{"id":3540,"date":"2026-03-18T13:54:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/?p=3540"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:54:15","slug":"commuter-application-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/commuter-application-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Commuter Application Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Local students who have grown up in the area and graduated from a local high school can either live on campus or commute from their parents\u2019 home. Students who want to live on campus should complete the \u2018New Student Housing Application.\u2019 Students who are eligible to commute from their parents\u2019 home will also find the \u2018Commuter Application\u2019 available to them online in the <a href=\"https:\/\/owu.datacenter.adirondacksolutions.com\/owu_thdss_prod\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/owu.datacenter.adirondacksolutions.com\/owu_thdss_prod\/index.cfm&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1741885898160000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0m22XLOBXNwy7O5hQD1gd_\">Res Life Portal<\/a>. Students must apply to commute from home by June 15. Applications will be reviewed and approved or denied based on our commuter eligibility criteria. You can review our residency requirements and commuter eligibility criteria on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.owu.edu\/about\/offices-services-directory\/office-of-residential-life\/residency-requirements-exemption-requests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.owu.edu\/about\/offices-services-directory\/office-of-residential-life\/residency-requirements-exemption-requests\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1741885898160000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2KDOcoKQLQGz1YDa06gGDZ\">website<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p><strong>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office:<\/strong>\u00a0Residential Life<br \/>\n<strong>Contact:<\/strong>\u00a0Brian Emerick at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:reslife@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reslife@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local students who have grown up in the area and graduated from a local high school can either live on campus or commute from their parents\u2019 home. Students who want to live on campus should complete the \u2018New Student Housing Application.\u2019 Students who are eligible to commute from their parents\u2019 home will also find the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[112,111,402,110,85,389],"class_list":["post-3540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-becoming-a-bishop-checklist","tag-application","tag-commuter","tag-commuting","tag-housing","tag-residential-life","tag-reslife"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3541,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions\/3541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}