Used meta-analysis to integrate and summarize the empirical research from 1966 through 1987 regarding the influence of college residence halls on the academic performance of undergraduate students in the United States. Found research did not show living in a conventional residence hall significantly influenced academic performance over living at…

Attempted to analyze resident assistant (RA) performance using four years of comparable evaluation data and appropriate statistical technique to determine if RA training courses are effective. Results from evaluations of 206 RAs failed to support hypothesis that those who received training would be more effective RAs than those who did not receive…

Multicampus study examined transformational and transactional leadership factors of hall directors (n=84) and resident assistants (n=806). Results indicated both male and female hall directors practiced transformational leadership behaviors. Hall director leadership behavior accounted for two-thirds of the variance in resident assistant…

College students who live on campus are often assigned a roommate whom they do not know and are expected to live with that person in intimate quarters. This study was conducted to examine the process of relationship development in 13 pairs of college freshwomen roommates. For 8 weeks each semester of their freshman year, roommates independently…

Attention within counseling psychology has broadened in the last decade to include the larger community within which an individual exists. Measures of the eight elements of community identification by Roberts (1980) were administered to students on two residence hall floors. The group on one floor served as an experimental group and explored in…

Examined relationship between student residence (on-campus university housing, on-campus fraternity/sorority housing, off-campus nonuniversity housing) and alcohol use by investigating how drinking patterns and irresponsible acts related to drinking vary with gender and with housing arrangement. Results from 1,097 college students revealed that…

Students' drinking, gender stereotypes, and alcohol expectancies were examined in relation to three living arrangements: living either at home, on-campus, or independently. The results highlight the importance of gender stereotypes and living arrangements as influences on drinking behavior and sex differences within the student population. (EMK)

This paper focuses on one aspect of the attempt of higher education to meet learning needs of older students--adult residential programs. Adult residential education is a growing interest of American higher education. Since 1950 adult residential programs have increased in number from a handfull to more than one hundred. The response appears to be…

A study of Massachusetts Institute of Technology student living groups equipped with powerful computer workstations suggests that the intervention enhances rather than degrades the living groups socially, a few residents benefit substantially while most benefit only modestly, and individual benefits fail to offset potential organizational costs.…

Investigated incidence of eating disorders among 584 women living in university residence halls and differences in prevalence rates between single-sex and co-ed floors. Results revealed a significantly higher incidence of bulimic symptomatology on co-ed floors than on single-sex floors. (Author/NB)

Determined the types of constructs with which resident assistants (RAs) (N=23) interpreted their experience and examined the way in which RAs used these dimensions to evaluate specific aspects of their jobs, as well as the relation of the constructs to levels of reported burnout. (ABB)

Describes students who were assigned to temporary housing at Indiana University from 1979 through 1981, examines their academic progress while they were assigned to temporary space and thereafter, and traces their disciplinary records. Results indicate students assigned to temporary housing have special needs traditional programs and practices may…

Labor requirements dropped about 20 percent during a nine-year period, partially because of labor-saving devices such as modular and prefabricated units. During the same period, the cost of building college housing increased 74 percent. (Editor)

Surveyed 20 chief housing officers to determine what influence selected economic and organizational variables will have on business environment in which student housing officers will operate during the 1990s. Compared survey results to results of similar survey conducted in 1982. Environment foreseen by respondents was one of manageable…

Examines housing policy in higher education as it relates to separation between various groups in campus housing and identifies two broad types of housing policy: unitary policy, which integrates groups within housing, and pluralist policy, which allows groups to separate if desired. Examines policies at Cornell, Duke, and Harvard. Presents…