Sep 18, 2024  
2024-2025 Student Handbook 
    
2024-2025 Student Handbook

Residence Hall Charges


Category Charge
Trash
The following are chargeable:
Emptying room trash into a bathroom trash can. Leaving trash in the hallways or stairwells.
$75 minimum per student per bag (no matter size), per instance
Leaving trash in the lounges, kitchens, and balconies and emptying room trash into a lounge trash can. Pizza boxes need to be properly disposed of. $150 per student per instance
Trash left in the hallway of residence hall (repeated offenses and no one can be identified, entire hall is charged) $75 minimum per bag (no matter the size), divided by the number of residents on the floor
Biohazards
The following are chargeable: Urine, feces, condoms, or vomit-any matter found in the QU housing facilities.
Depending on the situation, this may become an investigation with security.
Blood
Any blood cleanup in bathrooms, hallways, walls, carpet, lounges, etc…. If the incident was accidental and an attempt was made to clean up, no charge will occur.
$150 per student per instance
Damaged Door Lock $400
Lost Key which includes Core Lock Charge $150 per key + $150 core lock change
Missing Lounge Furniture
Furniture in public areas must be kept. Each month, an inventory of the community furniture is taken. Items found missing will be billed to ALL residents living in that hall or on the floor regarding the missing furniture. The following are approximate replacement costs for community furniture.
 
Couch: $800-$1000
Love Seat: $600-$800
Lounge Chair: $500-$700
End Table: $200-$400
Study Table: $800-$1000
Room Cleanliness
This charge may be assessed if a room is excessively dirty during the school year or at check-outs. 
$200 a minimum per student.
Life safety equipment (fire extinguisher, smoke detectors, etc.)
Tampering fines per instance, per person. This includes covering smoke detectors.
$100 (1st), $120 (2nd), $140 (3rd) etc.
Replacement of QU Student ID $25 per ID
Parking Tickets Range from $30-$250
The following are chargeable:
  • Removing food from flooring, walls, ceilings, stairs, etc.
  • Removing sputum from walls, bathroom stalls, etc.
  • Cleaning food, tobacco chew, excessive toothpaste, etc., out of sinks/water fountains.
  • Cleaning graffiti off walls.
  • Cleaning excessive shaving cream off sinks, stalls, floors, etc.
  • Cleaning hair left behind from a haircut done in the bathroom.
$200 an hour minimum
Excessive Cleaning because of an animal $300 an hour, and the cost of replacement furniture, flooring, walls, etc. may be incurred.
Littering on campus (trash, cigarette butts, etc..) $100 per instance
Room Changes without authorization $300 and $100 a night
Broken or missing furniture in individual room Range from $200-$1000
Compromising the security of the building (i.e… pebbling the doors, tampering with the key card entrance, etc..) $100 (1st), $120 (2nd), $140 (3rd) etc. plus a sanction

**Additional potential charges are listed in the policy sections of the handbook.