 Hi, welcome everybody. This is our live Facebook session about move-in and we're going to answer your questions today about the move-in and the move-in process. So here at the U of A, we have approximately 6,000 students who live on campus counting our Greek houses. That's a lot of students. That's a lot of students and they're all going to arrive in a very short time span. Thursday and Friday next week are sporting and band recruitment move-ins and then on Saturday will be our unassisted move-in and then on Monday will be our existing move-in. And so we're going to walk you through that process as we go through. I'll show you this clothing I've got on and why we're not aware. Do you mind Billy taking me through your hats and your vest? Great, sure. Well as you get to the parking lot you will see volunteers and parking lot coordinators who will be wearing an orange vest like this. That's the orange vest, gotcha. That's it. So they'll kind of help direct you to get to a parking spot and we're going to show you a demonstration of what that looks like in just a second. Also our volunteers, particularly for those of you who are moving in Monday for the assisted move-in, will have hats like this so they'll help you identify them. And many of them will be wearing their group shirt whether they're helping for a fraternity or a local church organization or whatever the organization is. We invite the community in to help so that's a big part of it. If you're in the community you can contact our Voluntary Action Center on campus and we would love to have your help in welcoming our Razorbacks to campus as they come in in a few weeks. So what we wanted to do today was kind of walk you through a little bit of our move-in process, how we do it, what it looks like and how to help you do it. The first thing we want to remind you though before we get started is if you go to our website move-in.york.edu there's lots of wonderful information there. We know a lot of people aren't familiar with the area. We will have move-in maps of Monday morning so you can see how for your specific call what is the best route. There's lots of construction on campus as the university continues to grow. So we want you to look at those move-in maps follow them and we'll get you around the construction and the most efficient way to get to your residence hall. And those will be available Monday morning. We'll have them up on the site right now. You know we're kind of in the prepare to arrive phase of our website but we're about to get into the arrive time phase. One of the biggest things if you have not done this already please go pick a move-in arrival time. It's critical for our process that you're able to pick those arrival times and make those through. If you have any questions or you're trying to go through that process please make sure that you are done that you picked your arrival time. You can refer to your contract status page. If you've got what time you signed up for arrival time it's on your contract status page in your contracting process through your housing portal when you signed your contract and did those steps. If you have any questions feel free to go refer to that for your arrival time. Let's talk about arrival time. We emphasize the term arrival time instead of move-in time. The reason we do that is we want you to know that there are a couple steps that you need to do as you show up and kind of as you arrive on campus. That's one of the first things you do. You'll actually pull up, park in the lot and we're going to show you that in a second. You'll get your keys and check in. But if you haven't already make sure you log into your contracting portal and do your contract status page and make sure that you've done the safety addendum and the confidential contact. There are two of the steps you have to do during the move-in process. Do it before, make it easy on yourself before you arrive on campus. Do it on the front end then you'll have to do it the day after. That's smart. And as of a couple days ago almost half of the students are moving in for next year have already done that. So the props to those of you who've done that are ready. But let's go ahead and do that and get that out of the way and that's two of the steps you have to do as we go into the move-in process. Now Billy we didn't have a question that's already come in and it's the question, when do we find out about special requests? Special arrival request, continue to check your UR email. We've got quite a few of those and our assignment staff and our administrative services staff, associate director are processing those and putting those out. So check your email, feel free to email us if you just need a status follow-up. But they're trying to turn those over within a five-day process as it says on the form as quickly as they can and deal with the volume as well. Right. So just an apology about the sound we have a truck going through the parking lot right now. Live TV, you may not know what you're going to get. But you're saying so check your email, continue to check your email and five days is about the turnaround. Five days is a turnaround for the special arrival request. We try to take as many special arrival requests as we can and also understand there are factors with those. The parking is very limited so it's very difficult. So we want to try to get people into the process. We can handle all 6,000 students who go through the move-in process. So if at all possible, please make sure you sign up for arrival time within