This report discusses policies that guide housing for students on college and university campuses in matters that concern relations among status groups based on ethnic, religious, racial, and sexual backgrounds and orientations. The issue of self-segregation has emerged as a crucial one to many colleges as enrollment of minorities has increased.…

Giving students what they want, such as carpeting and kitchens, is bringing them back to campus housing, and innovations such as letting students do the decorating are making it financially possible for many colleges to upgrade student housing. (Author)

Describes some of the problems that student rejection of traditional campus residence halls has created at colleges and universities. Offers some solutions. (Author/MF)

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

Members of a commune and members of a fraternity and a sorority were compared on measures of attitude and behavior. As predicted, commune residents demonstrated significantly more favorable attitudes toward non-traditional values. Also, the living arrangement of a commune may be more reinforcing toward within-group cooperation. (Author)

Survey results among forty-three juniors indicate general satisfication with living in college apartments, particularly in social areas, although some concern was expressed in developing sense of identity. (CJ)

The purpose of this study was to decide whether students who lived in different academic environments experienced similar or different problems in terms of frequency and severity. A number of significant differences were found for specific problem subareas. (Author)

The author discusses elements on which the personnel worker must focus attention to help communities grow and serve the needs of their members. (Author)

The data produced by the study showed a strong desire on the part of many students for housing situations or items that reinforce feelings of independence. (Author)

Comparison of the fraternity and non-fraternity upperclassmen showed significant differences for the residence hall men in the areas of social conscience, satisfaction with major, and peer independence; and, for the fraternity sample, in the area of extracurricular involvement. (Author/MF)

Studies the possibility of using the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) in reliably differentiating levels of competence in resident assistants (RAs). Pinpoints personality traits favorably rated by RA selectors and indicates a small subset of the CPI which could be used for screening RA applicants. (Author/BEF)