New Student Registration

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New Student Registration

• Were glad youll be joining us at Indiana
  Wesleyan University!

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Questions you may have

• How do I get involved on campus?
• Who keeps me safe?
• How do I keep growing spiritually?
• How do I access the telephone and internet?
• Where do I eat?
• Where will I live on campus?
• Can I bring my car?
• Where do I get my mail?
• How do I know whats going on around campus?
• How do I get a job on campus?
• What if I need physical, academic, or emotional
  help?
• When can I move in?

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Resources in the booklet

• Answers to most of the questions you have right
  now!
• Detailed information on services and offices (Pg.
  4-11)
• Information Sources (Pg. 6)
• Office Directory (Pg. 8)
• Checklists (Pg. 16)
• Tasks to complete now
• Tasks to complete when you arrive in September

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A few important topics well cover today

• Parking
• ID Card
• Food service
• Commuters Life
• Housing

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PARKING

• Register your vehicle when you arrive in the fall
  through the Student Development Office
• You will need to know your license plate number
• All parking permits are 40
• Permits are exchanged for no charge in future
  years

• Parking locations
• Freshmen
• Will be farther from residence halls
• Upperclassmen
• Nearer to residence halls
• Commuters
• Yellow faculty/staff/commuter parking spaces

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ID CARD

• Pictures will be taken today
• Replacement cards are 10
• ID cards are used for
• Chapel attendance
• Library materials
• Food service
• Access into Residence Halls

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MEAL PLANS

• Option 1 23 Meals
• 23 meals per week
• Best value, but least flexible
• Option 2 Block 200
• 200 meals with 100 points
• Option 3 Block 150
• 150 meals with 275 points

• All full meal plans are the same price!
• All three plans can be used in either Wildcat
  Express or Baldwin Dining Center.
• Only options 2 and 3 allow meals to be shared
  with family friends.

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Transfer Students Additional Options

• Can select from options 1, 2, and 3 as described
  for freshmen
• Also partial meal plans
• Option 4 10 Meals
• Any 10 meals per week
• Option 5 Block 120
• 120 meals with 150 points

• Both partial meal plans are the same price!
• Both plans can be used in either Wildcat Express
  or Baldwin Dining Center.

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Important Meal Plan Information

• Meal plans are selected on the on-line housing
  form.
• All students are automatically given Option 3
  (Block 150) unless you request another plan.
• Meal plans can be changed each semester during
  the first two weeks of the semester.
• Only options 1, 2, and 3 keep you eligible for a
  Room Board Freeze in future semesters.
• Unused meals dont roll over to the spring
  semester, but unused points do.
• Leftover points/meals after the Spring semester
  do not roll over to May Term or the next fall.
• All resident students are required to have a meal
  plan.

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ON-CAMPUS JOBS

• Go to the wildcat page (wildcat.indwes.edu)
• Click on Academics and Job Postings
• Applications can be printed out and given to the
  appropriate office when you get here
• Check back frequently! Jobs are added as they
  become available.

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JUST FOR COMMUTERS

• Food Service
• You can load your account with money through the
  Pioneer Food Service office
• Commuter Lounge in the Student Center
• Lockers available through the Game Room
• Refrigerator, microwave, and sink
• Get involved on campus!
• Read the Pawprints to know whats going on!

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JUST FOR RESIDENTS

• Who is required to live on campus?
• All students, unless they are
• Living with their parents (not other relatives)
• Married
• 23 years of age or older
• A senior (90 earned credit hours)
• Taking 6 or less credit hours
• Where should I live?!?
• All of our facilities are excellent, so we
  strongly recommend requesting a hall based on the
  sense of community in that hall!

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Freshman Options

• All-Freshman Halls
• Shatford House Entire hall freshmen 90
  freshmen overall
• North Hall Co. East Entire hall freshman 90
  freshman overall
• Bowman House Entire hall freshmen 90 freshmen
  overall
• All-Freshman Living Units
• Martin Hall One all-freshman wing 55 freshmen
  overall
• Kem Hall One all-freshman floor 25 freshmen
  overall
• Freshman spaces interspersed with upperclassmen
• Carmin Hall Mixed through building 50 freshmen
  overall
• Evans Hall Mixed through building 25 freshmen
  overall
• Reed Hall Mixed through building 50 freshmen
  overall
• Hodson Hall Mixed through building 40 freshmen
  overall
• Scripture Hall Mixed through building 25
  freshmen overall

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Transfer Students ( Older Freshmen)

• May request any hall other than Bowman and
  Shatford, and North Hall Complex East
• Transfer Females may be placed in North Hall
  Complex West (all upperclassmen female hall)
• May request apartment areas if eligible
  
• Junior by credit hours (60 hours earned)
• OR 21 years old by the start of the semester
• Apartment areas are

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Housing Assignments Requests

• Housing Assignments
• Assignments will be mailed to your home by August
  10th.
• Your assignment and roommate information will be
  included.
• Housing Requests
• You may request preferred halls or roommates.
• Requests must be mutual to be paired together!
  (by ID )
• Requests can be made on your on-line application
  through
• July 19th.
• Requests received after July 19 cannot be
  honored.
• Requests are honored in the order that the
  tuition deposit was received by Admissions.
• Earlier date Better chance of getting into your
  first choice hall!
• Later date May not get preferred hall or
  roommate, may be in expanded housing

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What is furnished? What do I bring?
Important Items to Note SEE YOUR BOOKLET FOR A
COMPLETE LIST!!!

• FURNISHED
• Bunkable extra-long twin bed
• Computer desk chair
• Half of a 5-drawer chest
• Telephone
• Laundry, vending, TV, computer, exercise
  facilities

• BRING
• Extra long twin bedding pillow
• Clothes hangers
• Laundry supplies
• White sticky tack to hang decorations
• Answering machine
• School supplies
• Decorations to personalize your room

• DONT BRING
• Cooking appliances hot plate, toaster, George
  Foreman grill, microwave, etc.
• Halogen lamps
• Candles, incense, candle warmers
• Clothing that doesnt meet the dress code
• Posters and pictures inconsistent with IWU
  values, policies, and dress code
• R-rated movies M-rated video games
• Alcohol, tobacco, or drugs

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Expanded Housing

• What is expanded housing?
• Triples Adding a 3rd person to a room that
  normally holds 2
• Quads Adding a 4th person to a room that
  normally holds 3
• Which halls will have it?
• Evans, Martin Hall, Kem, Reed, Hodson, and
  Scripture
• How will I be compensated?
• Students who are assigned to expanded housing
  triples only (not quads) for longer than two
  weeks will receive a 4 per day housing rebate at
  the end of the semester.
• How do you decide who is in a triple?
• The date the tuition deposit was submitted to
  Admissions
• This year we will be full especially female
  spaces!
• There is a possibility that you may be in a
  tripled room!
• What if I want to triple with 2 other friends?
• Great! Just let us know and we can accommodate!

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Where do I go for more information?

• OVER THE SUMMER
• Student Life _at_ IWU booklet
• Student handbook online
• IWU webpage
• Course catalog
• Call the appropriate office

• AFTER YOU ARRIVE
• Student handbook
• Student webpage
• Visit the appropriate office

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A Unique Housing Option for Female Freshmen....
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Welcome to New Student Registration