the fields that are available. Sarah asks, where do we go if we got approved for the special arrival? Check your UR email. That'll give you the information. Yep, we'll send all correspondence to your UR email. Even if we're not available to exactly meet your request, we'll send that to you as well. Fantastic. So we're in Reed parking lot right now, right? We are. We're in the Reed Maple Hill parking lot. And we kind of picked this particular lot. And one of the reasons we did is it's actually a lot that is, as you can see, there's not a lot of parking spaces out here. But there are over about 1,500 students who will use this parking lot for a move-in. So the process is very detailed. That's why it's important for you to come at your arrival time. And it will show you the process, how to get you through here. So Christopher, we're ready. We're ready. We're ready to bring our actor, driver and student in. So we have two of our staff members, Kent, and they're going to come in right now. And we're going to show you how the move-in process works. So if you can see the red car off in the distance, please ignore the truck that has decided to go through our parking lot right now. Now, he would have stopped at the front to get a parking pass, is that right? We would have actually directed him into the lot. And there would have been a volunteer who would have directed him into a parking spot. So I'm going to pull in. I'm going to get Kent and our student to kind of pull in into a parking space right here. Again, the people with the best will help you pull into your parking space. Now, what we're going to demonstrate here is the unassisted process that will happen Thursday, Friday and Saturday. So if you're moving in one of these three days, you'll get it. So after someone directs you to your spot, you're going to come in and someone will come up to your car and greet you. So Kent, how you doing? Welcome to the University of Arkansas. Welcome to the U of A. Woo! Nice to meet you. One thing that we plan for is we assume that a lot of people are going to come with two cars. So for our example here, we put our parent and our student in the same car, but don't worry about that. We're planned and we're prepared for two cars. For two cars, okay. So the only thing that we ask that you do not bring a U-Haul trailer is you can see the lot small. It's really difficult to get trailers in here. And so we don't allow them to move in. So please be cautious and aware of that. But what will happen? Let me pause for just a second. We got a question and I want to go ahead and answer it. Makayla asks, where do we go if we're moving in for rock camp on Tuesday? Is that something we need to answer later? Yeah, we'll follow up with Makayla because the rock camp process is a little bit different for this. But the parking lots will still be open at that point. They have not been closed like they will be and then available for only 15 minutes. Makayla and Jean who are asking about rock camp, we will get that answer for you and post it here. So great question. Thank you for sending that in. But you will get it. We'll put a dash on your dashboard here. We'll put a move in parking form. Most parking lots are about a 30 minute time. So from the time you pull in your lot, you have 30 minutes in that. We do ask that you're very cautious about that. Use the 30 minutes because we have a lot of other students and we want to maximize the ability to get you as close to the building as possible. So if you can be courteous to others and make sure the 30 minutes are followed. Last year was my first year doing that. I would describe it as a fast but controlled pace. It is. We ask for a lot of feedback about the move in process and we typically find that parents and students don't feel rushed because we do get them very close to the building. And we want to make it as easy as possible for you on move in day. So you'll get the car. So what will happen in this situation here is our student and our parent. Is there a student in there? Hello. Hey student. So this is Blake who's actually a staff member but was a former student at the U of A. So she's going to help us out. So in this case Blake would actually get out of the car. The parent will start unloading at this point and then Blake would get out of our car at different points depending on the building you're in. And we're at Reed at the Maple area right now. There will be white tents that you will see across campus and whoever's helping you with your parking pass will direct you to your tent. So don't worry about trying to find that. Okay. You'll go straight to your tent. So what will Blake will do after she's parked her car and the parent is parked her car. At this point the parent will start unloading. Blake will go over to the tent take her ID with her. So very important. Please make sure you bring your ID. Say that again. So what do we what does she need to do? She'll bring her ID with her and she'll go over to the tent. Okay. The non-existent tent but it would be right here. For Reed Hall this is actually where your tent would be. Okay. A move in day. So Blake would go there take her student ID drop it off and they will give you the keys to your room. At that point Blake would come back to her car and she would help dad in this case. Dad's already unloading. So here we go. Great. Great. Okay. So with that that's kind of what it looks like when you actually get here. So about 30 minutes have gone by in our pretend situation here and then what we'll do is we'll