“COCM is receptive to hearing from their team. So…speak up if there’s something that you need or have feedback on. Most people are really willing to listen and work with you to help create something better.”— Dr. Amy Lorenz Join us as we celebrate COCM’s 20th anniversary with the theme “Honoring the Past, Celebrating the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The University of New Haven (UNH) is on a mission to create a groundbreaking residential center on campus that responds to the growing demand of incoming students who would like more privacy, more space to gather and socialize, and more technology and innovation than any previous generation living on campus. This evolution of student housing…
We interviewed TJ Logan on “forward-thinking” in the student affairs world. TJ is the Associate Director of Housing for Administrative Services at the University of Florida and is a leader in the world of student affairs innovation. Watch the video below, or listen to the audio through the media player at the top of this…
As we plan for the next academic year in student housing, we are all trying to reassess how we disseminate and present information to today’s students. What worked five years ago, probably isn’t going to work well today. Our student’s information environment has changed greatly. We need to think in terms of using smaller bits…
In this episode we interview Capstone On Campus Management’s Associate Vice President of Business Services, Masha Sapper. Masha has 14 years of experience in the student housing industry. We asked Masha to be on the podcast because of her extensive experience in helping campuses accomodate observant Jewish students in all areas of campus housing and…
I’m not sure whether the cause is boredom, curiosity, the need for a thrill, a natural desire to push boundaries, or just plain old-fashioned peer pressure, but the number of incident reports coming across my desk lately that chronicle really poor choices by residents has risen significantly over the past couple of years. If you’re…
Move-in is a lot of work, but it really is a special time. The Florida Atlantic University media relations department allowed us to share this great video they put together so we can see how much fun it was for them.
