One requirement on Southeastern’s campus is that all vehicles must be registered through the parking office. Visitors must also register their vehicle for a temporary or visitor’s permit. 

With this in mind, it is important to know the policies and procedures for parking. Students, faculty and staff who have registered and certified their vehicle online have signed an acknowledgment that they have read the parking rules and regulations. 

“When students get here, they are not aware of our parking rules and regulations which they are have supposed to have read when they registered their vehicle online and certified their vehicle online,” said parking office staff business manager Cora Von Aspern. “When they certify their car, they are signing that they have read the parking regulations and rules. In those regulations, it will tell you what you can’t do on campus.”

The parking office is located on campus to help students adjust to parking at the university. 

“If you have a question, do not ask a fellow student or faculty,” said Aspern. “You need to call our office because a lot of the information that gets out there is someone’s rendition of the original rules and regulations and they get the wrong information and end up getting a citation. If they do have an issue, they need to call us or come to our office. We are here to help. We are here to try to help them adjust to campus parking.”

Some parking rules that students may not be aware of that must be followed on Southeastern’s campus are rules like parking backwards. According to Aspern, this is the most common rule and regulation broken on campus. 

“It’s common in other areas but it isn’t allowed in our parking because we are a commuter campus and backing out, you tend to go a lot slower rather than parking forward where you can just take off,” said Aspern. 

Students should also be aware that parking and regulations rules do not only apply when driving a vehicle. Walking on campus also has policies and procedures that need to be followed. 

“We have a few issues with students not using the crosswalks and using their phones and stepping off the curves,” said Aspern. “The safety of all our students, faculty and staff is something we try to maintain. That is why we have rules and regulations and why we enforce them.”

For complete information about the parking rules and regulations for the university’s campus, visit the University Parking Operations webpage found on the university website.