Welcome Golden Wolves! We are so excited to have you on campus on Friday, August 22, 2025, to move into your residence hall and start your New Student Orientation weekend. Essential details for Move-In 2025 and New Student Orientation Weekend 2025 will be coming soon. Check back for more details.
New students must accomplish these tasks before arriving on Jan. 19.
Review your assignment in the ARC Portal.
You can double check this in the ARC portal and can make any changes to eligible meal plans in the portal through the last day of Drop/Add. Here are the available meal plans. Choice is based on what you are eligible for according to your housing assignment.
| 2024-25 | 19 Meals/week plus 100 bonus dollars | 14 Meals/week plus 250 bonus dollars | 190 Meals plus 125 bonus dollars | 150 Meals plus 200 bonus dollars | 110 Meals plus 200 bonus dollars | 75 Meals plus 50 bonus dollars | 75 Meals plus 200 bonus dollars | 75 Meals plus 500 Vern Bucks |
| Cost per year | $8,220 | $7,960 | $7,670 | $6,900 | $6,340 | $4,150 | $4,400 | $5,500 |
| Cost per semester | $4,110 | $3,980 | $3,835 | $3,450 | $3,170 | $2,075 | $2,200 | $2,750 |
| Veronica Hall | ✔ | ✔ | ||||||
| Clare Hall | ✔ | ✔ | ||||||
| Francis Hall | ✔ | ✔ | ||||||
| Anthony Hall | ✔ | ✔ | ||||||
| Holleran Hall | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| Judge Hall | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| Assisi Hall | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| Siena Hall | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| Zygmunta Hall | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Ehlerman Hall | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Pacelli Hall | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
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Below are a few strategies that will help promote a healthy living environment for your Residence Hall.
If you have a bathroom in your residence hall room, consider it a privilege because most students share one with everyone in their hallway! Your bathroom will be an even smaller space than the residence hall room, so clutter can take over quickly. Remove anything that does not belong and store what does belong on shelves, shower caddies, or in a cabinet. Pick up any dirty towels and clothes, then clean and disinfect your bathroom from top to bottom.
The secret to keeping your residence hall room clean is to wash your bedding every week and wash your clothes before they overflow the hamper to keep the clutter and odors to a minimum.
• Make your bed
• Pick up clutter from the floor
• Wash dishes and put them away
• Disinfect frequently touched surfaces
• Take your trash to the dumpster
• After showering, hang your towel and shower mat to avoid moisture build up
• Vacuum, sweep and mop
• Do the laundry, including bedding and shower mat
• Clean your microwave and countertop appliances to remove dust and grease build up
• Dust furniture and surfaces
• Take out the trash
• Clean windows and mirrors
• Clean your fridge and throw out old food
• Declutter and organize desk and files
If you have any additional questions that are not covered below, please visit the Residence Life and Housing FAQs page.
Here is everything first-year students should expect when arriving:
If you are a member of an organization/team that has early arrival, please reach out to your coach or organization faculty/staff member for early arrival details. Please note our office does not accommodate requests for early move-in for non-Alvernia sanctioned situations.
This list of recommended items will help you pack and prepare to move in to your home away from home at Alvernia University! It’s a good idea to connect with your roommate about items you may share, e.g., refrigerator, area rug.
This list of prohibited items will help you pack and prepare to move in to your home away from home:
Please review the student handbook for more items that we don't allow if you're unsure.
This self-guided tour includes nearly two dozen stops across our locations, featuring 360-degree panorama views, videos and more.
If you have any additional questions that are not covered below, please visit the Residence Life and Housing FAQs page.
Lofting is not permitted. You are only permitted to raise your bed to the highest level it will adjust to without lofting materials. You are also permitted to use bed risers for extra storage space. The university only provides materials for bunking beds. Facilities has supplies to raise the beds, but not to the level of having a seating area underneath. Hip high is the highest. Bed can only be raised according to notches in frame. Top of mattress to floor should be no higher than 48 inches.
You may contact the Office of Residence Life at reslife@alvernia.edu if you wish to bunk your beds.
