Are you hosting an event on campus?
Please
contact us and let us know about any events that you are hosting on campus. This will help us to better serve your guests as well as the rest of the campus community. If the event involves busing people to campus and the buses will be staying until the event concludes, then we ask that the buses park in Lot 9 (behind the Fieldhouse on Vine St.) or Lot 54 (behind the Chapel and abutting Route 8).
General Event Information
Special Event revenue indirectly helps to keep student tuition and fees lower. The revenue collected by Parking Services is used to maintain, renovate and repair the many parking areas on campus. Without this source of revenue, student tuition and fees would be higher.
Due to the limited amount of property for parking on campus our parking lots must be MULTI-PURPOSE. Parking Services is responsible for directing students, faculty and staff and other visitors to alternative parking areas as close as possible to these reserved lots. Parking Services is responsible for posting the lots to be reserved for an event a minimum of three (3) days in advance of the event. Wherever possible, based on the expected attendance for an event, Parking Services will allow students, faculty and staff to park in these reserved lots.
Since the University is a state and public institution, and therefore, supported by the taxpayers, the University also has an obligation to the "community". While providing a good education to students (customers) is the main priority of the University, there is also an obligation to provide good community relations to the taxpaying public. The community helps support the University with monetary donations, pledges and gifts which, in turn, help to keep down the cost of student tuition and fees.
Basketball Games
On University of Akron basketball game nights ALL lots SOUTH of Buchtel Avenue and EAST of Union Street are NOT monitored for permits by Parking Services and the University Police. These include lots 1,4,5,9,10,13, and 15.
For Men's weeknight games Lots 2 and 8 will be controlled by Parking Services after 3:00 PM. We ask that all vehicles be removed from these lots by 5:00 PM. Any vehicles left in Lot 2 after 5:00 PM are subject to towing at the owner's expense. For weekend Men's games these lots will be similarly controlled, with the exception that Lot 2 will be closed the previous evening.
Zips team schedules are available online.
E.J. Thomas Events
Information about events at
E. J. Thomas Hall is available online.
Akron Aeros Games
The Polsky Deck (Lot 49) and Lot 66 will be used for parking for Aeros patrons on a controlled basis. On certain dates, such as exam weeks, no Aeros patrons will be permitted to use these lots.
All valid Student and Faculty/Staff UA parking permits including temporary permits for the specific date, will be honored FREE in these lots. Commercial Visitor permits will NOT be allowed for free parking.
The
Akron Aeros schedule is available online.
