Dining Service Meal Plans
There are a total of eleven meal plans available for students to choose from. Freshman residents are required to participate in one of the Category IA or Category I Meal Plans. Upperclassman students living in residence halls are required to participate in one of the Category I or II Meal Plans. Subscription to special program meals is required of Taylor Residential College members. Category II is the minimum requirement of all Upper class students living in University Housing, except apartments.

How Your Meal Plan Works
Use your Lehigh University ID card at specific Dining Services locations to access your meal plan. There are three components to your meal plan to provide the maximum in flexibility and convenience:

• Meal - All You Can Eat is available in three areas: University Center Cort Dining Room, Rathbone Dining Room, and Brodhead Dining Room. (Brodhead Dining Room is available to residents and guests only). All three locations offer All You Can Eat during each meal period. All Plans, including block plans are designed for one meal swipe by the lan holder per visit. Block plans however, will allow for multiple visits during the same meal period. Meal period is breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
  
  
• Dining Dollars - This declining balance account can be used exclusively at all Lehigh University Dining locations. Dining Dollars are non refundable, nontransferable, and will carry over from Fall semester to Spring semester only. (This is the only option in a Category V plan.)
  
  
• Cash Equivalency - An option based on using a food value credit from unused Student Restaurant meals in designated Retail Locations on Campus.  Some restrictions may apply depending on meal plan selection.

Category I* and II* plans function on a weekly basis and reset every Friday. Category III, IV, and V plans function on a semester basis. * The 225 and 150 block plans function on a semester basis.

Another available option is the GoldPlus account. GoldPlus can be used everywhere Dining Dollars are accepted, as well as hundreds of locations on and off campus.

What types of Meal plans are available?
We at Lehigh Dining Services offer a variety of different Meal Plan Options. We offer 11 different Meal Plans which are divided up into six different categories.. Click on The Academic Year Below to View These Meal Plans and their current pricing:

2008 - 2009 Student Meal Plan Options

2007 - 2008 Dining Guide

Faculty/Staff Meal Plans

Faculty and Staff can use their meal plans anytime during normal business hours for breakfast, lunch and dinner and brunch on Sundays!  Fore more information on meals plans for Faculty and Staff, click on the link below:

Faculty-Staff Meal Plan Brochure

Changing your Meal Plan

The following link will allow you to access instructions and the "Request to Change/Add Meal Plan" Form which should be taken to the Office of the Bursar upon completion: 

"Request to Change or Add Meal Plan" Instructions and Form

Important Info
Meal plan refunds are made in full in the event a student does not register for a specific semester and has not purchased any meals from the plan. Meal Plan refunds after the start of the semester for students who register and/or purchase meals on a board plan but withdraw from the University will receive a meal plan refund prorated on the number of unused weeks remaining on the plan. The Bursar's Office is to be notified of the withdrawal by the Dean of Students Office of Academic Support.

Meal plans may be changed within the requirements of the living area up to the 10th day of class of each semester at the Bursar's Office with charges assessed per an established prorated schedule.

Changes outside of the required meal plan or after the 10th day of class for reasons such as medical condition must petition and receive approval from Office of Student Auxiliary Services. If such changes are approved, cost adjustments will be processed on a prorated basis as of the week following the last meal purchased.

Any student suspended or expelled from the university will not be granted a meal plan refund. A student suspended may receive a prorated meal plan credit based on the week following the last meal purchased which will be used toward the purchase of a meal plan the semester immediately following the period of suspension. Such occurrences are to be documented by the Dean of Students Office of Academic Support and forwarded to the Bursar's Office or Office of Student Auxiliary Services.

For more information on Your Meal Plan and How it works please Contact the Office of Dining Services at 610-758-6179 or e-mail us at e097@lehigh.edu.