What it's for
A house fire, a family breakdown, a lease that fell through, a roommate situation that turned unsafe — the gap between losing housing and arranging something stable. It is a bridge, not a housing assignment, and comes with a case manager working the longer-term plan.
How to reach it
During business hours, the Dean of Students Office. After hours, Campus Safety can open a room the same night and connect the student to the office the next morning — no one is told to wait until Monday.
In and around Porter Falls
Day-to-day life at Porter runs between Founders Union, the residence halls on the south quad and North Campus across the Riverfront Trail. The Porter Loop shuttle and a compact footprint mean most students can get anywhere on campus in under fifteen minutes on foot.
The practical details
Contact: Dean of Students Office, any hour through Campus Safety after hours. Length: Typically 3–7 nights. Cost: No charge for the emergency stay itself. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Dean of Students Office (Founders Union, Room 200). Call (715) 555–0182 or email deanofstudents@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.