Student Housing: Trends, Preferences And Needs

Flanigan, Mary A.; Copeland, Peter

doi:10.19030/cier.v3i10.238

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“…Foubert et al (1998) found predictors of student satisfaction in university residence halls, through focusing on facilities, room-mates, noise, safety and security. La Roche et al (2010) undertook similar research on trends in the needs and preferences of users of student housing in Italy, and the students' preferred characteristics of facilities, as did Najib et al (2011) in Malaysian universities using POE techniques. Amole (2009) focused on the morphological configuration of halls of residence in Nigeria and found that characteristics like plan form and length of corridors affect student satisfaction.…”

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Shared student residential space: a post occupancy evaluation

Khajehzadeh

Vale

2016

JFM

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -In Iran, as elsewhere, a great number of student dormitory-style buildings have been built with shared rooms either side of a central corridor as a simple and affordable building form. Highly populated shared rooms with common facilities in such buildings can produce problems in terms of personal space but, at the same time, have many advantages for social interactions and better use of resources, which is a feature of sustainability. Most of these buildings are old and need fundamental refurbishment. This study aims to provide some guidelines to improve advantages and control disadvantages of this building type for future refurbishment and new developments. Design/methodology/approach -The advantages and disadvantages of shared spaces have been analysed using a Post Occupancy Evaluation approach in a case study which is representative of more than 30 university dormitories in Iran. Interview, observation and questionnaire survey tools are used in this study. Findings -Results show students have some problems regarding privacy, interaction, security, noise, circulation, access hierarchy, storage spaces, use of rooms and territory definition. Practical implications -Based on the results of the study, some design suggestions are made for more efficient shared spaces for future designs and also for improving the case study dormitory, in terms of both access hierarchy and internal room arrangements. Originality/value -Post Occupancy Evaluation has not previously been used to provide guidelines for architects to improve the quality of design according to existing functional/behavioural problems in similar buildings.

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Shared student residential space: a post occupancy evaluation

Khajehzadeh

Vale

2016

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“…According to Sawyerr & Yusof (2013), various names have been referred to the hostel by different countries and authors. The Western countries attributed it as residence (Amole, 2005;Wiens, 2010) while La Roche et al (2010) viewed it as student dormitory. On the other hand, Martin and Allen (2009) referred to hostel as campus apartments.…”

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تقییم ممارسات المدن الجامعیة نحو الاستجابة لمتطلبات التنمیة المستدامة

عامر¹

2020

مجلة کلیة السیاحة والفنادق - جامعة مدینة السادات

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University student hostels not only can promote sustainability by adopting its features on their practices, but they also can develop the culture of sustainability in society. That is why hostels can be considered as small cities due to their large size, population, and the various complex practices taking place on their operation. This study aims to evaluate economic, social, and environmental practices of university student hostels towards meeting the requirements of sustainable development (SD). Data were collected by developed questionnaire. Originally, 180 questionnaire forms were distributed to employees of different six university student hostels. Only 105 questionnaires were returned giving a response rate of 58.3%. Data were statistically analyzed by using frequencies & percentages, Spearman correlation coefficient, and regression analysis. The findings of the study indicate that the majority of economic, social, and environmental requirements are not being implemented with sufficient strength into hostels' practices. The factors influenced sustainability of practices was all positively confirmed by findings of the empirical study. Awareness of management had the highest influence on sustainability of practices, followed by leadership & management attitude, participation willingness of employees, and finally the contribution of stakeholders. In addition, the most challenges and obstacles encounter hostels were financial challenges, lack of awareness, the shortage of information on programs and fixtures associated with SD, and insufficiency of current legislation. The study concluded providing a framework and some recommendations to implement sustainability into hostel operations.

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“…Plenty of students cannot imagine living without modern "gadgets" such as smartphone, iPad, laptop, MP3/MP4 player, printing machine or game console. (La Roche, Flanigan & Copeland, 2010) The marketing research aimed at consumer behavior of US university students describes the structure of their consumer expenditures. In the year 2012, there was a consumer demand of students 40% higher thanks to higher intentional expenditures (expenditures above the compulsory expenditures needed supporting consumerism).…”

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Consumer Behavior of College Students in the Czech Republic

Horáková¹

2015

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This contribution is a follow-up to the topic of consumer behavior which is analyzed from the economic theory perspective on microeconomic as well as a macroeconomic level. The main objective of the article is to reveal the structure of college students' consumer basket determined according to disposable income and its changes. In this article, the methodology of a consumer basket was used. The division of it was done by Czech Statistical Office to calculate the inflation rate in the environment of the Czech Republic. In this article, the analysis of college students' consumer basket was done. The pressure on having a higher qualification in tertiary education is a typical trend across Europe, which is also one of strategic goals of EU Strategy 2020 and its concept. There is clear evidence of a growing segment of college students that represents a significant demand group on the product and service market. The knowledge of their consumer habits is definitely beneficial for companies regarding their competitive advantage and reaching higher incomes from the products offered. The market product consumption is dependent on the total disposable income mainly. That is fundamentally dependent on hours of paid work or other fund contributions. The current disposable income shows the differences regarding consumption expenditures of a consumer basket and its various categories. A lower disposable income is typical for flowing the highest consumer expenditures from class 1 (Food and non-alcoholic beverages) to class 4 (Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels) of a higher disposal income. If the current disposable income of college students increases, there would be higher consumption expenditures regarding classes 9, 3 and 5 (Recreation and culture; Clothing and footwear; Furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance). On the contrary, a lower disposable income would mean lower expenditures regarding classes 3, 2 and 9 (Clothing and footwear; Alcoholic beverages and tobacco; Recreation and culture).

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Student Housing: Trends, Preferences And Needs

Cited by 42 publications

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Shared student residential space: a post occupancy evaluation

Shared student residential space: a post occupancy evaluation

تقییم ممارسات المدن الجامعیة نحو الاستجابة لمتطلبات التنمیة المستدامة

Consumer Behavior of College Students in the Czech Republic

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