Cumberlands Q & A

Absolutely. The main entrances to all residence halls remain locked 24/7. The only way to gain entry into a residence hall is to present your UC student ID to the ID scanners beside the front door to each hall. For residence halls with suites, residence or issued keys to lock both their suite and room doors. Just in case a resident does not have their key to access either their room or their building.
Campus security and residence life have their numbers shared with residents, so there's always someone to contact.

The difference between community and suite style halls is mainly where the bathrooms are located and which students share them. In a suite style hall Residents share a bathroom with up to nine other residents living within their suite. A suite contains 3 to 4 rooms with 2 to 3 students in each room. A community style hall can be thought of as more of a traditional college experience, with multiple students living on a single floor with multiple bathrooms placed throughout the hall.
All of our residence halls have complimentary amenities such as laundry rooms and community microwaves.

For fun. Residents have access to a wide variety of activities and facilities on campus, including a free fitness center, a game room, tennis court, volleyball and basketball courts. Throughout the week, students can engage in a variety of events hosted by Campus Activities Board, athletics, residents life and other departments and groups on campus surf, she said.

Yes, Every residence hall has a laundry facility that students can access free of charge any time of the day.

Yes, Each hall has their own designated parking lot. Residential students will receive a free residential parking pass at the beginning of each academic year. Students who live in Temple Adams Hall will receive a commuter pass and can park in their designated parking area or a commuter lot on campus.

So we have a variety of housing options for our undergraduate students, such as suites style housing, community style, housing and on campus apartments. Students also have the option to live off campus and commute if they meet certain criteria. For more information about living on campus and our available housing is available on the Residence Life page of the UC Website.

So summer orientation provides a great opportunity to meet people and discuss housing plans for the fall. If you don't have anybody in particular in mind that you want to room with our housing portal offers a great matching selection that allows you to search for a roommate based on personality factors, based on sleep time, wait time, campus involvement, in sports recruitment and much more.
From there, you can match them on the housing portal and participate in housing selection. Once it opens.

How involved are commuter students? Commuter students can be just as involved as any on campus student. They can go to all the events, they can go to any of the dining services and sometimes CAB will even throw in commuter only events.