tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617623454627721065.post2473618383107248964..comments2014-10-19T20:03:21.930-07:00Comments on Robert Giffen Econ 490 fall 2012 Blog: Housing as an OrganizationRobert Giffen Econ 490 fall 2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/08978956285145192486noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617623454627721065.post-79044706227352194632012-09-15T14:58:43.907-07:002012-09-15T14:58:43.907-07:00Given the requirement that first year students mus...Given the requirement that first year students must be in the dorms or certified student housing, something I believe most parents would sign onto, perhaps it is that Campus housing provides a different set of services than the market does. In particular, it would seem that big part of the mission is to help students make the transition in moving away from home and then in embracing behaviors that are by and large healthful and compatible with doing well at their studies. Commercial housing doesn't have that as part of the agenda at all. <br /><br />My older son who is now in an apartment with his buddies spent a second year in the dorm. It was just easier for him to do that. We didn't encourage it one way or the other. <br /><br />You didn't mention this above, but when I started back in 1980 the student population was more than 92% in state. Now there many more out of state students and quite a few of them are international students. It would be interesting to know how this changing demographic impacts housing's mission. <br /><br />I went to private universities as an undergrad - first MIT and then I transferred to Cornell. The dorms were not palaces but they were more spacious than what I saw of the room in the Illinois street residence, which was tiny. I'm not sure why public versus private should make a difference on the dorms. As far as I know that cost has never been picked up by the state. On the other hand, median parental income at Illinois probably is lower than at those other places. Professor Arvanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15256000730474030475noreply@blogger.com