Home Sweet Home
At the heart of it all, Avila’s four residence halls are conveniently located just steps from your classes, the dining hall, spirit store, the Eagle’s Nest, and all the action on the Zarda Multi-sports Complex fields. For first-year students especially, living on campus offers the support and resources that make your transition to college life easier.
- 61% — of first-year students live on campus
- Your choice of living arrangements
- Year-long activities planned and sponsored by the student-run Residence Hall Association
The best way to experience all that Avila has to offer.
Fall 2024-25 Housing Application is NOW OPEN! Contact your Admission Representative today to get your form!
Please note: Some students may be assigned a temporary housing assignment due to the delay in construction on Carondelet and Buchanan (formerly Ridgway) Hall. More information will be presented soon. Thank you for your understanding and patience! If you have any questions, please email us at generalresidencelife@avila.edu.
Carondelet and Ridgway Halls
These halls provides a traditional living experience with double and triple bedrooms. With adaptable furniture, you and your roommate or roommates can customize your space. Carondelet has lounges on each floor with flat-screen televisions.
Carondelet is also connected to the Hodes Center, where you can find Avila’s Counseling & Career Services, Student Access Services, Student Support Services, and Tutoring.Ridgway is connected to Dallavis Center, which houses our art classrooms, offices, and Thornhill Art Gallery.
This double offers space and comfort!
Rooms come with dressers, desks and beds.
(Fridge, TV, microwave not included)
Each dorm floor has open space for friends to gather.
Glenna Wylie Hall
Commonly known as Wylie, Glenna Wylie Hall has four, five, and six-bedroom suites. Students in these suites have a private bedroom and share a single bathroom and living space. Lounges are located on every floor with study areas and big flat-screen televisions. A common area on the first floor provides microwaves, a refrigerator, laundry facilities, and mailboxes for all residents in Wylie.
These suites provide single bedrooms.
(fridge and microwave not included)
Bedrooms come with dresser and desks.
Spacious open living space to hang with suitemates.
These suites have one bathroom for each suite to share.
Common living space on the main level provides perfect group hangouts.
Each floor also has common areas.
Jeanne Collins Thompson Hall
Commonly known as Thompson, Jeanne Collins Thompson Hall is a suite-style residence hall in which each suite contains four bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a common space with kitchenette.
Each resident has a private room within the suite.
Each suite has a kitchen area with stovetop, refrigerator and microwave.
Avila University Villa’s!
This unit features two bedrooms, accommodating up to four people, along with a spacious living room and kitchen. Please note that living room furniture and a TV are not provided.
Dining at Avila
Students who live on campus and those who don’t have access to a meal-plan. With a range of culinary options, including various ethnic cuisines, rotating through the week, there is something for everyone.
Food allergies? Dietary concerns can also be addressed with our Chef on campus. Regular vegetarian meals, and gluten free options are always available and other needs can be addressed with Chef.
For those students who are traveling internationally to Avila, Avila University aims to provide dining options that meet the needs of our diverse international student population. The cafeteria regularly offers dishes from American cuisine as well as foods commonly eaten in countries represented within the student body, such as India, Nepal and Bangladesh.
Kansas City Here We Come!
The city is your playground. And your classroom. Avila’s 50-acre campus is tucked away in a peaceful, quiet suburb, but once you’re here you’re only 15 minutes away from everything Kansas City. World-class dining and entertainment. Shopping. Cultural attractions. And internships in a city filled with innovative companies and career-making opportunities.
Contracts & Forms
The university believes in providing each student with adequate resources in order to succeed academically, developmentally, and socially. This is best accomplished through an integration of the university environment and residence on campus. Therefore, Avila requires all full-time, single freshmen and sophomores under the age of 21 to live in university residence halls if they are not residing with their parents (within a 40-mile radius of campus).
Summer 2025 Housing Contract
If you are requesting an exemption from the policy, please return the form and a response will be mailed to you to approve or disapprove your exemption request. Please note: if you are an undergraduate student or under 21 years of age, you are required to live on campus the first two years of your degree program.
