The Office of Admissions has a Facebook App for any student who is thinking about attending Missouri State or who is already admitted to Missouri State.  It’s easy to add the App to your Facebook account:

1. Sign into your Facebook account
2. Search for the App.  In the search box type missouri state future students app
3. Sign up!

 It will look something like this… 

Once you are signed up, you will be able to interact with other people looking to come to Missouri State or who are already here!  You will also receive information on upcoming events and exciting times ahead at Missouri State….and various faculty, staff and students currently at Missouri State will pop in from time to time to add new content to the Community or just hang out and answer your questions or concerns!

Speaking of questions and concerns, the Res Life Department will now be able to answer any questions you may have about living on-campus for a future semester!

What are you waiting for…sign up now!!

Missouri State Dining Services (MSDS) in conjunction with Chartwells is our new dining services provider.  They arrived on campus in May and they have been working long and hard to get everything ready for today’s first day.  You will see a new varied menu at the dining centers and some new faces mixed in with some familiar faces from last year. MSDS will be holding forums early this semester to see what kind of meal plans and food options we should be offering in the future.  Keep your eyes open, because we will want input from our current on-campus residents as well as commuters, faculty and staff to determine which way MSDS should head in the future.

The new year also brings new vendors over at the Union. Stop by the second floor of the Student Union and check out the new guys on the block! … Chic-fil-A Express, Smashers, Papa John’s and Subway.  We still have a taste or two from last year with Freshens and Wok and Roll still on the floor. Down on the first floor you can get your caffeine fix at Bear Beans, serving up hot Starbucks coffee. As it stand now, a real Starbucks store will be down there by the end of October.

Renovations … where to start?  Wow, were we busy over the summer, spending over $200,000 a day to upgrade and refresh a lot of buildings!  The list is too extensive to post here, so head over to http://reslife.missouristate.edu/fac/Renovations.htm and check things out!  We would encourage you to check out other buildings on-campus to see what’s new.  While you are looking around, start planning on where you want to live for the 2012-13 academic year. Current students get to select their rooms before the incoming students for Fall 2012….reapplication will be here before you know it!

Involvement:  It won’t be long until the call for people to join their building’s Hall Council and RHA will be the talk of the campus.  Make sure to get involved and lend a helping hand to some of the best organizations on-campus!

These are just some of the highlights for the first day of classes.  There will be lots of exciting opportunities and news to share as Fall 2011 keeps moving forward.  Keep checking back here from time to time or subscribe to our feed. You never know when something exciting will be happening in the residence halls!

There are a lot of activities planned out for the residents to enjoy this week. For a full listing of the events go to: http://www.missouristate.edu/studentengagement/114821.htm Both the Garst and Blair-Shannon Dining Centers are open this weekend so residents can start eating anytime!  The new food vendors in the Plaster Student Union are opening this weekend as well.  For more information on the vendors in the Union, please go to: http://www.dineoncampus.com/missouristate/show.cfm?cmd=_diningBlog&blogID=510 You can feel free to use your BearFare at these locations or you can always use cash at these vendors.

Living on a floor focused on success
Enjoy interacting with Faculty Fellows outside of a typical classroom setting
Attending special events with University administrators and other faculty members

If you are looking for a good opportunity for the 2012-13 academic year, then you should check out living on an LLC floor.  You can find more information about LLCs at: http://reslife.missouristate.edu/LLCmain.htm

It’s an exciting time to be at Missouri State!

We are spending over $7 million dollars this summer to renovate our halls!

–go here for more details!

We are seeing the new Student Rec Center take shape daily!

–go here for details on how you can enjoy this 100, 00 square foot facility!

We are starting a new era of men’s NCAA Division I Basketball

–go here to see more about Coach Lusk!

We want to make sure you have reserved your space To Be Here Now!!

Visit my.missouristate.edu to secure your place to live during these exciting times at Missouri State!

Below you will see the PAR schedule in case you have misplaced your date.  The first group that gets to go Monday is anyone with a priority date before September 1, 2009.  Your priority date is your admission date to the University…UNLESS you failed to submit your contract to our office by the deadline we gave you.  Everyone was given three (3) weeks to go online and complete their contract for the 10-11 academic year.  If you didn’t submit your contract within that 3 week window we gave you, your priority date became the date we received your contract in our office. 

GOOD EXAMPLE:  If you were admitted September 1, you were mailed a contract packet within 3 days of being admitted.  You were given the deadline of September 15 to finish the contract process online.  If you did everything before September 15, you did GREAT!  September 1 would be your priority date.

