[pepsionice]

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.

[ETL]

[Tax-chick]

Very informative article. This Gen-X parent of three college students has two words to add: Community College.

[dfwgator]

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.

[binreadin]

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.

[real saxophonist]

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.

[MrEdd]

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?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

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.

[.45 Long Colt]

I graduated in the 80’s, but even then I lived in a modern campus apartment with a private bedroom that had a closet, chest, and desk. I shared a living room with cable television, kitchen, and bathroom with three others.

Today daughter lives in what is likely considered a luxury dorm and I’m glad.

[PGR88]

Pop the government supported education debt bubble

[Oatka]

I just finished reading a bio of Gen. Sherman. He attended West Point some time in the late 1830s. He mentioned that one year they had an “upgrade” to their sleeping quarters - they gave them beds.