Winter Break

Halls Closed: December 13, 2024, at noon–January 4, 2025

Residence halls close at noon on Friday, December 13, 2024. Winter move-in is January 4, 2025. Current residents will be able to return January 4, 2025, after 9:00 a.m. New students will check in at their service center beginning at noon. There will be limited services available. 

Before leaving for winter break, students will be asked to complete an end of term plans form to indicate if they are:

  • Leaving for winter break and returning to live on campus for winter term (date leaving and date returning)
  • Continuing to live on campus for winter term and require winter break housing
  • Checking out of your room at the end of fall term and not returning for winter term

Late Stay or Winter Break Housing 

If you need to stay in the residence halls over winter break (noon on December 13, 2024, to January 4, 2025), please submit a request on My Housing to be considered. Please note there is a $36 daily fee for checking out of the residence halls late (after Friday, December 13, at noon). If you stay beyond December 15, you will be charged $792 for winter break housing instead. Since rates for Yasui Hall are inclusive of winter break, this additional charge does not apply to Yasui residents.

Keys and Move-out

Students who are returning to the residence halls for winter term will keep their keys (if they have them) with them over winter break. Students who are checking out of the residence halls at the end of fall term need to return their room and mail box keys to the service center before leaving for winter break. There is a $75 fee for keys not returned, $65 for a lock change on the room, and $10 for a replacement mail box key. Students who decide to not return to campus for winter term but did not check out before leaving for winter break will need to return to campus to remove their items and return their keys. Keys will not be accepted through the mail and items are not able to be shipped to students.

Dining

University housing dining will be closed during winter break, with limited venues opening on Saturday, January 4. The dining venues in the EMU will be open for limited hours. For detailed hours visit map.uoregon.edu/food.

Meal Points

Your prorated meal points for the week of December 8–13 will be as follows:

  • Residents with 50 meal points per week will have: 43 meal points.
  • Residents with 65 meal points per week will have: 56 meal points.
  • Residents with 80 meal points per week will have: 69 meal points.
  • Residents with 95 meal points per week will have: 81 meal points.

Students will also have prorated points for Saturday, January 4.

Housing Service Centers Winter Break Hours

  • Close at 7:00 p.m. on December 13
  • Open December 14–January 4, noon-5:00 p.m. (except holidays)
  • Closed December 24-26, 31; and January 1
  • Open January 5, 8:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.

New Roommates May Move In

Rooms with vacancies may be entered to prepare the space for a new resident. Please be sure that your belongings are not on the side of the room the new resident will be using. In the event that you come back from break and find a new roommate living in your room, we hope that you will extend them a warm UO welcome and provide them equitable space to share the room.

Maintenance

Scheduled maintenance may be completed during break. This includes checking smoke detectors, door locks, heaters, and other projects. This will require University Housing staff to be in the rooms. If you have any questions or concerns, please visit or call your University Housing service center.