Business and higher education are two different worlds with different missions, values and priorities. Privatized student housing partnerships have brought these two worlds together with little information on how they work and the challenges they face. Research indicated that through collaboration, skilled leadership and an understanding of students, healthy relationships could exist. The purpose of this study was to provide awareness of these existing partnerships and the current perceptions from leaders from both higher education and business working within present collaborations. It sought to uncover and bring awareness to the challenges experienced in order to create a dialogue around them. Feedback obtained from 30 professionals working within public-private partnerships from both the business and higher education worlds provided insight into existing perceptions and challenges. Semi-structured interviews where utilized and customized using eight open-ended questions that were different for each group. A purposeful sampling approach was used to select the participants based on their existing partnership with a privatized student housing company. Out of the thirty participants, twenty were chief officers within higher education and ten business officers. Analysis of the thirty interviews depicted three major themes: the two worlds: business and higher education, the bridge: leader of the village and the resident: customer and student. Results showed that collaboration and leadership changes can make or break the partnership. It highlighted the diversity in values and concerns of higher education institutions and reinforced the importance they place on student development and retention.

There are diverse participants in the student housing development in campus KTH, in which everyone plays a role and has his own claim and influence.  The stakeholder theory provides a pluralistic perspective and various analyzing techniques to get a better understanding of the question “who or what really matters” in the student housing development process.    The aim of this paper is to conduct an empirical stakeholder analysis for the student accommodation projects in campus KTH. The research work is done using stakeholder definitions and analysis techniques derived from relevant literature, based on the stakeholder data gained directly and indirectly form interview informants and open sources.  In the analysis, the author firstly attempts to identify—and map out—the student housing project’s stakeholders and their “stake”, influence and claims. The prioritizing of stakeholders is then studied based on the stakeholder information aforementioned, using Mitchell etc’s (1997) salience class model. The interactions between multi-stakeholders are also revealed to interpret their joint influence on various development activities. Finally, a framework of engagement strategies towards individual stakeholders in different stages is formed by the author, aiming to provide implications for the stakeholder management of the student housing projects.  The conclusion of this study summarizes the main findings of the stakeholder analysis. Considering subjectivity is the most noticeable limitation in this study, it is suggested that future studies focus more on the relatively objective evaluation of importance of stakeholders. Questionnaire may be a feasible method to gather reliable information and stakeholder analysis techniques derived from the literature can provide guidance to decrease bias in stakeholder evaluation and analysis / Det finns flera olika deltagare för utvecklingen av studentbostäder på campus KTH, där alla spelar en egen roll och har sina egna krav och inflytande. Intressentteorin tillhandahåller ett pluralistiskt perspektiv och diverse analystekniker för att få en bättre förståelse i frågan "Vem eller vad är verkligen avgörande" i utvecklingsprocessen för studentbostäder.  Syftet med denna uppsats är att genomföra en empirisk intressentanalys för studentboende projekten på campus KTH. Forskningsarbetet görs med hjälp av intressentanalysstekniker härledda från litteraturen, baserat på intressentdata som erhållits direkt och indirekt från intervjuinformanter och öppna källor. I analysen försöker författaren identifiera och kartlägga studentboende projektens intressenter och deras "stake", inflytande och påståenden. Prioritering av intressenter studeras sedan baserat på intressentinformationen ovan, med hjälp av Mitchell etcs (1997) salience-klassmodell. Samspelet mellan flera intressenter visas också på för att tolka deras gemensamma påverkan på olika utvecklingsaktiviteter. Slutligen bildas en ram av engagemangsstrategier mot enskilda intressenter i olika etapper av författaren, som syftar till att ge konsekvenser för intressenthanteringen av studentboende projekten. Slutsatsen av denna studie sammanfattar de viktigaste resultaten av intressentanalysen.  Att ta hänsyn till subjektivitet är den mest märkbara begränsningen i denna studie, framtida studier föreslås fokuserar mer på den relativt objektiva utvärderingen av intressenternas betydelse. Frågeformuläret kan vara en genomförbar metod för att samla tillförlitlig information och intressentanalys tekniker som är erhållna från litteraturen kan ge vägledning för att minska partiskhet i bedömning och analys av intressenter.

