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Finn, Jane; Utting, Allison – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2017
The Inclusion House is a unique dorm in Holland, Michigan, where nondisabled students, studying to be leaders in the faith community as future pastors, live side-by-side same-aged individuals with intellectual disabilities. After one year, a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews was conducted with the nondisabled roommates. Findings…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Clergy, Intellectual Disability, Leaders
Salminen, Erik; Gregory, Dennis E. – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2018
The results of recent cases indicate that residences and dormitories owned by higher education institutions should be considered "dwellings," and thus subject to the Fair Housing Act. The Fair Housing Act (1968) as amended requires that the providers of dwellings accommodate assistance animals, which includes not only service animals,…
Descriptors: Animals, Therapy, Dormitories, College Housing
Katz, Philip M. – Council of Independent Colleges, 2015
Living-learning communities combine curricular, co-curricular, and residential components of college life. They are a relatively new variation on the residential education that has been part of the undergraduate experience at America's independent colleges and universities for centuries. Research suggests that living-learning communities have a…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Universities, College Students, Communities of Practice
Maltby, Jennifer L.; Brooks, Christopher; Horton, Marjorie; Morgan, Helen – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2016
Science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) degrees provide opportunities for economic mobility. Yet women, underrepresented minority (URM), and first-generation college students remain disproportionately underrepresented in STEM fields. This study examined the effectiveness of a living-learning community (LLC) for URM and first-generation…
Descriptors: Females, Sciences, STEM Education, Disproportionate Representation
Willoughby, Brian J.; Carroll, Jason S.; Marshall, William J.; Clark, Caitlin – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2009
Many universities have changed their policies regarding the nature of on-campus housing--shifting from gender-specific to coed dorms. This study examines the scope of that transition in the United States. From a sampling of 100 universities in the United States, including the nation's 50 largest universities, it was found that the vast majority of…
Descriptors: Campuses, Universities, College Housing, Educational Policy
Baumann, James A., Ed. – Association of College and University Housing Officers - International, 2010
The "Talking Stick" is published bimonthly, six times a year in January/February, March/April, May/June, July/August, September/October, and November/December by the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International. Each issue is divided into three sections: Features, Columns, and Departments. These sections contain…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, College Housing, Dormitories, Legal Responsibility
LANE, HARLAN L.; TAYLOR, JOHN H. – 1965
A CONFERENCE WAS HELD DEALING WITH RESEARCH ON THE SIGNIFICANT PROBLEMS IN DORMITORY LIFE. THE OBJECTIVES WERE TO INFORM, DEFINE, MOTIVATE, AND EVALUATE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND PROBLEMS IN RESIDENCE HALLS EXPERIENCE. IT WAS FELT THAT ONE OF THE BARRIERS TO THE DESIRED RESEARCH ON THE PART OF STUDENT PERSONNEL OFFICERS WAS A LACK OF BOTH…
Descriptors: Conferences, Dormitories, Evaluation, Housing
Inkelas, Karen Kurotsuchi; Zeller, William J.; Murphy, Rena K.; Hummel, Mary L. – About Campus, 2006
The variety of problems identified with undergraduate education at large research universities may best be summed up by a disquieting portrait provided by the Boyer Commission. In its 1998 report, called "Reinventing Undergraduate Education", the commission described thousands of undergraduates receiving instruction from novice teaching…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Students, Research Universities, Schools
Zeller, William J., Ed. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2008
Residence life programs play a key role in recruiting students, helping them make a successful transition to a new institution, and in retaining them, whether students are enrolling for the first time, transferring from another institution, or entering graduate school. Chapters in this book address theories of learning and development, new…
Descriptors: College Housing, Dormitories, Student Adjustment, College Freshmen