Conducted qualitative case study of women's residence hall floor to discover how institutional culture properties shaped values, beliefs, and behaviors of undergraduate women. Findings from resident assistant, hall coordinator, faculty fellow, and 34 floor residents revealed that residence hall proved to be environment that supported residents as…

Colleges and universities face an annual challenge to distribute housing to students. Initial student numbers usually exceed housing potential, but no-shows and early departures often even the numbers in the first few weeks of the year. Complicating factors include families' increasing ability to pay for dormitory housing, better campus housing…

Explores the relationship between resident assistant (R.A.) training and improvement of job performance. Results indicate that while even short-term interventions can bring about favorable outcomes in R.A.s' behavior on the job, these benefits may be limited to the promotion of sound work practices, as opposed to the elimination of problematic…

In this study we compared perceptions of the campus climate for GLBT students from surveys returned by 80 GLBT students, 253 general students, 126 faculty members, 41 student affairs staff members, and 105 residence hall assistants. A snowball sampling strategy was used to collect GLBT student responses, all residence hall assistants were…

This document contains the following seven facilitators' skill packets on personal skills: (1) personal hygiene; (2) personal appearance; (3) locker hygiene; (4) dorm cleanliness; (5) punctuality and attendance; (6) responding to supervision; and (7) teamwork. Each packet contains the following sections: definition of personal skills; objective;…

This conference presentation describes how Virginia Wesleyan College's (VWC) arbitration process, in conjunction with the ideas contained in Ernest Boyer's special report, "Campus Life: In Search of Community", enhances the concept of community at VWC. The paper opens with a brief profile of VWC, a 1,400 student liberal arts school…

Detailed fall 1982 data, and summary data for fall 1974-1982, are presented on the utilization of residence hall facilities at campuses of the State University of New York (excluding community colleges). Trend data are displayed for each institution and institution type. Graphic displays of percent utilization of residence hall facilities are…

This study, which used a sample of freshmen and upperclassmen living in residence halls to find their attitudes over time toward themselves and toward others, occurred at a time when living styles for residence halls had been liberalized. Shifts in attitudes of various groups within the different environments were reviewed. (Author)

Proposes a new research technique for assessing student preferences through naturalistic data sampling, that is, employing the exact words that students include in their descriptions. Utilizing this technique, this study attempts to compile descriptions of residence hall environments that can be used in follow-up questionnaires and checklists for…

A study of college students was conducted to identify academic skill areas in which students were deficient. Dormitory residents were surveyed by questionnaire in the fall post-midterm (N=300), fall pre-final (N=210), winter (N=261), and spring (N=128). The questionnaire measured factors of distractability, concentration, self-concept, difficulty…

As the impact of residential living on the overall college experience is recognized, resident advisers must be human growth educators as well as facilitators of dormitory functions. This new role for resident advisers makes the task of staff selection more complex than it has been in the past. Personnel administrators must pay closer attention…

This two-part paper based on experience at the University of Michigan includes a discussion of the potential reference function of a residence hall library in a university setting and a bibliography of over 100 suggested reference tools for residence hall libraries. The residence hall library is presented as a place where students should be able…

At most institutions, freshmen are assigned to one of six residence hall types: freshmen-men; freshmen-women; freshmen-coed; freshmen-upperclass-men; freshmen-upperclass-women; and freshmen-upperclass-coed. In an attempt to clarify which of these residence hall arrangements most benefits freshmen, 2,200 freshmen (40 percent) attending 12 colleges…

Student attitudes toward residence hall security were assessed on a large midwestern university campus shortly before a coed was murdered in one of the residence halls. Follow-up study conducted after murder determined its impact upon students' security related behavior and upon attitudes toward increased security measures. (Author)