Places4Students.com partners with UMaine to provide off-campus housing service

UMaine Alert

Posted: April 19, 2024 - 1:32 PM

At approximately 9:24 a.m. on Friday, April 19, a University of Maine graduate student was struck by a university vehicle on Long Road at the University of Maine campus in Orono. The student reports that they are at a local hospital with minor injuries.

Emergency services, including the Orono Fire Department, University Volunteer Ambulance Corps, University of Maine Police Department, Orono Police Department and Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene.

The university vehicle involved in the incident was a Chevrolet Express van. It was being operated by a university employee.

Counseling services and support are available for students, faculty or staff who may have been affected. The Counseling Center can be reached at 207-581-1392 and the Dean of Students Office can be reached at 207-581-1406.

The scene has been cleared and Long Road is now accessible. An investigation is being conducted by the University of Maine Police Department with assistance from the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office Crash Reconstruction Unit. Any witnesses to the incident are encouraged to contact Lt. Noel Santiago at noel.santiago@maine.edu.

April 13, 2018 Student Life

The University of Maine has partnered with Places4Students.com to provide a new and enhanced resource for students and community members looking for off-campus housing.

Places4Students is a company that creates connections between academic institutions and students seeking off-campus housing, and provides a website and an app where landlords and property managers can exhibit properties directly to students. UMaine’s prior off-campus housing listing database expired in January 2018 and had been in place for more than 10 years.

The new service is more user-friendly than the old version, and adds ways for students to search for sublease and roommate listings as well as rental listings. It is free and available for UMaine students, faculty, staff and community members. Registration is not required to search listings, but students can register to post listings for subleases or roommates.

For more information, contact Places4Students at 866.766.0767, admin@p4s.com.