes right here you will be issued a mailbox.

On your own, Lincoln is home to some of our living learning communities, and for those of you who might be a part of the Capitol Honors Program, their main office is right here, with several professors going down this first floor hallway over over there, let's go ahead and take a look at the Great Hall.

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Sometimes, so this used to be a grab and go location right here it is no longer that and this actually can be at times reserved for students and staff to hold events out of. They do dial a dog every year. I don't know if that's going to happen this year though, but every year they've done dialogue since I've been here where you can actually order a hotdog and get it in the grabbing go section there. Most food though is going to be out of our central Union as well.

This is the Great Hall. What I was saying is a little large scale event Hall that we have and you can reserve this for any function that you might need and that gives you a pretty good concept of what the lobby is like at Lincoln. Let's go ahead and see what the rooms look like.

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The rooms here are actually quite large. I know for a lot of students that I've worked with.

It's a difference than what they're used to at home. I will give you that.

I will say, however, that these are some of the largest rooms that I've ever seen for first year students at the college or University. I went to Purdue University in my my first year. College room was actually probably about half this size and it was still two people that were sharing it. It was very long and very tall, but I could stretch my arms out either side of my body and touch both walls at one point in the room. So this is depending on which room you get. There are a couple styles. This is a more sort of boxy.

Square shaped room. As you can see, all of the different. Sorry this is kind of hard to control. Different furniture that you're offered you and your roommate will get each a side of the closet to use an addresser, let's go out here to the bathroom.

These are a few years old as well, so some of our bathroom spaces have been cleaned and renovated so there's the camera like that.

You get to share this with four people. Yes, you do have to clean your own bathroom, so that's a unfortunate thing for some, but for those of you who have always been cleaning your own bathroom, it might just be normal for you as well. Parents might be horrified with me saying that right now, and this is the second room that is in a sweet. It's a little bit thinner, but a little bit longer than the other room, but there's many ways that you can set up the beds. You can ask actually also request a loft, which would be raising this bed.

Up on top of some other feet apparatus is that would allow you to put your desk under possibly put the futon if you can see that this bad over here on the left is actually up higher than the one on the right, you can adjust the beds height. You can make that loft as large as you would like, and if you and your roommate really chose to do this, you could actually go with a bunk bed setup as well, which would help with a lot of the space as well in this room. So that's Lincoln. Let's take a look at founders founders, is a little bit different. There's a chance that you might end up.

In founders is for sure student, though smaller of a chance. Just because generally our class sizes allow for linking the House everybody. This is the front area of founders. Once again you have the front desk over here with all the mailboxes. There's an elevator. Yes in both buildings. Here's an elevator that you are allowed to use.

That's a nice plus, because that actually wasn't always the case. My first year here, they actually did not allowed students who did not have a need to use the elevator down this way. Or actually two classroom spaces. So there's actually a potential that you could have classes in the same building that you are, how?