RPS adopts new term breakage policy, fees

Residential Programs and Services has announced several changes to its housing contract for the 2012-13 school year for students who choose to break the contract so that they can participate in certain academic programs or because they have made plans to graduate at the semester’s end.

“Currently, if a student leaves at the end of the fall semester for an academic reason such as student teaching, overseas study or because they graduate, no breakage penalty is assessed,” RPS Executive Director Patrick Connor said in an RPS announcement on its website.

Now, students will incur financial penalties when they cancel on or after their contract date because of their participation in an IU-sponsored academic program. The fees, generally, will be lower with an earlier notification of cancellation.

When students break terms within the contract, the vacated space, in theory, must be filled.

In the past, they have been forced to turn students away, Connor said.