Winter Recess Housing

All residents who plan to stay on campus at any point between December 16, 2024, and January 18, 2025, must complete the Winter Recess Housing Application.

  • Apartment & Husky Village Residents: You must fill out the application so staff knows who is on campus, but you will not be charged a housing fee.
  • Mid-Year Move Process: Students staying for winter recess are not eligible to participate in the Mid-Year Move Process.
  • Spring Room Changes: If you want to change rooms for the spring semester, you must wait for the Spring Room Change Process. The application for this opens around January 23, 2025.

Winter Recess Housing Application

Available November 1, 2024 – December 6, 2024 via your MyHousing Portal

  • All students who will need on-campus accommodations at any point during Winter Recess (December 16, 2024 - January 18, 2025) must submit the Winter Recess Housing Application
  • When filling out the application please indicate the reason you are staying on campus. If the reason you are staying does not match one of the provided options, please choose other.

Winter Recess Housing Charges

Traditional and Suite Style - Placed on Fee Bill in January 2025

Students who live in traditional and suite style housing can now choose to either remain on campus for all of Winter Recess or for part of the break.

  • Remain on campus/have access to your residence hall for the entire break period. This includes occasional days throughout the whole break.
  • Remain on campus/have access to your residence hall for the first portion of break. This includes any dates from December 16th after 12pm to December 27th at 4pm.
  • Return to campus/have access to your residence hall for any part of the second portion of Winter Recess. This includes any dates from January 2nd, 2025 up to opening weekend.

Rates

  • Winter Recess Housing Charge – Entire Winter Recess: $768
  • Winter Recess Housing Charge – First or Second Portion of Winter Recess: $384

Students living in an apartment or in Husky Village are required to complete this application to ensure Campus Housing staff have accurate records of all students who will on campus over the break. Students living in an apartment or Husky Village will not be charged a housing fee for Winter Recess.

Winter Recess Dining

All students living in a dorm/suite will be required to have a Winter Break meal plan, dining at our McMahon Dining unit.

  • Fall residential meal plans end with dinner on Sun., 12/15/24 and Winter Session meal plans begin Mon. 12/16/24
  • All winter break residents not residing in an on campus apartment complex are required to have the following Winter Session meal plan:

Rate

  • Weekly Break Plan: 21 meals per week (1 breakfast, 1 lunch and 1 dinner per day) for $167 per week

Policies

  • Unused meals do not rollover to the following day.
  • Students assigned to an apartment will not be assigned a Weekly Break Plan. However, options are available to purchase through our office.
  • Meal plans can not be pro-rated. Meal plans are purchased by the week, Sunday – Saturday.
  • Students who are required to have a meal plan and do not select one will automatically be assigned the Weekly Break Plan.

Eligibility for Winter Recess Housing

Students can request to remain on-campus for the reasons listed below. Students on University probation will not be permitted to remain on-campus. Students who wish to live on campus over Winter Recess must have both a Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 housing assignments and cannot have participated in the Mid-Year Room Change Process.

  • Enrolled in Winter Intersession course
  • Working for University department (must provide proof of employment)
  • Academic internship (must provide proof of participation)
  • Affiliated with University team requiring accommodations during Winter Recess
  • International Student unable to return home.

Academic Internship/Employment Verification

Students who are participating in an academic internship or who are working on-campus during Winter Recess must provide proof of their employment/participation to Campus Housing. An email from the employment or academic supervisor is sufficient.

Internship/Employment Verification
Email with the following information to livingoncampus@uconn.edu.

  • Include student's first/last name, 7 digit student ID number or NetID
  • State that student will be completing internship or is employed by department
  • Dates of internship/employment

Winter Recess Staffing & Policies

Students remaining on-campus during Winter Recess will have limited access to Campus Housing staff. Due to the holidays and reduced staffing, residents who remain on-campus during this time must contact Operations Center at (860) 486-3113 if they are locked out of their residence. Facilities related incidents that need immediate attention need to be reported to (860) 486-3113. All emergencies should be reported to the UConn Police Department at 911.

Students must adhere to all University policies during Winter Recess. Please refer to the Housing Contract and the Temporary Health and Safety Procedures for information regarding specific policies. Students may be asked to leave housing if policies are violated. Remaining on campus during a time when classes are not in session is a privilege, and thus students are expected to uphold a high level of responsibility while staffing is limited.

Overnight guests will not be permitted during Winter Recess, due to limited staffing and specific billing policies.

 

 

Cancelling Winter Recess Housing

The application will be available until December 6, 2024. Any student who does not submit an application will not have access to the residence halls during Winter Recess. Any student who requests to cancel their Winter Recess housing after 5:00pm, December 6, 2024, will be charged the partial Winter Recess housing fee of $384. The Winter Recess Housing Fee can not be appealed.

Questions?

If you have questions regarding Winter Recess housing, please call (860) 486-2926 or email livingoncampus@uconn.edu.