What you told us from the Residence End-of-year Feedback Survey! | Renison Student Experience and Housing

Thank you to the amazing 102 residents who completed our 2025/2026 end-of-year residence feedback survey! Your feedback makes a significant difference as we continue to build a welcoming, inclusive, and quality experience for all residents who call our community home.

We heard you loud and clear! Your feedback helps us every year as we continue to improve our student community. Some great things you shared with us:

82 %

of residents love the quality of our social spaces at Renison (35% very satisfied, 47% satisfied, 11% are neutral)

87 %

of residents are satisfied/very satisfied with their overall Renison experience (25% very satisfied, 62% satisfied, 7% are neutral)

78 %

of residents surveyed felt their Dons were always/most of the time available (17% said they never needed their Dons help to begin with!)

Here what takes the top spots for most praised points around Renison from surveyed residents who ranked these amenities as satisfied, very satisfied, or no opinion...

🫎 Moose Tracks and its services: 94%
🧹 Residence Cleanliness: 91%
📖 Lusi Wong Library and its services: 87%
🍪 Ministry Centre and its services: 83%

Thanks for the great feedback! Areas we want to continue to strengthen in the future include...

Wifi Connectivity: 82%
- You told us that you Your Student Experience and Housing team will work with Renison IST this Spring 2026 to assess what spaces are considered more active dead zones in residence so we can address this. 📶
Food in the Cafeteria: 76%
- In the survey, you provided awesome ideas for us to bring even more variety to our menu, including providing more variety of protein options for our vegetarian meals, more Asian food options, different varieties of veggies, and more interactive food stations! Plus, more mac and cheese! 🍝😋
Quality of Washroom Conditions on Residence Floors: 74%
- Renison's Senior Leadership Team has approved a multi-year plan to completely renovate our shared washroom facilities on our residence floors! Beginning May 1, construction will begin on renovating our Treetop and Down Under residence floor washrooms first - woohoo! 🥳

Thank you!

Thank you everyone for taking the time to share your feedback. We were so excited to see that 35% of respondents said they have attended 9+ events at Renison, followed by another 17% who have been to 4-8 events. Wow! We are happy to hear how engaged you have been in the community, and we hope you have made many happy memories during your time at Waterloo this year.

Congratulations to our winner...

An incentive to complete the survey was a draw for $150 WatCard FlexDollars. Congratulations to this year's prize winner... *drumroll* 🥁... Muxian L! Congratulations, Muxian!