Residence Hall Laundry Facilities
All Residence Halls now have new smart washers and dryers. Download the PayRange app to set up your account, load your prepaid funds, and then get notifications when your laundry cycle is complete and when washers/dryers are available — without leaving your room!
Washer: $1.75
Dryer: $1.50
Roommate Rights
Whether you are a returning student, a new student living with a friend from high school, or you are meeting your roommate for the first time, the quality of the relationship that you develop with your roommate is a major factor in determining how satisfied you are with college; this relationship can be an important influence on your academic achievement.
You have a responsibility to your roommate! By keeping in mind the following values and by demonstrating thoughtful consideration, you will make your residential living experience more satisfying. It is important to work together from the beginning to establish an environment that allows both of you respected and responsible freedom. The most critical factor in this endeavor is to be honest with one another and to communicate openly. Listed to the right are the basic rights of a roommate. Remember that with any right comes with the responsibility to ensure that your roommate is afforded an equal right.
If you feel that your rights are not being respected in your living environment, start by talking to your roommate in a calm and rational manner. Your RA is available to help you practice how you might approach your roommate about your concerns or to provide some ideas on how to begin.
Remember that Avila University does not guarantee that you will attain each of these rights at all times. However, you can help ensure that these rights will be honored through thoughtful communication and discussion with those living around you.
Remember that you are living in a community that is collectively responsible for the environment in which you live and that the only person whose behavior you are responsible for is you.
- The right to an adequate amount of sleep
- The right to study without undue interference
- The right to an adequate degree of cleanliness
- The right to expect that a roommate will respect personal belongings
- The right to entertain friends with the expectation that guests are to respect the rights of all residents, including your roommate
- The right to personal time
The right to speak your mind openly and honestly - The right to be listened to
- The right to privacy
- The right to the settlement of conflicts
- The right to be free from fear of intimidation and physical and emotional harm
- The right to live in a secure environment
Packing for College
We know things get hectic as you prepare for your journey to college so we’ve compiled a list of items that students have found helpful to bring:
Necessary Items
Towels / Washcloths
Shampoo/Conditioner/Soap
Hand Soap
Clothes Hangers
Laundry Basket / Hamper
Mask, cleaning and laundry supplies
Pillow(s)
X-Long Twin-size Bedding
Dishes: Plates/Cups/Silverware
Storage Containers
First Aid Kit & Medicines
Extension Cords / Power Strip with a surge protector
Can opener
*Possible Shared Items
Small Refrigerator
Television
DVD Player
Game Console
Vacuum
Radio
*Talk with your roommate if you don’t want to double up on these
Fun Items
Plants
Coffee Pot
Throw Rugs
Extra Furniture / Futon
Posters
Pictures
Wipe/Erase Board
Curtains
Storage boxes
Tips on how to pack for college:
Don’t overpack. You will probably buy things after you arrive at college when you know more about what your room looks like and how much space you have. You and your roommates may also come up with different ideas on how to arrange and decorate your room once you see what others have brought.
Use your laundry basket as a box for your smaller things to make it easier to carry.
Pack more things into storage containers instead of garbage bags; you could use the containers as extra storage for your room for things that you won’t use as often.
Special Note: Residence hall fires may occur due to poor wiring on appliances and overloaded extension cords inside individual rooms. For this reason, extension cords with built-in circuit breakers are strongly recommended. Extension cords may not run under carpets or be looped over curtains or bed spreads.
Items not allowed in the residence halls for safety and wellness reasons:
- Candles and incense (or anything with an open flame)
- Pets (fish are acceptable)
- Toasters, hot plates, electric frying pans, indoor grills (this includes the George Foreman style grills), deep fryers
- Ceiling fans
- Space heaters
- Halogen lamps
- Firearms or martial arts weapons (or anything that resembles them)
- Hazardous materials
- Alcohol/controlled substance, applicable signs and other paraphernalia