The Office of Residential Life tries to provide housing to any and all students who wish to live on campus. Most times an open and honest conversation about what is bothering each individual is sufficient to overcome roommate problems. Sometimes a simple but detailed roommate agreement, an agreement which all residents choose to live by, can settle disputes residents have with each other. The Office of Residential Life prides itself on our flexible room change policy; however, there is a procedure that must be followed to ensure accuracy of records and the security of the living spaces involved.

Room Change Procedures

All students interested in room changes have to meet with their Resident Director, who can be found by clicking here.

Approved Room Changes

Once a room change has been approved, the change should be completed within one week unless an extension period is approved by the Area Coordinator or Resident Director. Residents are asked to make arrangements with their new roommate or apartment mates to gain access to their new rooms (except in the case of complex singles). Once all of a resident's belongings have been moved into the new space, the resident must return the old room key and pick up a new room key at the Office of Residential Life. Students may keep both sets of keys until move is completed then return old room keys.

If it is difficult to gain access into the new building or room, Residential Life staff can sign out a room key to the resident who is moving into the new space before the old room key is returned. This procedure must be approved by the Area Coordinator, and the student must be willing to sign a billing notice charging him or her the fee for a lock change should the key to the old room not be returned in a timely fashion. This form is destroyed once the key to the former room is returned.

Residential Life staff will activate or de-activate access as appropriate.

Important--Please Note!

The University of Hartford has a special keying system which prevents the duplication of its keys. For this reason, lock changes are extremely expensive, and result in a normal lock change fee of $150 (for Regents Park and the Village Apartments) and $120 (for the Complexes, Park River Apartments and Asylum Avenue Campus) for each lock which must be changed!