It's time to begin planning for residence life as a Purple Raider! Many of you have been asking how Mount Union will match you with a roommate, so here is some information about how the process works. You will be asked to complete a personal and interest preference form online via a program called  MyHousing. The program will then use this information to find your best match among the other students who've already completed the form. When you login to MyHousing and look at the applications, there is a New Student Housing form and a New Student Commuter form. All new students must complete one of these applications.

You can also use this system to make a specific roommate request. To do this, you will go to the "Room Selection" across the top and then choose "Roommates/Suitemates" from the drop-down menu. If you know who you want to live with already, you can search for them by name in "Simple Roommate Search." Alternatively, you can use the "Advanced Roommate Search" and look for other people who have completed the form with similar answers. From among those results, you can then request someone to be your roommate. In either case, as long as that person confirms your request by July 15, you will be roommates. In response to students over the past few years requesting to know their housing assignments earlier, we will email housing assignments about 3 times throughout the summer based on who has completed forms by that time.

The Office of Residence Life values all students and the unique perspectives that they bring to campus, and wants every student who lives on campus to feel comfortable and safe. Based on changing needs and preferences of our students as well as a nationwide shift in preferences, we are now offering a gender-inclusive housing option for students. Offering mixed gendered housing reflects values of social justice, such as collaboration, cooperation, equity, and citizenship, which are paramount in the context of higher education. This option of mixed-gendered housing allows our students to practice those values in an educational setting. For a list of FAQs, click here.