Housing shortage is an issue many young adults have to face when moving to Umeå as students, as well as the never ending queues to rent a below average apartment or dorm in the outskirts of the city. Anyone who moves to Umeå to study, should be able to find a safe and adequate place to live in proximity to the university and city center; not only because students in themselves are a diverse and valuable part of the population and the city’s growth, but because housing is a basic necessity that needs to be fulfilled. How can architecture improve students’ lives in Umeå? This project is located at Hamrinsberget, an underused hill that functions as a powerful tool for students to gain restitution as they rise above the city. The nature surrounding the apartment building provides a peaceful and calm environment for studying. As this young population is put in a vulnerable social position when moving to a new city, possibly all by their lonesome, a strong community has been prioritized during the design process. Shared spaces consisting of study areas on each floor have been implemented, as well as central social areas where parties and dinners can take place. This was intended to make the residents not only feel welcome and safe, but to learn and develop under ideal conditions. This is how the future way of living as a student is introduced.

With more people in the United States renting now than at any point since 1965, there is an amorphous temporality in the dwellings of many Americans (Cilluffo, Fry, 2022). This provides flexibility and thus, more freedom for upward mobility, an enticing attribute for younger people living on their own for the first time. However, this lack of permanence can create challenges in establishing a “sense of place”. When residents don’t feel a strong connection to their spaces, they can feel as if they don’t belong. This issue is especially prevalent in dormitories, where a feeling of belonging is vital to student success (Strayhorn, 2019, p.217). These obstacles present a formidable design opportunity for architects to alter their existing planning and design of dormitories. This thesis explores the inherent power struggles dormitories present, as well as the shifting definition of “home” as both a space of belonging and a set of qualities imbued into a space. The goal of this project is to establish an understanding of the role of placemaking in temporary dwellings and discuss the difficulty one can face with creating a sense of “permanence”. and ultimately, to create a framework for designing student housing with a particularly strong “sense of place”. With a focus on housing solutions for university students who are currently experiencing both a shortage of on-campus housing, this thesis offers a set of guidelines for effectively designing student housing with a strong sense of place, with an emphasis on creating a sense of permanence in temporary dwellings.

Envisioning an inner-city student housing project, adding life to an office-dominated area, and offering a publicly accessible roof terrace and open landscape park. We are proposing a student housing complex, composed of two 355-metres-long buildings with two and three floor levels, respectively, lifted up on pilotis, with corridor rooms and student apartments accomodating a total of 336 students and thus creating a bustling hub of human interactivity. For the proposal, we claim a large strip of land in the southern part of the property “Kvarteret Garnisonen 3” in Östermalm, Stockholm; the southern-most 15 % of the 84 000-square-metre property, previously used as a launching space for ceremonial marches, but currently used mostly for parking spaces and dog walking. Designing the large-scale structure to house many students, with each contributing to the added life to the space, and encouraging human interactions architecturally, by retaining the accessibility of the ground level by way of pilotis, as well as making the roof terrace open to the public, and offering several alternative routes between the levels of the buildings.

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A residence hall is a temporary home. Yet, it can be the most impactful campus environment on a student's education and life. From lifelong friendships to retention rates, residence halls affect students as many experience their first opportunity to express their individuality and personal responsibility. No study can conclusively determine that one residence hall type is better than another. Rather, it is a hall's overall gestalt that determines student satisfaction and a positive perception of community. The question of my thesis explores how residence hall architecture can anticipate its role as an inspiring distraction to the individual that provokes interaction, engagement, and community as a building type that is not quite transient and not quite permanent. / Master of Architecture

