A new on-campus apartment complex at a Texas university contains eight units, each containing four apartments, whose design was based on the amenities students valued both in an apartment complex and in individual units. (Author/MLF)

Presents tips from a superintendent of buildings and grounds who visited various colleges to see what worked -- and what didn't -- in dormitory windows. (Author)

Georgia Southern College bought some rundown private dormitories and renovated them to meet increased demands for on-campus housing. (Author/MLF)

The newest dormitory at John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio, was designed to blend with three existing dormitories to complete a quadrangle and to respect the residential quality of the neighborhood across the street. (Author/MLF)

To meet an increased demand for campus housing, Hofstra University (New York) converted double dormitory rooms to triples. Specially designed furniture allowing each student personal space was the key to acceptance by the students. (Author/MLF)

Effective measures to decrease vandalism on the Oswego campus include replacement of damaged items with more resilient materials, the maintenance of communication between campus police and residence hall personnel, and a variety of measures to encourage community ownership and pride. (MLF)

Examples of colleges that have attempted to make campus life accessible to the handicapped students are taken from a chapter in a forthcoming Educational Facilities Laboratories publication on current aspects of student housing. (Author)

Seven experts describe the elements that make college housing a success. (Author)

Students, faculty, and administrators meet in various activities at the new University Center at the University of the Pacific. (Author/MLF)

Innovative planning and performance specifications cut New Jersey's costs by a third. (Author)

Describes student housing at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine; a new community college facility or "megastructure" that is seven stories high and four blocks long in New York City; a track stadium at the University of California at Los Angeles; a multipurpose gymnasium at Merrimack College in Andover, Massachusetts; and a multi-use,…

Architects for a new student-housing project at the State University of New York at Brockport used System III, a French industrialized building system, to create a humanistic, low-rise apartment village, while shortening project delivery time and markedly cutting construction costs. (JG)