The Student Housing Matters blog explores ideas with leaders in higher education and the student housing profession. This is the place to find stories from those who have worked in the field for many years, podcast interviews, and videos about relevant topics in the student housing world.

It’s about matters relating to on-campus student housing, as well as why quality on-campus student housing really matters. We want this blog to serve as a forum for sharing ideas and insights about how your on-campus student housing can do things beyond simply housing students. How it can be used as a more powerful tool to recruit and retain students on your campus. We look forward to you joining us in the conversation.

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Freshman Bond Over Shared Love for the “Today Show”

September 3, 2013

Tight knit community is one of the main advantages to living on-campus early in a college tenure.  That community builds a sense of belonging, which then translates to a student being more likely to finish at that university. In the spirit of building community, and fresh off of move-in, a group of Freshman students living…

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Photo Contest: Week 2 Summary

September 3, 2013

We received so many awesome pictures the last two weeks. We’re going to let YOU decide the grand prize winner in a couple of days but first, check out some of the best pics we received the last week of the contest.

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Move-In: Behind the Scenes

August 29, 2013

On college campuses across the country, this time of year is one of great activity and a lot of excitement. Tens of thousands of students from coast to coast are settling into their new homes. Making the transition a smooth one for incoming Freshman, returning Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors, and Grads is a monumental feat that…

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Photo Contest: Week 1 Summary

August 26, 2013

Check out some of the best pictures from the first week of the “Move-In Photo Contest.”  Remember the contest continues for another week and ends next Monday (Sept. 2).  See the contest details for ways to submit!

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Don’t Take Anything Personally

August 19, 2013

I recently read The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz.  One of the agreements is Don’t take anything personally. don Miguel Ruiz further shares that, “nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and…

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Move-In Photo Contest!

August 13, 2013

It’s that time of year again… That time when the masses of students are migrating back to campus and moving trucks are getting ready to be unloaded.  It’s one of the busiest times of the year for on-campus housing – move-in!  And we’d love to see you in action.  So, we’re putting on a photo…

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The Golden Ticket

August 8, 2013

Perhaps the most stressful event for a student moving to a new housing community is move-in day: parents driving with their son or daughter to a new place, trying to figure out when and where to check-in and start moving all of your electronics and plastic storage boxes, and figuring out where the closest TARGET…

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International Student Affairs – Interview and Photos with Tonya Neumeier

July 31, 2013

If you have ever wondered what student affairs in higher education looks like on an international scale, don’t miss the video below.  Tonya Neumeier, Vice President of University and Client Relations at Capstone On-Campus, sat down with us and re-lived the ACUI International Study Tour of the Arabian Gulf.  In the video podcast below, she…

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The “Y’all Line” – Maps of Regional Linguistic Differences

June 7, 2013

Like I’ve mentioned before, I love maps and the way they display data.  So I came across this group of maps that display linguistic differences across the country on varying words and phrases.  Joshua Katz, a Ph. D student in statistics at North  Carolina State University, takes stuff like “how do you pronounce ‘crayon’?” and “how…

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Houses Become Homes

April 23, 2013

This article describes housing assignment day at Harvard.  From the description, you might mistake the euphoric atmosphere for a pep rally or the opening day of football season in the South. This is the type of excitement and community building that can occur when a housing and residence life program is positioned correctly and is…

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Celebrities that Started Out as Resident Assistants

April 12, 2013

Anyone who has worked in or anywhere near a Residence Life department knows that resident assistants are afforded some very unique and invaluable experiences during their career.  The lessons that an R.A. teaches and learns, can lay a great foundation for a successful future, no matter the course chosen.  We thought it would be fun…

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