Service Animal and Assistance Animal Roommate Agreement
- By my signature below, I acknowledge that I have been informed that either my direct roommate or my suitemate is the owner of a Service Animal or Assistance Animal.
- I consent to share the common spaces of my suite and (if my roommate is the owner of an animal) my room with a service or assistance animal.
- If I should have any concerns about the care and control of the animal, I will address them first with my roommate/suitemate, and then with the Resident Director or the Accommodations and Accessibility Coordinator.
- I understand that service and assistance animals and their handlers are subject to the behavioral standards outlined below.
- I will not in any way undermine these behavioral standards, and if I have concerns about them I will bring them to the attention of the necessary parties.
Service and Assistance Animal Behavioral Standards
- Approved Assistance Animals may be present only in the student’s assigned room or apartment.
- They may not visit other rooms within the residence hall, nor may they be in public areas of the residence hall except when in transit to or from the student’s assigned room or apartment.
- The animal is present in the residence hall to serve as an Assistance Animal for the approved student, not to serve as the hall pet.
- Assistance Animals must be old enough to have received all appropriate vaccinations and to meet minimum behavioral standards in order not to be a nuisance or a cause of damage in the residence hall.
- Assistance Animals may not be in university housing without approval from the Accommodations and Accessibility Coordinator.
Students may be asked to remove their assistance animal either temporarily or permanently from university housing for any of the following reasons:
- The animal poses a threat to the health or safety of others, as determined by the Vice President for Student Life and Enrollment or his appointee.
- The animal would cause or has caused substantial physical damage to the property of the university or other residents.
- The animal’s presence would pose an undue financial or administrative burden to the university.
- The animal would fundamentally alter the nature of the university’s housing operations.