The rooms in our residence halls vary in dimensions, even when they are the same room type (single, double, triple, etc.). For rugs, we recommend that you do not bring one that is larger than five-by-seven feet. The following are measurement samples for specific rooms. This is provided to give you a gauge of what to expect in your space, but not a guarantee of accuracy.
These measurements are from wall to wall, so it includes the bed and any other obstacles in the way. We suggest giving at least 2-3 feet of slack each way for a floor carpet or rug.
Yes! In the first-year area, all windows in Clare Hall and Veronica Hall have built-in blinds within each of the windows; these are controlled via a knob. Windows in Anthony Hall are controlled with an Allen wrench. In Francis Hall, there are external window blinds.
All mattresses in all buildings are Twin XL.
Yes! All residence hall rooms are air-conditioned.
Only one microwave oven is permitted per room in the residence halls. Power requirements may not exceed 120 volts/10 amps.
All other buildings have a microwave and a fridge. Please review the student handbook for more details.
Only one refrigerator is permitted per bedroom in all residence halls. Size may not exceed 3.6 cubic feet and power requirements may not exceed 120 volts/10 amps.
All other buildings have a microwave and a fridge. Please review the student handbook for more details.
Francis Hall is the only residence hall with carpeting in the first-year area. Clare Hall, Anthony Hall and Veronica Hall all have tile flooring.
The rooms in our residence halls vary in dimensions, even when they are the same room type (single, double, triple, etc.). For rugs, we recommend that you do not bring one that is larger than five-by-seven feet. The following are measurement samples for specific rooms. This is provided to give you a gauge of what to expect in your space, but not a guarantee of accuracy.
These measurements are from wall to wall, so it includes the bed and any other obstacles in the way. We suggest giving at least 2-3 feet of slack each way for a floor carpet or rug.
Students who were accepted into the pilot program of AthLead have been assigned to Clare Hall 250-280. We are pleased to assign 44 first-year student athletes to this inaugural program. We had such overwhelming interest in AthLead this year that not everyone interested was placed. However, we will continue to monitor a wait list if we wind up with cancellations.
AthLead Reminders:
In our @AlverniaResLife Instagram page highlights section, most of our residence halls have a highlight reel that shows pictures of the insides of rooms. Please check that out!
While we allow students to indicate specific housing and roommate preferences in their housing application, we are not always able to accommodate these preferences. If you find that you did not receive one or more of your housing preferences, we ask that you exhibit grace and patience and look forward to a new experience.
In some cases, students requested three or four members in a roommate group. On occasion, our housing software may have accommodated you in smaller groups of requested roommates, but, when at all possible, the system will place groups larger than two near each other.
We recognize that not all students will be happy with their housing assignments, for one reason or another. To that end, we have created a process for managing room change requests. Please review that process on our Housing Policies Page. We will not manage complaints or change requests via email – all requests should be submitted through this form.
Submitting this form does not guarantee that your request will be honored, but we will do our best to accommodate what we can. We will contact you ONLY IF we can make a change to your assignment.
Some of the rooms in Clare, Anthony, Veronica and Francis have the capacity to be “tripled” or “5-packed.” We utilize tripling, like many colleges, based on incoming class size. If we have many students that are interested in living on campus, we do our best to provide that opportunity to these students. You may receive a 5th roommate after the housing assignments have been sent out. We will continue to “de-triple” rooms over the coming weeks as vacancies become available, however we do still expect that some that remain. We will also work to de-triple rooms throughout the semester, as well. If your suite receives a fifth roommate, we will send an updated housing assignment letter.
At Alvernia University, each bathroom includes a shower, toilet, sink, and mirror. Alvernia provides each bathroom with a shower curtain with curtain rings, a toilet bowl plunger, and a toilet bowl brush. Alvernia provides toilet paper and trash bags for each bathroom. Students can communicate with their Resident Assistant when more toilet paper or trash bags are needed for their bathroom. It is the student’s responsibility to clean and upkeep their individual bathroom.
If the student is housed in Veronica Hall, housekeeping does daily cleaning of the showers and bathrooms as these are communal bathrooms.
For students living in Assisi and Siena Townhouses, Alvernia University also provides a broom, dustpan, trash bags, vacuum cleaner, a vacuum cleaner bag, mop, and a mop bucket.