Off Campus and Commuter Students

About Student Experience

The Student Experience team provides valuable resources for off-campus living, commuter students, and family members. We provide support for exploring off-campus housing options, a mentoring program for first-time commuter students, resources for parents and families, and programs designed to help you stay connected, get involved, and make the most of your WCU experience - wherever you live.

Services

• Hosts a free off-campus housing website available to all WCU students as an effective method of finding available off-campus housing and roommates.
• Offers off-campus and commuter students resources and information for living off-campus, transportation, and parking.
• Oversees free student legal aid, providing consultation on a variety of civil and criminal issues - landlord/tenant, leases, citations, etc. This is offered by appointment, and a consultation is expected to last 15 minutes.

This office is coordinated by a team of professional staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students and is located in Sykes Student Union room 238. Please contact the Student Experience team at StudentXP@wcupa.edu. 

Students who choose to live in the Borough of West Chester and the surrounding communities must secure their own living accommodations. OCCS partners with Off Campus Partners to provide off campus housing solutions and will provide information and support to students who are searching for off campus housing opportunities. Additional information about living off campus can be found on the web at www.wcupa.edu/occs/. If you are interested in renting off campus in the Borough of West Chester or the Township of West Goshen, please note that it has student-zoned housing -- "a living arrangement for at least two students to a maximum of four students who are unrelated by blood, marriage or legal adoption" -- and considers the definition of a student as the following: "an individual who is enrolled or has made application and been accepted at a university, college, or trade school and is taking at least 6 credit hours and whose primary occupation is as a student or who is on a semester or summer break from studies at a university, college, or trade school." This applies to undergraduate and graduate students.