University Housing & Dining Services

Fall 2012

Dear Students,

Greetings and welcome to University Housing & Dining Services!  We are pleased that you have chosen to live on campus, and look forward to helping make your stay a great experience.  We in UHDS have several key goals for students who are living with us; we want you to:

• Feel a sense of belonging, safety, and mutual respect in your residence hall or cooperative house;
• Succeed in your academic courses and studies, and make solid progress toward graduating from OSU;
• Be a responsible citizen and member of your residence hall or cooperative house, and your University; and
• Be a part of and enjoy the many activities and opportunities for learning, involvement, friendship, leadership, and fun that come with living on campus at OSU.

We believe that living in a residence hall or cooperative house can actually enrich and enhance your university education, as well as make your life at OSU more comfortable and convenient.  University Housing and Dining Services staff – your Resident Assistant (RA), Coop Director, Maintenance and Custodial teams, Resident Director, Dining Center staff, Service Center staff, academic partners, and the folks in our administrative offices – are ready and willing to work for and with you to provide a great living, learning, and dining experience – “The Experience of a Lifetime.”

Welcome to a great university -- Oregon’s Land Grant university -- that has been home to the only two-time individual Nobel Prize winner, a world-famous cookbook author, back-to-back NCAA National Champion baseball teams, a residence hall named in honor of a distinguished alumna and educator, the inventor of the computer mouse, the NBA’s “Ironman,” and the first American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest … a university where your opportunities are limited only by your imagination and passion.

Seize the opportunities, take care of each other and your new “home away from home,” and have a great year!

Sincerely,

Tom Scheuermann

Director, University Housing & Dining Services