Housing Policies and Regulations

[The following was approved on October 15, 1980, with amendments on June 12, 2002 , July 8, 2009, and August 28, 2026 in accordance with provisions set forth in SIU Board of Trustees 3 Policies B.]

1. On-Campus Residency Requirement.  All single students under the age of 21, who enroll at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and are within two years of graduating from high school are required to live in University-owned and operated residence halls, unless they reside with a parent or legal guardian within a forty-five (45)  mile radius of campus. In cases where a student’s circumstances may be extenuating, University Housing will evaluate those instances and may grant exemptions to the residency requirement and allow for off-campus housing.
2. Review of Regulations. All administrative regulations and services shall be reviewed annually to ensure that the best interests of the university, its students, and the community are preserved. No regulation shall be established which would be inconsistent with the contractual obligation of the university to maintain full occupancy in university facilities built with bonded debt financing.
3. Prohibition in sponsoring off-campus housing. In the interest of fairness to all off-campus housing developers and landlords, the university will remain impartial with respect to sponsoring off-campus housing facilities. The university will do none of the following:
   1. guarantee a specific number of occupants for any development;
   2. underwrite, pledge, encumber, subsidize, or in any way guarantee a specific monetary sum to developers or to any financing agency;
   3. obligate the State of Illinois to the expenditure of time, money, or labor in promoting, managing, or supporting any off-campus student housing development;
   4. allow any off-campus student housing development to use the name of Southern Illinois University, or any reasonable facsimile or appropriation of an integral part thereof in any part of its title.