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Why Universities Are Phasing Out Luxury Dorms
The Atlantic ^ | August 21, 2017 | Jeffrey Selingo

Posted on 08/26/2017 12:35:39 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 08/26/2017 12:35:39 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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This apartment-like suite might be appropriate for those who work, and entertain guests...but students? I kinda agree that most kids will arrive and have a 10-month plan to survive a class-year at some university, and a 6 by 12 ft room, with access to some communal shower is about all that 90-percent care about. Throw a poster up on the wall, and you’ve got a brief home for 10 months.

For some idiot who has an entertainment plan, a nightly cooking plan, and seeking to look like some long-term renter....he’ll run out of hours in the day to study and complete home-work.


2 posted on 08/26/2017 1:04:52 AM PDT by pepsionice
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3 posted on 08/26/2017 1:19:17 AM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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Yes, inexpensive rooms are the best for the great majority of college students. I think that upscale dorms are marketed at upscale parents, not students. The steeply increasing price and debt load of college is a major problem.


4 posted on 08/26/2017 1:23:49 AM PDT by iowamark
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When you reach some stage where $200,000 is the standard for some kid to get a fancy-pants degree....you might as well send the kid off to Europe for four years and let them self-educate themselves with the money. You’d get the same result in the end.


5 posted on 08/26/2017 1:56:38 AM PDT by pepsionice
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upscale dorms are for people who do it realize they should be spending most nights at the library hitting the books.


6 posted on 08/26/2017 2:00:42 AM PDT by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp)
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I took #2 and made it look a hell of a lot more like #1 than #2. I had a bar (3 person mdf with faux leather front, buttons a bar top with a rail and one pathetic shelf behind it mind you). I had a sectional. I had 3/4th inch padding under my fitted luxury carpet remnant. I had a coffee table which could flip over to a game table. I put a 200 watt bulb in the light and with live wires installed a dimmer. I painted the room beige adding a dark brown accent trim. I had wall hangings, not posters. It was a good time. Bar $20 from a garage sale. Sectional $50 from a garage sale. Remnant and underlayment free from a friend. Coffee table $30 bucks also from a garage sale. Gay friend over one room (Brings in hot chicks). Weed dealer across the hall. Campus cop up three rooms (Loved me and was a good buddy). Used to study with the door open. Big TV on one side of the bar. Small but good component stereo.

Those were the days... Poker games half the week and poke her games the other half. Girls would walk through our hall an stop and stare. I would invite them in. I am sitting here grinning and reminiscing. Good good times.

I was if you build it they will come before the movie.


7 posted on 08/26/2017 2:04:21 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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I live in a university town. A few thoughts on this. The make up of the student body is quite a bit different than when I went to college years ago. I think about half of university is made up of international students and older students returning for advanced degrees. They either have the money, or their parents do..

When cheap money started flowing after the GFC, crap shacks and run down apartment buildings were replaced with upscale apartment buildings. Anyone that hasn't been to campus in 10 years wouldn't recognize the main drag and surrounding areas. At least one of the new apartment towers is considered luxury. The campus also replaced many rundown dorms. I suspect many of those dorms have the amenities to compete with the new apartment buildings.

8 posted on 08/26/2017 3:00:53 AM PDT by EVO X
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Very informative article. This Gen-X parent of three college students has two words to add: Community College.


9 posted on 08/26/2017 3:27:51 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Defensive weapons are not 'provocative' unless you're an aggressor." ~Gen. Mattis)
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If somebody sees this pic 1000 years from now they might think it was an ancient alien and his space ship.


10 posted on 08/26/2017 4:06:40 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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Most students move off-campus after their Freshman year, anyway.


11 posted on 08/26/2017 4:16:09 AM PDT by dfwgator
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That’s a fancy room. Kid has a microwave and fridge.
Way nicer than what I had.


12 posted on 08/26/2017 4:16:11 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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Texas Tech University boasts “the largest leisure pool on a college campus in the United States, with a 645-foot-long lazy river as the centerpiece of the design.”

That's where my daughter is going, but I really can't complain about the tuition there compared with other schools.

13 posted on 08/26/2017 4:18:26 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Bingo! And 15 years from now, nobody will know or care that they went to a community college. They may care somewhat if they graduated from a decent 4 year college after community college, but unless you’re in there pitching for a job at a top tier law or accounting firm, nobody will care where you graduated from. And if they do, you don’t want to work there anyway.


14 posted on 08/26/2017 4:21:18 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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And if they do, you don’t want to work there anyway.

Exactly. I accept that young people are almost certainly going to need a college credential to get going in their careers, but the additional value of $250,000 worth as opposed to $25,000 (or less) just isn't there, in my opinion.

$25,000 is what it cost my oldest son to complete 3 years of community college (he flailed a bit at first) and 2 years of university, while living at home. He has a business degree, no debt, and a job with considerable advancement potential at an investment company.

15 posted on 08/26/2017 4:41:11 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Defensive weapons are not 'provocative' unless you're an aggressor." ~Gen. Mattis)
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Also, I like your tagline!


16 posted on 08/26/2017 4:41:35 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Defensive weapons are not 'provocative' unless you're an aggressor." ~Gen. Mattis)
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We had a family member in those GA State dorms. Complete fiasco, with private, multi-bedroom apartments shared with strangers. Students also all had to move out at the end of the year (at least) as I remember, so there was lots of moving in and out once you got the kids settled initially. Our family member was subject to loud rap music when they were trying to study, and there were often warnings of shootings nearby, which were transmitted to the parents as well. We moved them out after the first year into a private apt, which was cheaper, quieter and safer.
17 posted on 08/26/2017 5:00:32 AM PDT by binreadin
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That's one thing about all the 'fees' I had to pay in college. I was paying for a building in which I was never going to set foot.

This university, citing increased enrollment, tore down an old dorm and built a brand new 'residence hall'. This building holds the same number of students as the old one, just in bigger, nicer rooms.

18 posted on 08/26/2017 5:32:48 AM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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When I was in college in the eighties I rented a large two bedroom apartment and cooked my own food for two thirds of what it would have cost to live in the dorms.

Add in a room mate part of the time and it was cheaper still.

During that time, Oklahoma State University shut down several large dorms for lack of occupancy.

What do you suppose might have caused people to not live in the dorms?


19 posted on 08/26/2017 5:53:03 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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A long article, but not one word that I could see about how federal intrusion into higher ed financing caused the lux dorms in the first place.


20 posted on 08/26/2017 6:01:16 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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