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(03/11/26 1:55am)
Housing and Residence Life selected third-year Engineering student Aali Siddiqui and third-year College student Leela Trujillo to serve as co-chairs of the Resident Staff Program Feb. 23. The decision came after HRL reopened its co-chair application cycle Feb. 9 and closed it Feb. 16 after receiving only two applicants during the initial round open December through January, a notably smaller pool than in previous years.
(11/11/25 3:14am)
A new on-Grounds housing policy concerning residential colleges changed the reapplication system to give rising second-years who are returning to the colleges priority in the housing process. The change is part of a broader move by the University to prioritize on-Grounds housing for rising second-years in an effort to house all second-years on Grounds within the coming years, and follows the same change to the regular on-Grounds housing process earlier this year. Some residents say they are unhappy with the change and feel that it goes against the values of residential colleges.
(10/25/25 3:00pm)
Earlier this year, Housing and Residence Life quietly cut a number of training modules concerning diversity, equity, and inclusion for resident advisors. While the impetus of this change may be related to the July 29 guidance document from the Office of the Attorney General, these sudden and undiscussed changes nullify the benefits that prior inclusion and belonging training had for the role of RAs. Moreover, HRL did not transparently inform their own student leaders, intensifying a continuous division between students and the administration in the governance of residence halls on Grounds. In trying to sweep under the rug their debilitation of RAs and their apathy towards students at our University, HRL tangibly disadvantages the residential communities it seeks to build.
(10/03/25 12:51am)
The Student Council discussed concerns around the University's recent on-Grounds housing policy change and Friday’s field storm following the football game during Tuesday’s general body meeting. Student Council also received an update that the Cavalier Career Closet received a donation of business attire from a local church and that November Airbus tickets — a low-cost shuttle service to Dulles and Richmond airports — are live.
(09/06/25 2:00pm)
Nota de la editora: Este artículo fue escrito originalmente por Lucia Gambacini el 1 de septiembre de 2025. Trabajamos para preservar el significado original en la traducción, pero no lo podemos garantizar.
(09/02/25 2:51am)
This year, Housing and Residence Life has eliminated diversity, equity and inclusion and multicultural training for resident advisors, according to anonymous resident staff. In addition, HRL’s Committee on Multiculturalism has been absorbed by the Resident Staff Engagement Committee without any formal announcement to resident staff. These changes follow national mandates to dissolve DEI programs and pressure on the University from the Justice Department to comply with federal law prohibiting these programs.
(05/25/25 6:20pm)
Pria Dua, Issy Denevan
(06/08/25 3:28pm)
Housing and Residence Life at the University is defined by many evolving paradoxes. Thinking about on-Grounds dorms conjures up images of mold and floods, just as quickly as it exemplifies shiny new developments in Gaston-Ramazani and the Ivy Corridor. Similarly, the same organization that uniquely grants resident advisors self-governance is also the one which repeatedly has disempowered those very leaders. These paradoxes seem to be deeply ingrained in the culture surrounding HRL’s administrative decisions. And as HRL continues to revise long-standing systems under the guise of progress, these paradoxes increasingly reveal a pattern of undermining grassroots student leadership.
(05/16/25 1:31am)
After changing the assignment system last spring, Housing and Residence Life is now using another new system for matching residence staff to housing. All residence advisors and senior residents serving in the 25-26 year for HRL used an individual, online choice platform through the University’s housing portal, which is also used for upperclassmen housing selections. The only exception to this new process are RAs and SRs who will be living in any residential colleges, as they undergo a separate process.
(04/22/25 3:44am)
While the Lawn has 54 rooms available to fourth-year students, only 48 are assigned through the competitive review process overseen by the Lawn selection committee. The other six rooms are endowed to a specific organization or group.
(04/16/25 3:04pm)
Nota de la editora: Este artículo fue escrito originalmente por Leigh Bailey el 6 de abril de 2025. Trabajamos para preservar el significado original en la traducción, pero no podemos garantizarlo.
(04/07/25 1:59am)
In a departure from prior precedent, Housing and Residence Life stated it would no longer offer priority to upperclassmen, according to an email sent to current on-Grounds residents March 24. Some upperclass students have expressed anxiety about the potential of finding alternative and affordable housing options for their third and fourth years.
(04/01/25 9:41pm)
Editor’s note: This article is a humor column.
(02/14/25 3:59am)
Student Council passed three resolutions during Tuesday’s general body meeting, which include moving the deadline for on-Grounds housing applications to an earlier date in the academic year, approving five new Contracted Independent Organizations and installing more water fountains in first-year dorms. Student Council also announced that Student Health and Wellness will be providing free STI testing for University students for the rest of the spring semester. The meeting was held via Zoom due to a winter storm which paused University operations Tuesday and Wednesday.
(10/08/24 4:00am)
对于2025-26 学年的住房搜索已拉开帷幕，许多学生已经签订了明年的租约。入学仅两个月，大一新生就要在大量的校内和校外住房中做出选择，同时还要考虑潜在室友、费用和可用性等因素。
(02/13/25 12:21am)
After the 2025-26 on-Grounds housing selection period came to an end Jan. 31, many students were left with less-than-ideal housing options. Changes in the process forced many groups to split last-minute and led so me to turn to more costly off-Grounds options. For some students, most on-Grounds housing options filled up before every student had their assigned selection time.
(01/24/25 5:54pm)
I dislike hand dryers, so I have had a bone to pick with Housing and Residence Life for three years. In December 2021, at the end of my first semester at the University, an email from HRL informed residents of McCormick Road dorms that the paper towels they had enjoyed since matriculation had only been a temporary COVID-19 mitigation measure — and would be removed as of January 2022. My petition and my peers’ outrage made no difference in the decision, and we were soon towelless in Lefevre House.
(01/06/25 8:15pm)
When you think about student self-governance at the University, Student Council or the Honor Committee might come to mind — but not Housing and Residence Life. I too was struck by this as a new Resident advisor because it seemed to me that student self-governance was similarly intrinsic to the organization of HRL as it is for Student Council. During my first week of orientation training this summer, co-chairs and vice chairs of HRL were the ones at the front of the room, students who infused their RA experiences into their presentations. The importance of these student leaders to the program was further emphasized by a Virginia Magazine article which introduced HRL’s two co-chairs alongside other major student leaders like Student Council president. Nevertheless, what I had experienced and what I had heard from returning RAs contradicted the public emphasis on the self-governing structures of HRL.
(01/23/25 4:57am)
Housing and Residence Life has been under ever more scrutiny this past year. Much of this bad press has to do with HRL’s evolving relationship with Resident Advisors. Specifically, scrutiny has arisen due to compromised RA autonomy and a lack of compensation for their work. HRL has a host of guidelines that theoretically navigate and govern the power imbalance between RAs and HRL. However, those guidelines seem to directly contradict some of the actions taken by HRL. Increasingly, this relationship does not resemble a voluntary partnership between two equally powerful allies, but rather a hugely hierarchical dynamic in which both treat RAs as school property to be managed and HRL fails to compensate them. The dissonance between the de facto status of RAs and their compensation will inevitably hurt both current RAs and prospective applicants, compromising HRL’s ability to realize its mission.
(12/09/24 3:44am)
Student Council passed a resolution calling to begin a conversation with Housing and Residence Life about how to improve administrative support for Resident Advisors. Additionally, Student Council heard a presentation from two members of the Organizations branch about the funding process for Contracted Independent Organizations.
