The Student Housing Advisory Committee provides students with a forum to voice opinions and ideas to the University of Toronto Mississauga Department of Student Housing & Residence Life, and serves to facilitate bi-directional communication between students and housing staff.
Purpose
Student representatives provide input and feedback on matters pertaining to housing services, programming for students, resources and departmental budget priorities. Areas of interest for which student feedback and discussion is invaluable include:
- Student needs in various communities, including undergraduate, graduate/professional, bachelor & family communities;
- Housing policies, services, student conduct structures, customer service and engagement issues;
- Budgetary priorities for the department and housing fee consultation;
Membership
Membership is composed of the following student representatives:
- One (1) Graduate Student (non-family) Representatives
- One (1) Family Representative
- Three (3) UTM Undergraduate Residence Council Executives
- Two (2) UTM First Year Residence Community Representatives
- One (1) UTM Upper Year Residence Community Representative
- One (1) Residence Life Don Representative
- One (1) Residence Education Facilitator OR LLC Program Facilitator Representative
- One (1) Residence Services Assistant Representative
Meetings
Meetings will be scheduled to occur semi-regularly based on member availability and upcoming deadlines/points of consultation. During the month of September and October, however, meetings will occur more regularly to facilitate the budgetary consultation process. If interested, you must be available to attend the following meetings. All meetings are from 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM in the OPH 2nd Floor Seminar Room.
- Thursday September 25, 2025
- Thursday October 2, 2025
- Thursday October 9, 2025
- Thursday October 16, 2025
- Thursday November 20, 2025
- Thursday, January 22, 2026
- Thursday, February 26, 2026
- Thursday, March 26, 2026
Student Representative Elections
All interested candidates are asked to submit their nomination, including a brief candidate statement (250 words or less), using this link: https://uoft.me/SHAC2025-2026 no later than September 17th, 2025 at 11:59pm. More information will be shared once you have submitted an application. Successful applicants will be expected to attend our first SHAC meeting on Thursday, September 25.
If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to Kamadchi.karunanandan@utoronto.ca.