{"id":217364,"date":"2025-12-08T14:01:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/?p=217364"},"modified":"2025-12-15T09:55:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:55:02","slug":"important-end-of-semester-winter-break-dining-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/2025\/12\/08\/important-end-of-semester-winter-break-dining-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Important End-of-Semester &amp; Winter Break Dining Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The end of the semester is approaching quickly and winter break will be here soon!<\/p>\n<p>For students on <strong>block meal plans<\/strong>, please remember that <strong>unused blocks do NOT carry over<\/strong> to the spring semester, <strong>are not refundable<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>cannot be used over winter break<\/strong>. If you have remaining blocks, please be sure to use them before midday of Thursday, December 18.<\/p>\n<p>Flex<strong> Dollars<\/strong>, however, <em>WILL<\/em> automatically roll over and remain active for your use over the winter break and the spring months as you remain an active student (registered for spring classes).<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Before You Leave for Break <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>If you want to change your meal plan for the spring semester, <strong>now is the time to do it.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/dining-services\/meal-plan-information\/meal-plan-enrollment-and-changes\/\"><strong>Submit Your Request!<\/strong><\/a> Making your changes now ensures your tuition bill reflects the correct plan and cost. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/dining-services\/meal-plan-information\/meal-plan-enrollment-and-changes\/\"><\/a><strong>All meal plan changes must be submitted by January 26, 2026, to avoid penalties.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Winter Break Meal Plan Information<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Montclair Campus &amp;\u00a0 Bloomfield Campus Housing (Village\/Hawk Crossing Exempt)<br \/>\n<\/strong>Students accessing their on-campus housing (traditional residential locations) <strong>at any point<\/strong> between <strong>Thursday, December 18, 2025 and Wednesday, January 14, 2026<\/strong>, will see a $250.00 charge placed on their tuition bill and will receive $250.00 in Flex dollars on their ID card for their use on campus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Village\/Hawk Crossing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Students living in the Village or Hawk Crossing who wish to add Flex dollars for the winter break period, may do so through the <strong>UStore<\/strong> by <strong>December 23, 2025<\/strong>. This ensures funds are added before break.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/whats-open\/\"><strong>View Up-to-Date Hours of Operation!<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Please Note:<\/strong> Dining Services office will be closed <strong>Thursday, <\/strong><strong>December <\/strong><strong>25 \u2013 Thursday, January 1<\/strong>\u00a0and emails will not be monitored during this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use Your Remaining Meal Plan Blocks, Update Your Meal Plan, Winter Break Meal Plan Information&#8230;more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":217397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,35,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deadlines","category-dining","category-featured-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217365,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217364\/revisions\/217365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}