FAQs and Policies

We choose your roommate based on the compatibility of responses in your housing questionnaire. As a freshman you’ll get your housing assignment in July. Upperclass students choose by the end of spring semester. It is possible to choose your roommate if you know someone you’d like to share with.

Talk with your RA to set up a mediation. If mediation fails, email your RD or AC and setup an appointment to figure out next steps.

All rooms are furnished with XL twin beds. You can create bunk beds if you and your roommate agree to do so.

Meal plans are included with room and board. Click here to read all about your options!

Bulldog Bucks
Bulldog Bucks work like a debit card, with funds being deposited into your Wingate University account as part of your meal plan. They can be used only for dining. You can use them at Einstein Bros., Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, and more dining locations around campus. All residential students are allotted $285 in Bulldogs Bucks, which expire at the end of each semester. For more information about dining, check out the WingateEats website.

Dining Options:

• W.T. Harris Dining Hall
• Einstein Bros. Bagels 
• Freshëns Fresh Food Studio 
• Chick-fil-A 
• Wild Blue
• Starbucks
• Pizza Hut
• Marketplace

More about dining

Yes, students can have a vehicle on campus, but they must have a parking decal and are restricted to parking in areas assigned to their specific decal. Parking decals can be picked up in the Office of Campus Safety. At the beginning of the fall semester, all students can get a parking decal during Welcome Week.

For video and photos of first-year housing, please click here.

Freshmen receive their housing assignment in July, and upperclassmen sign up for housing during the spring semester for the next academic year.

If you want to commute, you need to let the Office of Residence Life know before the start of the semester. You’ll need to submit a Commuting Student Application to the Office of Residence Life. The application goes through an approval process. Students who are at least 23 years old (on or before the first day of classes), ninth-semester seniors or living in the principle residence of their parents or guardians have the option of living off campus. Unless living in the principle residence of a parent or guardian, all scholarship student-athletes are required to live on campus.

For first-year students, the following options are available:

• Alumni Hall offers two-person rooms as well as four-person rooms.
• Cannon Hall offers two-person rooms as well as four-person rooms.
• CM Black Hall offers two-person rooms.
• Helms Hall offers suite-style living; each suite has four rooms with up to two people to a room.
• JM Smith Hall offers two-person rooms.

Please contact the Office of Residence Life regarding availability. If space is available, there may be a per day charge for early arrivals.

There is absolutely no alcohol allowed in the traditional first-year student residence halls (Alumni, Cannon and JM Smith). All other residences are allowed to have alcohol if all current residents are 21 years old, the legal drinking age in North Carolina. If you are 21, you may not take alcohol into another apartment or residence on campus if those residents are under age.

Students living on campus are allowed to have fish that can survive in a five-gallon tank. Cats, dogs, rabbits, snakes, turtles and other animals are not permitted as pets. Students who have pets that do not fall under the above guidelines may incur a community standards violation with financial assessments.

An assistance animal (the category under which an ESA would be categorized) is permitted only as an approved student accommodation. Students seeking academic or non-academic accommodations at Wingate University must self-declare a disability and provide supporting documentation as a first step in requesting reasonable accommodations. There are different rules for service dogs, which are welcome on campus too. For more information, email k.wharton@wingate.edu.

There are six buildings primarily designated for first-year students, with a few wonderful themed-living communities. All first-year residence halls are coed to varying degrees: by floor, wing or alternating room. Students can indicate their preference on the housing questionnaire.

If you have any questions regarding on-campus living at Wingate University after reading the following information, please contact the Office of Residence Life and Involvement at res.life@wingate.edu or 704-233-8663.
 

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If you hear a disturbance, first talk to those who are causing it. If the noise continues, go to your RA or CA and let them know about the problem or call Campus Safety at 704-233-8999.

If students have identified an empty room they would like to move into and the roommate(s) agree with the move, the students with the space must notify the Office of Residence Life to begin the process for moving. If students do not know of a space to move into, they can contact the Office of Residence Life to talk about the availability of spaces to move into.

Yes, you can loft or bunk your bed. If you choose to loft your bed, please be aware there’s a two-part approval process. You must receive permission from the residence director before lofting.

The Office of Residence Life will also follow up to ensure that the loft is constructed in a responsible and structurally sound way. Students who do not construct satisfactory lofts are required to dismantle them. We will not remove any furniture from the room or apartment. We do not offer University-owned lofting kits to students, though students are permitted to build or buy their own. Students are responsible for all furniture associated with a loft, such as ladders and stools.

We do provide bunking materials for students. Students need to come by the Office of Residence Life to obtain bunking pins for beds.

Alumni, Cannon, CM Black and JM Smith have carpeted rooms.

Refrigerators and microwaves are allowed in residence halls. Apartments have an oven, refrigerator, stove and dishwasher. Please do not bring any items with an open flame or burner coils.

Each residential building is equipped with a free laundry. All you need to provide is laundry supplies.

The measurements for the residence hall rooms and the apartments can be found on the undergraduate residence halls page. There is some variation between room measurements within a single building.

There are co-ed buildings with men on one floor and women on another or in apartments next to each other. However, students of opposite sexes may not room together in the same apartment or residence hall room.

For buildings with a traditional residence hall layout, access to floors is provided by ID cards unique to each individual.

Each room and apartment is equipped with individual AC and heating units to be controlled by the residents.

You can bring your own bedding, but you’re not allowed to remove any University-provided furniture from the room.

There is wireless Internet access available throughout campus, including the lobbies of residence halls, rooms and apartments, academic buildings, the Dickson-Palmer Center and the library.

Residential students should buy an Ethernet cable to use while in the residence halls and apartments. Personal wireless routers are prohibited, since they disrupt the wireless signals for all students in each building. Also, wireless printers need to have the wireless setting deactivated, since they also interfere with the wireless signal for other students.

Housekeeping cares for the community-style bathrooms and the common spaces in the first-year residential areas. Housekeeping is not responsible for cleaning the residents’ rooms or apartments.

CAs, RAs and RDs go through apartments, halls and rooms to check for safety violations monthly. CAs, RAs and RDs do not go through residents’ belongings; they simply check the surface of what’s in plain sight for safety hazards, cleanliness and violations. Students are not informed when checks are performed.

Yes, all twin beds are XL.

Community bathrooms including showers and toilets are located in the freshman residence halls. Bathrooms shared between two to three people are found in upperclassman areas.

Students should not remove University furniture from any room or apartment. If something is damaged or defective, please notify the Office of Residence Life. Students who bring their own furniture should not expect the University to remove any furniture they have rendered “additional” by bringing their own.