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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I Learned to Supervise Millennials While Taking Piano Lessons

November 15, 2012

There’s a new generation overrunning our departments: Millennials.  They were born after 1980 and came of age in the new millennium.  Also, they are becoming unavoidable in the workplace.  I, like many others, have been frantically adapting my supervision style to match their needs.  I find myself doing all the same things I’ve previously done,…

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Stupid Resident Tricks: Our students are playing some dangerous “games”

November 8, 2012

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…

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Observations from the Corner Office

November 6, 2012

Earlier this year, Capstone On-Campus employees outlined six “promises” to our colleagues, residents, and clients that we believe are critical to supporting and maintaining our focus and mission, which is to continue to excel as specialists in the management of student housing owned by non-profits.  Our goal is to come to work every day committed…

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Looking Deeper at Student Happiness

October 30, 2012

The Huffington Post recently tweeted a blog article highlighting a list of the “Top 10 Colleges with the Happiest Students.” Seeing as I’m a sucker for top 10 lists, I had to peruse the list.  As I did, I noticed something that showed up in the description of each school listed.  Here are some quotes:…

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Social Media Adoption Soars in Higher Ed

October 25, 2012

As mentioned in a recent CNN article, “according to a study by the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, 100% of universities surveyed use social media to communicate with students, up from 61% in 2007-08. The study found that 98% of the responding colleges have a Facebook page and 84% have a…

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College Affordability and Transparency Center

October 22, 2012

I wanted to send this link to our Blog readers because it is a resource that I like a lot. The information is provided by the U.S. Department of Education in response to The Higher Education Opportunity Act.  If you want to know where your College/University stacks up in the ranking of Tuition and Fees…

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Avoiding the “Noise”

October 11, 2012

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about things that higher education professionals like to see on Twitter.  I contacted many people in the #HigherEd community and came to some pretty neat conclusions about using Twitter as a professional development tool. But when I actually contacted these folks, I not only asked them…

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Step Out Moment

October 9, 2012

On a typical day at the office in the week leading up to final exams, I received a phone call on my direct line.  The caller seemed startled when I answered the phone. “Hello, this is Doug Brown.” There was a short pause and then the caller said. “Is this the president of Capstone Management?…

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What We’re Reading – The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking

October 5, 2012

Last month, I wrote a blog about a book I was reading by Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird, entitled “The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking.”  Since that blog was posted, we interviewed one of the authors, Ed Burger, on our “Join the Conversation” podcast (September 24th). Today I’m writing one last blog about an…

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