pretend that Blake and her father have gotten everything up to the room and they are ready to go. So what happens next? What do I do with my car if I only got 30 minutes with it? That's a great question that we'll get to and then Blake's going to go grab her bag and we're going to talk about some things that we want you to bring them moving and some things we don't want you to bring them in. Sounds good. She asks should I bring my own dolly? Should you bring your own dolly? Absolutely yes. We do have a few that you can check out but there are limited amount for the number of students we have. So if you have a dolly or something that makes it easy for willing your stuff up absolutely that's a great question. We have some but don't count on it basically. Yes. Okay. And the configuration you're in right now of course this is the unassisted Saturday parking configuration. Is that right? This is our unassisted Saturday parking configuration. And this actually if you're checking in on Thursday, Friday or Saturday is the way we'll do it. This is pretty much a universal configuration no matter which lot you're in. We're going to have the dad jump in the car here and we're going to show you for those of you who are moving in on Monday what that process kind of looks like as far as getting your car and where to go. This would be the way you would park on Monday during assisted, right? So Monday during assisted. So can't our dad's going to back our car up and we're going to show you what a little bit of assisted on Monday would look like for. So you'll come into the parking lot exactly the same way. There'll be someone here to direct you to a parking space. The only thing that you're really going to find different. I got a ballot box there. Yeah. Is you pull into a parking spot vertically. So as you can see how it is like that, there'll be people to direct you. So don't worry. People wearing the vest. Well, people. Okay. So you're going to have a spot vertically on Monday and you'll begin unloading your items. Volunteers will be here to help you. But we do want to have size help. It's still your moving process. You'll do it. If you're the student on Monday, same thing. You'll pull up, you'll park. The parent will start unloading and you'll go to the tent and get your keys. Now the differences on Monday after your things are unloaded into a spot is you will then get back into your vehicle and then go ahead and move it to a different location. And that's probably a good thing to know. We'll talk about that process. Where does your car go after that 30 minutes is over with? Question comes in from Caitlin. Does the 30 minute move in allotment apply only to the parking lot and getting keys or the entire moving process? It is just for the parking lot and getting keys. Once your items are up in your room, you have the entire rest of the day to really kind of get settled, complete your room condition form, and we're going to talk about that a little bit. But yeah, to get settled, it's really just getting the items from the physical parking lot up to your room. You don't have to unload in the 30 minutes. Speaking of which, we were saying items you can bring and items you shouldn't bring. That's a great question. I wonder if you have some items that you have brought. I do have items that I have brought. Some props. So here in my bag, I had his name is Barry. So he came to see me off here at Move-In. But he can't come. If this were an actual real animal, cannot come with you, of course. Yes, no pets on Move-In Day. Oh, okay. There we go. Post-in. Obviously, our pets can't come inside of our residence halls. And we don't allow them. And we don't want our pets to stay in our cars where it's very hot and uncomfortable and risk that. So please, as much as you love your animals, please leave them at home on Move-In Day because they're not allowed inside of the buildings. And we don't want them to stay in a car. That's uncomfortable for them and for you. What else is in your bag, Blake? I also have in my bag my handy-dandy water bottle. It's going to be hot. It's important to stay hydrated on Move-In Day. So that's definitely something everyone should bring with them. But water bottle, we also have water fountains inside. Excellent. Now, do you drink water? Do you like Gatorade? What do you... I personally like water with a little bit of lemon in it. A little bit of lemon. Gatorade is just a little sugary for me. But if that's your thing, go for it. Gatorade is great, too. Fantastic. Don't drink energy drinks, though. Don't drink energy drinks? No energy drinks and no soda. Okay. It will drain your... Electrolytes or something? It will knock you out. Okay. What else is in your bag, Blake? All right. I've also brought my closed-toed tennis shoes. Oh, Ryan, what are you wearing now? I'm wearing your today's sandals. Okay, yeah. So open-toed shoes are not ideal for Move-In Day. You're going to be doing a lot of walking. You're going to be doing a lot of carrying, you know, heavy items up and down stairs. You can trip and hurt yourself or maybe hurt somebody else or drop something and break it if you're wearing open-toed shoes while walking around. So it's important to bring closed-toed shoes. Closed-toed shoes with good grips on the bottoms, too. Yes. I like that. We had a question come in. Well, Kami was asking again about the dollies, and we recommend that you bring dollies. We do have some available that you can check out, but there's supplies, obviously. We don't have 6,000 of them, so we'll