In order to provide students a supportive place to live and study, chancellors are authorized to designate facilities to be used for student housing, within the limitations of available facilities, resources, and personnel. This policy and the accompanying regulation refer only to facilities designated as student housing. Residence life programs provided with student housing will be designed to promote academic success and an awareness of educational, cultural, and social issues, and to contribute to student personal growth.

Each chancellor will establish MAU rules and procedures consistent with Regents' Policy and University Regulation regarding the operation and occupation of student housing and associated residence life programs, taking into consideration the housing needs of short-term as well as semester-based instructional programs. All residents and their guests must comply with MAU rules and procedures pertaining to housing and residence life. Non-compliance may subject a resident to disciplinary action, including dismissal from student housing. The University of Alaska will not permit or tolerate behavior toward residents of student housing that creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive living and learning environment.
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Each chancellor will establish MAU eligibility criteria for occupancy of student housing, grounds for removal from student housing, and limitations on the length of stay in student housing. Criteria may vary among campuses and will include, but not be limited to, academic status and performance and status of financial obligations to the university.

The opportunity to be considered for student housing will be provided in a manner consistent with Regents' Policy, University Regulation, MAU rules and procedures, and applicable law. The university may deny housing to a student on the basis of past or present behavior if, in the judgment of the senior student services officer or designee, such behavior might threaten university property or the health and safety of the residents.

The university has the exclusive right to make housing assignments. In making student housing assignments, consideration will be given by the university to such things as promotion of educational goals, student safety, student privacy interests, and the provision of housing for students' dependents.

Residents for particular housing facilities or locations within facilities may be selected with a preference for a certain interest or focus such as, but not limited to, gender, class standing, academic performance, student organization membership, and academic, cultural, or other special interest.

Each chancellor may establish MAU rules and procedures for eligibility and occupancy of student housing by non-students (e.g., faculty, staff, conference attendees, or dependents). Non-student residents must be affiliated with the university unless otherwise approved by the senior student services officer or designee.
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Each student of record for student housing will be required to sign a housing agreement, the purpose of which is to establish the terms and conditions for occupancy of housing assigned by the university and to document the acceptance of such terms and conditions. Residents will be required to agree to allow the university the right to enter, with reasonable prior notice, a residential unit for facility maintenance, health and safety inspections, enforcement of Regents' Policy, University Regulations, and MAU rules and procedures, and in emergency situations. Each chancellor will designate an official responsible for preparing, in coordination with the university's general counsel office, MAU student housing agreements.
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The senior student services officer or chancellor's designee will be responsible for making available to residents of student housing information regarding rights and responsibilities pertaining to housing and residence life.
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In accordance with Regents' Policy, University Regulation, and MAU rules and procedures, individuals being considered for any student housing and residence life employment will be required to disclose pending criminal charges and past criminal convictions and to consent to a criminal background check.

Persons with pending criminal charges or a history of criminal convictions relevant to the position will not be offered staff positions in any university student housing or resident life employment unless written authorization is provided by the senior student services officer or designee, following procedures specified in University Regulation and MAU rules and procedures.
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