Commencement: Residential Checkout 

Residence Hall and On-Campus Residents Checkout

Information detailing checkout procedures will be sent to all students living on campus from the Division of Student Life. Please read and follow the instructions carefully.

Deadline for January Graduates

January graduates must vacate the residence halls by 12:00 pm on Wednesday, December 19. January graduates living in the Underwood Apartments, the Courtyard Townhouses, Ross House, Larsen House and the Prospect Hill Apartments must vacate their residences by 12:00 pm on Saturday, December 22. Students living on campus must schedule a check-out appointment with the Resident Assistant (RA) or House Manager, vacate the room, and return their keys by the designated time. Please see Returning Keys regarding where and how to return your residence keys.

Graduating residential students holding Private Mailboxes (PMBs) must go to the Mail & Copy Center at Rothwell Center to terminate their PMB rental and/or elect another mail service option. The Mail & Copy Center provides a mail forwarding service at a cost of $25.00 per month, plus a deposit for postage and packing materials. Under this service, mail will be forwarded to another address twice a month. The Mail & Copy Center will forward mail for a maximum of six months. Please go to the Mail & Copy Center and complete a Re-Mail Form. PMB holders that are not returning to Mills must select "permanent" rather than "temporary" forwarding on the form.

Mail for PMB holders that have not terminated their PMB rental or elected another mail service option, will be returned as undeliverable.

Deadline for May Graduates

The residence hall checkout deadline for graduating students is 12:00 pm on Sunday, May 19. Students living on campus must schedule a checkout appointment with the Resident Assistant (RA) or House Manager, vacate the room, and return their keys by the designated time. Please see Returning Keys regarding where and how to return your residence keys.

Graduating residential students holding Private Mailboxes (PMBs) must go to the Mail & Copy Center at Rothwell Center to terminate their PMB rental and/or elect another mail service option. The Mail & Copy Center provides a mail forwarding service at a cost of $25.00 per month, plus a deposit for postage and packing materials. Under this service, mail will be forwarded to another address twice a month. The Mail & Copy Center will forward mail for a maximum of six months. Please go to the Mail & Copy Center and complete a Re-Mail Form. PMB holders that are not returning to Mills must select "permanent" rather than "temporary" forwarding on the form.

Mail for PMB holders that have not terminated their PMB rental or elected another mail service option, will be returned as undeliverable.

Mobile Storage Units

Drop-Off Sites for Mobile Storage Containers:

Ethel Moore/Mary Morse:
Past EM Up the Road, Off to Left Side of Road,
by the Dumpsters and the Gate to the Courtyard

Prospect Hill/Courtyard Townhouses/Underwood Apartments:
Parking Stalls Out Front
(must be confined to ONE parking stall)

Orchard Meadow/Warren Olney:
Back Parking Lot by Courtyard
(turn Left at Orchard Meadow, follow road until it
turns to the Right, confine unit to one stall)
NO UNITS MAY BE DROPPED OFF IN FRONT OF OLNEY!

Ege/Larsen House/Ross House:
Larsen House Parking Lot
(must be confined to ONE parking stall)

Regulations for Mobile Storage Containers:
Delivery Times:
Delivery Companies may ONLY deliver Storage Containers between the hours of 9:00 am and 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday.
Delivery Companies attempting to deliver at other times will be turned away.

Delivery Procedure:
Delivery Companies must have a Public Safety escort to the Drop-Off Site.
See above for Drop-Off Sites.

Unit Pick-Up:
Delivery Companies may ONLY pick up Storage Containers between the hours of 9:00 am and 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday. Units must be picked up within three business days of delivery. Storage Containers must be picked up by Delivery Companies before 5:00 pm on Monday, December 24, for the fall, and on Monday, May 20, for the spring.
NO UNITS MAY BE PICKED UP ON SATURDAY, MAY 18!

Returning Keys 

You must return any Mills College keys in your possession in order to clear your student account. Please carefully read the key return instructions below. Do not leave keys at the front Gate House, in your room, or anywhere other than the locations indicated below!

If you are doing a move-out walk-thru with your RA or House Manager you will return your residential key(s) at the end of the walk-thru and will be given a receipt. If you opt to do Express Check-Out you will return your key to the HMDS Office or in the HMDS Key Drop-Off Box, after taping an Express Check-Out Card to your door. Please see here for details on the move-out process.

Non-residential keys, and residential keys not returned during a move-out walk-thru, should be returned to the HMDS Office in Sage Hall 138 so that you can obtain a receipt. If you need to return keys while the HMDS office is closed (at any other time than between 8:30 am and 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday), please get a key envelope from your RA, your House Manager, or the HMDS Office. Write your name, your Mills ID number, and a list of the enclosed keys on the envelope, seal the envelope securely, and drop it, with your keys enclosed, into the HMDS Key Drop-off Box.

The drop box is located outside of Sage Hall at the left-hand entrance to the building.

Important: Fines for keys not returned will be charged to your student account and you will be billed. Your account will be placed on hold and you will not be able to obtain transcripts until your account is paid in full and/or the keys are returned. If lock changes are performed additional charges will be assessed; all charges for keys to locks that have been changed are non-reversible.