How can architecture encourage and intensify a limited period of life? I examine this by composing an austere cell for living, focused on the interaction of materials, natural light, and human movement through specific distinct sequences. Casa Maderni in Riva San Vitale Switzerland serves as the starting point to receive the concequences of my design with: a new dining room, library, renovation of existing structures, but primarily a new living wing created at the rear of the property. I focus on the juxtaposition between the introverted private realm of the living cell and the public realm of the dining room. A series of spatial sequences through new and existing building parts is conceived as material manipulations to mediate connections at different scales, combined with the light and color to emphasize important architectural moments in sequence. This sequence of architectural momentss of public and private are choreographed at a larger scale in a master plan. Although silently assumed here, the role of architecture as a pedagogical tool can ultimately only be gauged through reality and human reaction. The architecture of Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Carlos Scarpa assisted greatly through precedence in my architectural descisions. / Master of Architecture

The major objective of this study was to provide a factual basis for formulating a married student housing program should such a course of action be undertaken by either private initiative or by the institute’s authorities. In attempting to accomplish this objective, the author set out to determine the extent of the existing housing problem as related to student and college growth as well as its implications for future housing needs. The determination was based on both the analysis of a survey questionnaire distributed to all married students and the analysis of V. P. I.‘s recent study on A Long-Range Building Program prepared for the Board of Visitors in 1959. The results indicated that in addition to the lack of adequate housing facilities and its burdensome cost to married students, little consideration had been given, by either the College or community, to the problems and needs of this group as well as its limiting effects upon College and community growth. The obvious implication was that student enrollment could not exceed available accommodations. Although the College, in the past, has been dependent upon the community to absorb its excess enrollment (to the extent of 35 percent of total enrollment), neither the College nor the community has made any realistic plans to avert the impending housing crisis. Based on an estimated married student enrollment of 20 percent of a total enrollment of 10,000 students by 1970 - 1975, there will be an additional need of 1500 new married students dwelling units. With the problem thus established, the question that immediately arose was: to whom and to what extent does the responsibility for providing adequate housing facilities for the institutional population belong? In part, this was answered by the student survey. But in order to establish a comparative and factual basis for determining housing responsibility, as well as to formulate a guide for recommending a positive housing program at V. P. I., a survey of college housing programs was initiation by the author. The results of this survey indicated that at least 85 percent of the land-grant colleges had a positive program for married students housing. In addition, almost all the institutions felt that the… “institution should attempt to furnish facilities not provided by private developers.” Thus, by evaluating, from different approaches, the housing problems, policies, and programs of both V. P I. and at other institutions, a guide towards developing a married students housing program was formulated. / Master of Science

The increasing attention to the provision of accessible, decent, safe and academically appropriate student housing in South Africa has led to a closer investigation of the nature and levels of quality in both on-campus and off-campus student accommodation. Nationwide, student housing management recognises that quality student housing is of great importance to both the quality of the higher education system and the success of students. In recent years, many studies in the field of service quality have been conducted within higher education. However, fewer studies have focused specifically on service quality in student housing. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the perceptions of students with regard to service quality levels in on-campus and off-campus student housing at NMMU, and to identify those service quality dimensions that need attention. A literature review was conducted to explore the meaning and nature of service and quality in student housing. It was concluded that from the different facets of service that quality, customer expectations, customer perception and customer satisfaction are important constructs in evaluating fully the levels of service quality. An amended SERVQUAL instrument comprising 41 items was used for students, in order to evaluate the service quality at on-campus and accredited off-campus student housing at NMMU. The results showed that there are significant differences in the service quality dimensions of on-campus student housing and off-campus student housing. Oncampus student housing gleaned a positive assessment for the dimensions of reliability, responsiveness, empathy and assurance. However, negative perceptions prevail with regard to on-campus infrastructural/tangible issues. The off-campus student housing fell short in a number of service-quality dimensions, including reliability, empathy, responsiveness and infrastructural/tangible issues. The assurance dimension received positive assessments for both on-campus and off-campus student housing. The study proposes that the NMMU student housing management pay attention to the shortcomings and make the desired improvements. The findings of this treatise have practical implications for student-housing managers, as they could direct their resources to improving poor service dimensions, and similarly refine marketing strategies, so that students’ needs are met in an exceptional and satisfactory manner.