BAD EXAMPLE:  If you were admitted September 1, you were mailed a contract packet within 3 days of being admitted.  You were given the deadline of September 15 to finish the contract process online.  For some reason you decided to flake out and didn’t finish your stuff online before September 15…….Tsk, tsk, tsk!  You decided to finish up everything online on October 1.  Now October 1 is your priority date!  What a difference a month makes! There can be a lot of people going online and going through the PAR process in a month!

Here’s the PAR Schedule:

We will be going through the PAR process as long as space permits!

1. Go to MyMissouriState and then Profile and then on the right hand side find Reapplication Steps
2. Complete your contract
3. The next day go back to MyMissouriState and Pick A Room

That’s it…3 little steps and you will have a space reserved for you for August 20, 2010! We would encourage you to Pick A Room before March 22, 2010. On March 22, we will be allowing our incoming students for the fall 2010 semester to start the Pick A Room process. Once they start assigning themselves the spaces will go quickly!

If you have already reapplied for next year…thank you! If you have decided you want to switch to another room already, follow these steps to Request A Room Change:

1. Go to MyMissouriState and then Profile and then on the right hand side find For Assigned Students
2. Click on Residential Management System (RMS) link
3. Select Room Change Request on the left hand-side and following the instructions

It’s pretty easy to ask for a room change now!

If you should have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact your RA, Assistant Hall Director, Hall Director, your building’s front desk or the main office for all the answers!!

The football Bears are looking to end their regular season this weekend with a WIN over SIU at Edwardsville, Illinois.  They are hoping for a big win on the road and have their eyes focused on the ball!  The men’s and women’s basketball teams are just now starting to gear up for their seasons with home openers looming this weekend.  The volleyball team is hoping to pack the House this  weekend during its last stretch of home games….and let’s not forget about men’s soccer!  The men’s soccer team clinched the Missouri Valley Conference championship earlier this month ending up 12-3-2!  This weekend they will be in Des Moines playing at the MVC tournmament!  As you can tell Missouri Valley Conference Athletics is exciting!!

Well there’s a lot going on in athletics, but is that all?  NO!! This month is Native American Heritage Month at the University with different events planned all month.  The library has two exciting visiting displays:  Mapping Missouri: Maps from the Collection of the Missouri State Archives and Ozark Light: The Photographs of Charles Elliott Gill.  Our Student Government Association will be having a Town Forum tomorrow night to get student input into various topics affecting them and the University.  On Friday the Theatre and Dance Department will be  conducting auditions for the BFA Acting and BFA Musical Theatre Programs.

These are just a few of the events going on this week.  As you can tell, it’s never a dull moment around here!!  Why don’t you consider the advantages to Be Here Now!

The Resident Assistants (RAs) on each floor is always thinking up bright and creative ways of helping their resident have fun. Each Hall Council has people that are sitting around each week in meetings coming up with the next educational or social event for the residents of their building. The Residence Hall Assocaition or RHA is comprised of leaders from each residence hall. One of it’s main goals each semester is to make sure all of the residents are enjoying their stay on-campus and providing award winning programs and events for everyone. Todd Euglow talked to us earlier about RHA. Go back and review what he said earlier in the year….

This is just the opportunities in the residence halls! There are many more opportunities across the campus! The Student Activities Council or SAC is always bringing movies, comedians, speakers and much much more to campus. The Student Government Association or SGA is the official voice of all students at Missouri State and they are always looking for people to help out! If you enjoyed planning the Prom and other social events in high school, then SAC is for you. On the other hand, if you enjoyed Student Council in high school, then SGA is the group for you!

There are over 250 different organizations on-campus….there has to be something for you! If not, you can create your own group with yourself and a handful of other people!

You will enjoy being on campus….just don’t let me hear you say there is nothing to do around here!

1). There are several terms during the summer. You can go for a 8-week session, a 4-week session or a 5-week session. This offers a great variety of schedules. In the 4- and 5-weeks sessions, you are in class for a longer period of time than you would a regular 16-week semester. This can be good and bad!

2). Less people. I haven’t heard the numbers for the summer session yet, but usually there will be only 5,000 or so students on-campus during the summer. This is much smaller than normal and it makes the “feel” of campus different.

3). Camps and Conferences are here! You may have stayed on-campus when you were younger attending a basketball or volleyball or computer camp here on campus. Well they are in full swing here already! We are expecting over 31,000 people staying with us this summer for a camp or conference! This makes things look different on-campus as we don’t usually have a lot of young kids on-campus.

There’s still plenty of time if you want to join us this summer! It’s a good time to get acclaimated to the campus!