Shafer Hall 

Part of the Governors Quad, Shafer Hall is an eight-story building located adjacent to Lawrence and Scranton Halls near IUP’s George P. Miller Stadium.  Over 400 men and women make Shafer Hall their home during the academic year with men housed on the first, third and fifth floors and women on the remaining floors. 

Shafer Hall offers a non-smoking living environment.  Residents and their guests are not permitted to smoke in public or common areas.  The third and fourth floor are home to an Education Specialty Living Option.  Other amenities in the building include a game room, laundry room, kitchenette, vending machines, and an air-conditioned recreation room with a large screen television and a  Residential Computer Center.  IUP cable television Service, local telephone service, and internet access are available in each room.  Students must provide their own televisions, telephones, and/or computers.  Since Shafer Hall is locked 24 hours a day, residents gain access via their student I-card.

Although some rooms vary in size, most even-numbered rooms are 16’1” x 12’0” (180.6 square feet) with a window measuring 3’10” x 5’4” (w x h), while odd-numbered rooms are 15’11” x 11’10” (180.6 square feet) with a window measuring 4’8” x 5’4”.  The walls are plaster and are slightly over eight feet.  Two person rooms are equipped with two dressers, wardrobes, desks, desk chairs, bunk-able beds, two trash cans (one for recyclables and the other for regular trash), and shelves above the desks.  The window has a pull-down shade and a curtain rod that requires drapery hooks to attach curtains; curtains are not provided.  All furniture can be moved within the room.  The standard bunk bed arrangement is 19” from the floor to the top of the lower mattress and 57” from the floor to the top of the upper mattress; this arrangement allows approximately eight inches of clearance under the lower mattress.  Lighting is provided via fluorescent lamps located above the desks and overhead on the ceiling. 

Residents are encouraged to decorate their rooms; however, university-owned furniture cannot be removed from the room.  Pictures and posters can be hung using poster putty only.  Nails, bolts, tacks, glue, or other adhesives cannot be used to affix materials to the walls.  Requests for painting must be approved in advance by the Residence Director.   Students may NOT return prior to the official opening of the residence hall to paint their rooms.

Tour Shafer Hall

For additional information, please contact the Office of Housing and Residence Life at 724-357-2697 or E-mail IUP-OHRL@iup.edu.