not have one for every student. Nita says, on the OK Pet List, she saw harmless fish. That's correct. You can bring harmless fish. Tell me about the harmless fish exception. If you look in the residence hall handbook, which you can find online, it'll tell you the size of the aquarium and those type things that you can have. But yeah, harm fish are more than welcome. Excellent. All right. Well, you've shown us kind of what we should and shouldn't bring. Yeah. And then I've heard just that don't bring more than would fit in a parking space. Is that correct? That is correct. The residence hall, your room here in the residence hall is going to be a very small room. You own half of that small room, which is going to be roughly about the size of one of these parking spaces. If you can't fit it in a parking space, please do not bring it. It'll be too big, and you'll end up having to carry it back home. And no one wants to move things twice. Good rule of thumb. Thank you. A good rule of thumb, too, is, you know, you'll love your living space. It's wonderful. But they're like everything, just like your room and home. There is a fine item out of room. You know, if you're within a four or five area hour radius of campus and you're going to go back home maybe from Labor Day or on a weekend, hey, it's still hot. Bring your warm summer clothes now. And then later in the semester when you go home, you can bring those heavy winter coats and those kind of things, kind of swap that out. So that's making kind of an efficient use of your space. Absolutely. So we were talking about the process and Blake, our student, had checked in, gotten her key, and then come back out, unpacked, taken it upstairs. 30 minutes have passed. What do we do next? 30 minutes have passed. So Blake comes back down, and hopefully, and the father would be with them or whoever you bring with you on move in day. You'll go back to your car. So at this point, parents and students will kind of go two separate ways. If you are a student, you will park your car at lot 56, which is the south end of campus along MLK Drive. It's a very, very large parking lot will accommodate all students. If you are a parent, for the move in day, you'll go to one of two locations. If you're moving in on kind of the north end of campus, the Garland parking garage will have space available where you can park your car for the remainder of the day as you continue to move in. If you're on the south end of campus or the central part of campus, Humphrey, Joakum, that area, or Pomfort to the south, you'll be able to use the Harmon Avenue parking garage as your parking. There is no overnight parking for parents in those two garages, so please be aware of that. But during the course of the day, you're certainly welcome to do that again. Refer to the website movein.uark.edu. So you may be thinking, well, how do I get from the parking space back to my residence? I was just thinking that. So we will have a shuttle service available. We'll see some vans that will have university housing. Again, go to the movein.uark.edu. They'll say specifically move in courtesy shuttle. Yeah, move in courtesy shuttles will be available. If you go to the website movein.uark.edu early next week, we'll have the shuttle map route up there. So you'll know exactly where to go to meet the shuttle. And they will just kind of run 15-minute loops and drop you off. If you are in Lot 56 on Thursday and Friday and Monday for parking of those three days, the university buses system will be going. You can jump on the transit and parking bus. It will be a great way to introduce you to campus as you begin with anyway. Raise your back transit, sure. Use raise your back transit. It will bring you back up to the north end of campus or more to the central end by doing that. On Saturday, there's no transit and parking buses running. However, the university housing will provide, again, a shuttle that will run students back to the central south and to the north end of campus. So we'll take care of you. Don't worry about getting back. Some people may choose to walk. It's really not that far of a walk for the parents in particular, the parking garage. Lot 56, you probably want to use the transportation shuttle buses provided. I know a lot of parents will arrive, they'll unload stuff, and they'll want to go shopping in the community to go buy some more things and then bring it here. They would park then at the parking deck. That's a great question. You only kind of get one entry into the parking lot because we are accommodating a max number of students as we go through in order to get everybody in for move-in. So if you are already in the Walmart, Target, other locations to pick up items and bring them back, you can use the parking garages and then kind of jump on the shuttle again to come back to your room or use the transit and parking buses that are available. So lots of great options, but just kind of don't prepare to be able to come back in the lot because we are really using that next round of students for move-in. One thing I thought I'd mentioned is kind of hit me as I was thinking about this. We get a lot of questions for students who say, well, I have a resident reserve parking list. Our resident reserve parking permit, when can I park back into my lot? Monday, after we finish the move-in process in the early afternoon, mid to late afternoon at some point, we will make sure everybody is in, that everybody is checked in for the day, and then we will open those parking lots back up mid