How to Apply

1. Download the Housing & Dining Application
   
2. Download the Housing Contract and read it.
3. Complete the contract initialing each page. Make a copy for yourself and mail the original back to us with a check or money order for $25 non refundable application fee and a $200 refundable housing deposit.
4. No space will be reserved for you until application fee, deposit, and meningitis record, and signed contract are received in our office.
5. Spaces are available on a first come first served basis.
6. If you would prefer to receive a paper contract mailed to you, please email us at Housing@Txwes.edu or call our office at (817) 413-5000.
7. We have limited short term accommodations. These are typically reserved for distance learning students who need to be on the main campus for a short period of time (2 weeks-2 months). To apply for short term accommodations please download the Housing Application. Make a copy for yourself and mail the original back to us with a check or money order for $25 application fee and a $200 housing deposit.
8. Please visit our Health Services web page for information on required immunizations and forms. You will need to turn in an immunization form as well as a bacterial meningitis acknowledgement letter 10 days prior to moving into University Housing.

The Department of Residence Life at Texas Wesleyan University supports the mission of the university by providing students with a comfortable and convenient living environment while offering opportunities for increased campus involvement, social interaction and academic assistance. In support of the mission of the University and in recognition of the value of the on-campus residential experience, beginning the fall of 2011, all students with less than 30 college credit hours who are under the age of 21 are required to live in on-campus university housing unless they are married, divorced, live with their parents or have a dependent child. The Department of Residence Life in conjunction with the Dean of Students Office will review requests for an exemption to this policy on an individual basis.

If you do not wish to live on campus or feel you do not need a meal plan, please send in the Housing/Meal Plan Waiver in conjunction with your application.

Missing Student Policies and Procedures

Texas Wesleyan University takes student safety very seriously. To this end, the following policy and procedure has been established to assist in locating Wesleyan students living in Texas Wesleyan owned on-campus housing who, based on the facts and circumstances known to Texas Wesleyan, the University has determined to be missing.

Student Emergency Contact Form

1. At the beginning of each academic year, Texas Wesleyan will inform students residing in on-campus housing that the University will notify either a parent or an individual selected by the student not later than 24 hours after the time the student is determined to be missing. This information will include the following:
   1. Students have the option of identifying an individual to be contacted by Wesleyan not later than 24 hours after the time the student has been determined to be missing. Students can register this confidential contact information through the Housing Office.
   2. If the student is under 18 years of age, and not an emancipated individual, Wesleyan is required to notify a custodial parent or guardian not later than 24 hours after the time that the student is determined to be missing.
   3. Wesleyan will notify the appropriate law enforcement agency not later than 24 hours after the time that the student is determined to be missing.
   4. If Texas Wesleyan Security or law enforcement personnel has been notified and makes a determination that a student who is the subject of a missing person report has been missing for more than 24 hours and has not returned to campus, Wesleyan will initiate the emergency contact procedures in accordance with the student's designation.
2. The University will follow the following notification procedure for a missing student who resides in on-campus housing:
   1. Once the University receives a missing student report via the Dean's Office, University Security, Housing Office or other source, the following offices will be notified:
      -Texas Wesleyan Security
      -Undergraduate/Graduate Dean's Office
      -Housing Office
   2. Any official missing person report relating to this student shall be referred immediately to Security.
   3. If University Security, after investigating the official report, determines the student has been missing for more than 24 hours, Wesleyan will contact the individual identified by the student, the custodial parent or legal guardian if the student is under 18 and not emancipated, or local law enforcement if these do not apply.
3. Upon notification from any entity that any student may be missing, Wesleyan may use any of the following resources to assist in locating the student. These resources may be used in any order and combination.
   1. Through the Housing Office, the Resident Assistant may be asked to assist in physically locating the student by keying into the student's assigned room and talking with known associates.
   2. Security may search on campus public locations to find the student (library, cafeteria, etc.).
   3. Security may issue an ID picture to assist in identifying the missing student.
   4. The Dean's Office may try to contact known friends, family, or faculty members for last sighting or additional contact information.
   5. Student Affairs or academic departments may be contacted to seek information on last sighting or other contact information.
   6. Security may access card access logs to determine last use of the card and track the card for future uses.
   7. Security may access vehicle registration information for vehicle location and distribution to authorities.
   8. IT may be asked to look up email logs for last login and use of Wesleyan email system.
   9. If there is any indication of foul play, the local police department will immediately be contacted for assistance.