Student Housing Planning

Especially for four-year institutions, a major part of the learning experience for undergraduate students is wrapped up in their housing situation while matriculating. The integration of planning for the design, construction, renovation, programming, and policies regarding student housing are areas of interest to many SCUP members. 

Related SCUP Resources

The resources listed here are merely a sampling. Use the "Search scup.org" function in the upper right-hand corner of each of SCUP's web pages to search the society's website for more.

The webcast, Trends in Campus Housing: A Critical Component When Planning Your Campus Learning Environment and Placemaking on Campuses: Creating Destinations That Build Community are available for purchase on CD.

SCUP's journal, Planning for Higher Education, has published many articles on this topic over the years. A couple of recent articles are Developing a Comprehensive Housing Strategy: a Case Study and Students in My Backyard: Housing at the Campus Edge and Other Emerging Trends in Residential Development.

The 2009 SCUP Portfolio, Make Way for Millennials: How Students Are Shaping Learning in Higher Education, includes 13 peer-reviewed articles and 3 book reviews from two themed issues of Planning for Higher Education. This portfolio is of special interest to planners interested in the intersection between student services, academic programming, and learning space design.

Featured Other Resources

Book: Campus Housing Construction and Renovation An Analysis of Cost and Design by James C. Grimm and Norbert W. Dunkel.

Green Residence Halls Are Here: Current Trends in Sustainable Campus Housing (PDF) by Maruja Torres-Antonini and Norbert W. Dunkel from The Journal of College and University Student Housing.

Talking Stick is the official magazine of ACUHO-I (see below). Unlike ACUHO's journal, past issues of Talking Stick are available for nonmembers.

Student Housing Business is new magazine which published its first issue in October 2009.

Related Organizations

The Association of College and University Housing Officers - International (ACUHO-I) is a professional association with a membership that includes "thousands of housing professionals from more than 900 colleges and universities in 22 different countries, who serve approximately 1.8 million students worldwide." It is, along with SCUP, a member of both the Council of Higher Education Management Associations (CHEMA) and the Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC).

Related associations which serve student services professionals include ACPA, College Student Educators International and NASPA, Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

Search Higher Education Media

Enter your terms in the box above to search several higher education news media publications, trade magazines, and websites, including: American School & University, The Chronicle of Higher Education, College Planning & Management, Inside Higher Ed, Today's Campus, and University Business.