to late money afternoon for students with resident reserve parking. So if you have resident reserve parking, on Monday afternoon you will be able to actually go into your lot. And do we happen to know when they can get their first meal? Great question. We get that a lot. When can students start using their meal plan card? Saturday morning, students will be able to start using a meal plan for the first time. Your swipes in the dining hall will work. If you are part of sorority recruitment and moving in on Thursday or Friday, there is a process through sorority recruitment where you will have the ability to eat in the dining halls. You can go directly to the Greek Life site or the Greek Life office and they will tell you the process for that. But for that group, you can do that. And then Saturday, when most of our students are here, and Monday, for those of you who show up on Monday, you will be able to go right to the dining hall and begin to eat with your swipes. Fantastic. Okay. Well, I had one more question come in about actually special requests. If we don't hear back about special requests moving, what should we do? Just feel free to email us. We'll be glad to follow up with you and just say, can you tell me the status of my special request? I do ask you to be patient with those. We have a lot of those that we're trying to process right now. And our staff is working as fast as they can and also prepared for moving to get those out. So, again, if it's all possible for you to sign up for an available moving time, we'd encourage you to select your arrival time online because you can do that now. Great. Great. Well, any parting thoughts from our students or our dad or Billy? If there's any more questions, feel free to jump in and shoot us in. Yeah. Or if you see this and maybe it's after the time you have a chance to submit a question live, you can either submit a question to the Facebook thread and we'll try to check those and get back with you or you can just email us directly at housingatyork.edu and we'll respond as quickly as we can to get those back to you. Okay. A question came in from Dana. How do you check out a dolly? So, of the very few that we do have, what's the process? The volunteers or lead hogs, somebody associated with the university or the department will be using the dollies. There's no specific checkout. If you want to have your own dolly, we basically ask you to bring it. Right. Our dollies will be used by the university folks. So, certainly don't bank on it. And then comment about spots for Saturday being filled online. We'll have to kind of look at that after this particular broadcast. I'm wondering. Yeah, that's a point we do at some points get full. If you have a particular day that you're looking at that there's no spot available left for a particular hall, shoot us an email. We'll check back to it. And if the lot is not maxed out, we'll go see if we can add some more time slots to put those in. We'll get really close to maxing out our things, but we will do our best if you can come during that time to get you in a rough time that will fit for you. Like registering for a class online and it's already full, you could send an email and you might, maybe, maybe you'll get in. Yeah, we'll do our best. Yeah, we'll try to accommodate. If we can get that you and the lot and not overcrowd the lot, we will certainly work to make that happen. Excellent. Final thoughts? We're excited for you to definitely come here and hang out with us for the first year of your college experience. So just come here. Be safe. Be smart. Follow the rules. That's the most important thing. Wear clothes toad shoes and hydrate. Excellent. Okay. And, Nita, the general email is housing at uark.edu. Right. Sarah asks, are the special arrival days unassisted moving? Yes. All the special arrival days are unassisted moving. The only assisted move them day is on Monday. If you sign up for a spot on Monday, it's assisted. The other days are the unassisted work. Just as our example, when you pull into the parking space, begin to unload your things at that point. Fabian asks, can I volunteer to help new students move in? I would say yes. Absolutely. We would love that. If you are a part of the UR community, you can go to the GIP pull site through the Volunteer Action Center and sign up for a bill. We have some things that are in the parking lot physically helping in and some non-physical activities, so don't let that limit you. We're happy to have as much help as we can to welcome these new reservoirs. You can find the link to where you would sign up on the home page of movein.uark.edu. There's a little section that says, hey, we'd love to have you as a volunteer. So go there, click on that, and it'll take you to the give pulse sign up place. Thanks for asking, Fabian. Great question. And last thing, as you're going through, please, refer back to that movein.uark.edu site. You can find your arrival time there. You can find a campus map there. You can find out what to bring, what not to bring list. So lots of great information there. We encourage you to go check that out, particularly early next week, and get those maps, and we'll get you around construction and make your move in days. And those will be available Monday morning. And if you see something that you think should be on the movein site that isn't, email housing.uark.edu and let us know, because we want to be sure that site gives you the information you need. You want to wave us out? All right. We'll see you next week, guys.