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Gudrun Nyunt; Emily Sandoval; Yuan Zhou – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2024
Promoting staff well-being has been a challenge for many residence life departments long before the COVID-19 pandemic led to a decrease in the mental well-being of the general population as well as in residence life staff. The stressful work environment and demanding work hours in residence life have been linked to burnout and intentions to leave…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Work Environment, Well Being
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Ellett, Thomas; Stipeck, Christopher J.; Pérez, David, II. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2020
Mid-level managers have the difficult task of juggling needs and direction of entry-level staff with the demanding outcomes from their supervisors and senior leadership. To be successful, they must maneuver through demanding expectations from their supervisors while simultaneously garnering buy-in from those they directly supervise in order to…
Descriptors: College Housing, Middle Management, Dormitories, Expertise
Whyte, William – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2019
In the UK, students are more likely to live away from home than students in other countries, which affects the nature of the student experience in profound ways. In this paper, the Oxford historian William Whyte considers why the residential model is so dominant, looks at what it means for students and poses some important questions about the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Place of Residence, College Housing
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Weaver-Douglas, Janine M. – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2022
Housing and residence life has identified the need and priority to recenter the purprose and role of our work in a post-COVID world. Housing and residence life has not, in the same way, identified the need and priority to critically examine how the systems and models of our work are founded within an oppressive system, steeped in whiteness and…
Descriptors: College Students, African American Students, College Housing, Dormitories
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Githaiga, Jennifer Nyawira; Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla; Wahl, W. P. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2018
This article seeks to illuminate the deeper and complex dimensions of post-apartheid transformation by examining how University of the Free State (UFS) undergraduate students experienced racial integration within campus residences. Data were drawn from a sample of 17 individual semi-structured in-depth narrative interviews with student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Housing, Undergraduate Students, Student Experience
Dadzie, Philomena – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Numerous research and literature available on residence life are centered on students' experiences from the United States. Available literature indicates residence life is an important step in building a solid foundation for success in and beyond college. Success in college is a way of building lifelong relationships and finding one's place both…
Descriptors: College Housing, Dormitories, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Vaccaro, Annemarie; Kimball, Ezekiel – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2019
Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems model (1979, 1993), we analyzed grounded theory data from 31 student affairs professionals about supporting students with and without disabilities in, and beyond, the university microsystem of housing. Participants described the challenge of simultaneously meeting the needs of students with and without…
Descriptors: Disabilities, College Students, College Housing, Dormitories
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Pitts, James A.; Waryold, Daisy – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2019
The Sanction Enhancement Group, pilot tested in the Division of Housing at the University of Florida, was a structured group experience for residence hall students. The group's experience reflected a major goal of the judicial system within the Division of Housing--education through redirecting behavior. The group members were students whose…
Descriptors: Punishment, Dormitories, Discipline, Peer Relationship
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Gaylo, Derren N.; Anar, Lora E.; Improgo, Cecille Marie T.; Alugar, Ritchelee B. – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
The COVID-19 outbreak in the Philippines forced schools to close. Many Filipino students were stranded in their dormitories and boarding houses due to government-imposed lockdowns. As the study's impetus, the researchers explored the phenomenon of stranded students during a pandemic. A transcendental phenomenological inquiry was conducted in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Dormitories
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Stoner, James C. – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2019
Hiring the most capable students to serve in the RA role should be a top priority for housing departments due to their critical role as front-line student success employees. The effort to identify and hire RAs typically includes a substantial investment of personnel resources in hiring processes, where candidates are typically evaluated across…
Descriptors: Resident Advisers, College Housing, Personnel Selection, Job Performance
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Groenewald, Johan; Fourie-Malherbe, Magda – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2019
Research evidence suggests that approaches to promote student success in higher education are becoming more holistic and integrated in nature. This implies that not only classrooms and laboratories, but also residences, as informal out-of-class learning environments, can potentially contribute significantly to promoting student success. The…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Academic Achievement, Dormitories, Correlation
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Garvey, Jason C.; Guyotte, Kelly W.; Latopolski, Keely S.; Sanders, Laura A.; Flint, Maureen A. – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2018
The purpose of this study was to explore sense of belonging across race and gender using Strayhorn's (2012) sense of belonging model as a conceptual framework to guide both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection and analysis. Survey data confirmed findings from previous literature concerning disparities between belongingness among…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Dormitories, College Housing, College Freshmen
Jeffries, Matthew Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Gender inclusive housing (GIH) is widely viewed as a best practice to include trans* students within collegiate residence halls. Because of this insistence that GIH is an inclusive strategy, GIH has become a national trend across universities. Yet, in spite of GIH's increasing popularity, there is a dearth in the literature on the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Dormitories, College Housing, Sexual Identity
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Bosch, Matthew Antonio – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2020
Exemplifying the unwritten curriculum of working in higher education, LGBTQ+ professionals in housing and residence life do not receive a manual on what to anticipate in their professional roles regarding the consideration of their identities within a new institutional culture. Many professionals enter housing and residence life as their entry…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Higher Education, College Housing, Professional Personnel
Jaworski, Brian R. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
With the increasing cost of attendance and concerns regarding incoming student preparedness (Jackson & Kurlaender, 2013), administrators of U.S. colleges and universities are seeking ways to help more students be successful and persist to graduation. Although research has demonstrated the contribution of psychosocial factors to student success…
Descriptors: College Housing, Dormitories, College Students, Resident Advisers
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