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O'Connor, Shannon – College Planning & Management, 2016
Depending on where you look for statistics, the number of students enrolling in colleges or universities is increasing, decreasing or remaining the about the same. Regardless of those trends, campus housing is a marketing tool for institutions looking to draw students to and keep them on campus. Schools need to offer sufficient beds and…
Descriptors: Administrator Surveys, College Housing, Dormitories, On Campus Students
Dumford, Amber D.; Ribera, Amy K.; Miller, Angie L. – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2019
Sense of belonging is critical for students throughout their college experience, and even more so now, given the current concerns about undergraduate graduation rates. The purpose of this study was to explore how students' perception of their sense of belonging on campus is affected by where and with whom they live. We utilized a multidimensional…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Sense of Community, On Campus Students, College Freshmen
Wode, Jessica – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2018
As University housing offices seek to maximize use of their available beds, it is valuable to understand the factors that are most important in influencing students to choose to move off campus. This study compares importance ratings on a wide range of housing factors for students who planned to stay on campus and those who planned to move off…
Descriptors: College Students, Place of Residence, Decision Making, On Campus Students
Leytem, Michael; Stark, Emily – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2016
College resident halls pose a threat for a catastrophic event in the case of fire, but little research has examined potential influences on students' responses to fire alarms, particularly the role of social influence in affecting their behaviors. In the current study, residence hall inhabitants reported their knowledge about fire safety, their…
Descriptors: Dormitories, College Housing, Social Influences, Fire Protection
Ward, LaWanda; Nguyen, David J.; Nguyen, David H. K. – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2018
The role of student affairs educators is to ensure that students not only obtain an educational experience, but also that out-of-classroom experiences contribute to holistic development. In particular, student affairs professionals often coordinate residential living, student activities, and advising programs. These programmatic offerings need to…
Descriptors: Weapons, Violence, Prevention, Accountability
Brown, Joshua; Volk, Fred; Spratto, Elisabeth M. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2019
This study investigates the impact of residence hall architecture on students' academic achievement, also considering the influence of race and homophily opportunity--a tendency to create social bonds with like others. We found that socializing architecture was positively associated with a higher first-semester grade point average, and that…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Influences, Dormitories, Design
Molina, Danielle K.; Heiselt, April; Justice, Cheryl – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2015
Modernizing perspectives on roommate compatibility might be one way that administrators reinforce the value of the roommate experience in contemporary campus housing. Using the insights of a study published by Hallisey, Harren, and Caple in "Journal of College and University Student Housing" in 1980 as a springboard, this article will…
Descriptors: College Housing, Dormitories, Peer Relationship, College Students
Sears, Stephanie D.; Tu, Dawn Lee – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2017
Living-Learning Communities (LLCs) develop and strengthen students' persistence by providing a greater sense of community, opportunities for co-curricular activities, and socially engaging and academically supportive peer environments (Shapiro & Levine, 1999). While researchers have affirmed the rationale, impact, and efficacy of LLCs, very…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Scholarship, Living Learning Centers, Consciousness Raising
De Iulio, Edward B. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
As funding for institutions of higher education becomes tighter, state and federal entities have turned to student retention and graduation rates as measures of success to determine levels of financial support. A concept, supported by student development theories, used to increase retention and graduation rates is creating living learning…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Business Administration Education, Communities of Practice, Cooperative Learning
Washington, William, III – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Student demographics on college campuses continues to change. The globalization of the student population brings challenges to providing optimal services from staff throughout higher education and particularly from professional housing and residential life (HRL) staff, who may be the first level of support for many students. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Awareness, Interpersonal Competence, College Housing
Taub, Deborah J.; Johnson, R. Bradley; Reynolds, Torry – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2016
Gender-neutral housing has recently become an option at colleges and universities across the U.S. Chief housing officers at Association of College and University Housing Officers-International member institutions were surveyed online about the status of gender-neutral housing at their respective campuses, using an instrument adapted by the…
Descriptors: Campuses, College Housing, Dormitories, College Students
Boettcher, Michelle L.; Eason, Angel; Earnest, Kurt; Lewis, Leslie – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2019
Students of Color Experience predominantly White institutions (PWIs) differently than do White students in terms of belonging, support, connecting, and success. While this topic has been explored broadly, there remain gaps in the literature about experiences of Students of Color in the context of residential communities, which provide the setting…
Descriptors: Dormitories, Minority Group Students, Institutional Characteristics, Sense of Community
Tolman, Steven – ProQuest LLC, 2016
There are over 700,000 international students currently studying in the U.S. (McMurtrie, 2011) contributing close to $12 billion yearly to the U.S. economy (Altbach, 2004). Universities cannot take for granted that international students will choose U.S. institutions. While great attention and research efforts have been given to support programs…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Housing, State Colleges, Statistical Analysis
Gaston, Michelle Elise – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The number of international students on U.S. campuses has increased more than 84 percent over the past decade (IIE, 2016). Although it has been well-established that interaction and friendship with local students is a key element for international student adjustment to a foreign university, few studies have grappled with how these intercultural…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Experience, Intercultural Communication, Interaction
Severance, Dana A. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Housing professionals are increasingly compelled to consider hiring resident assistants (RAs) from a pool of applicants that includes students with less college experience than has traditionally been expected. The purpose of the study is to determine if the success of first-time sophomore RAs differs from that of first-time upper-class RAs…
Descriptors: College Students, Resident Advisers, Predictive Validity, Performance Based Assessment