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Housing and Dining

University Residences & Campus Dining

Mission statement

To provide safe, quality community living environments with emphasis on education, service to the community, and respect for diversity.


Freshman Live-In Requirement

First year students who enroll at WOU within one year of high school graduation regardless of class standing must live on campus for the full academic year (Fall, Winter and Spring terms). Exceptions to this requirement may be requested by petition. Exceptions that are generally approved are as follows:

  • Living at Home with Parents, within a 30 mile radius of WOU.
  • Having a Dependent that is living with you.
  • Marriage.

Other exceptions will be evaluated, but are generally not approved. If waiver of the live-in requirement is approved a $7.00/day cancellation fee for each day remaining in the contract will be applied to the student's account.



Resident Assistant Selection 2009-2010

Thanksgiving and Winter Break Information

The Office of University Residences and Campus Dining will be CLOSED for Thanksgiving Break on Thursday, November 27-Sunday, November 30th. Regular office hours will resume at 8:00 am on Monday, December 1st. For more information regarding this and other up-coming breaks, please use the link below.
  University Residences Western Oregon University
345 N. Monmouth Ave.
Monmouth, OR 97361
503-838-8311
or e-mail housing@wou.edu
Last Updated: Wednesday, 19 November, 2008 04:29 PM

 
Located in the heart of Oregon’s lush Willamette Valley, Western Oregon University is the oldest institution in the Oregon University system with an award-winning campus that blends welcoming traditional features with multimedia classrooms, wireless web access and a state-of-the-art library. WOU is home to the nationally-renowned Teaching Research Institute, the Regional Resource Center on Deafness and the Rainbow Dance Theatre with approximately two-thirds of its students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the rest in the College of Education.