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Download full textFinn, Peter – 1997
This document offers guidance to college housing officers in implementing substance-free campus housing. The guide offers reasons for supporting the establishment of substance-free residence halls; provides evidence that such living areas benefit both students and the college; and offers suggestions for setting up and maintaining substance-free…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Case Studies, College Environment, College Housing
PDF pending restorationWisconsin Univ., Madison. ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Facilities. – 1970
Many of the references in this bibliography are followed by a listing of ERIC descriptors to indicate the contents. The items are listed in six sections: (1) residential learning facilities; (2) user research and implications for student housing design; (3) environment of residence hall and its effect on student performance and behavior; (4)…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Bibliographies, Building Design, College Environment
State Univ. of New York, Albany. Office of Institutional Research and Planning. – 1995
Data were gathered and analyzed in fall 1994 on the use of residence hall facilities at all New York state operated colleges with residence halls, and these data were also analyzed for trends in comparison with data since 1985. Twenty-six institutions were surveyed. Findings included the following: (1) total utilization of residence hall…
Descriptors: College Buildings, College Housing, Dormitories, Educational Finance
Terenzini, Patrick T.; Pascarella, Ernest T. – 1982
The influence on freshman student attrition of the group with whom a student lives (i.e., the composition or contextual character of the collegiate residence unit) was investigated. Based on Tinto's (1975) model of college student attrition, a longitudinal study was conducted at a large, independent, residential university in New York State having…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Environment, College Freshmen, College Housing
PDF pending restorationCurrent Population Reports: Population Characteristics, 1979
Living arrangements of college students from 1958 to 1976 are examined through statistics compiled in one of the Census Bureau's "Current Population Reports." It is noted that changes in the characteristics of college students during the 1970's have resulted in changes in the students' living arrangements. Major shifts between 1958 and 1976 in the…
Descriptors: Age, College Choice, College Housing, College Students
Smart, John C., Ed. – 1993
Ten papers on theory and research in higher education have the following titles and authors: "An Analysis of the Paradigmatic Evolution of U.S. Higher Education and Implications for the Year 2000" (Hasan Simsek and Richard B. Heydinger); "A Motivational Analysis of Academic Life in College" (Martin V. Covington); "The…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Instruction, College Students, Critical Theory
