The Student Housing Matters blog explores ideas with leaders in higher education and the student housing profession. This is the place to find stories from those who have worked in the field for many years, podcast interviews, and videos about relevant topics in the student housing world.

It’s about matters relating to on-campus student housing, as well as why quality on-campus student housing really matters. We want this blog to serve as a forum for sharing ideas and insights about how your on-campus student housing can do things beyond simply housing students. How it can be used as a more powerful tool to recruit and retain students on your campus. We look forward to you joining us in the conversation.

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“Wanted…A Harvard for Skilled Jobs”

March 17, 2016

Great post by our friend and author, Jeff Selingo, regarding his soon to be released book, “There is Life After College.”  This post provides an introduction to the focus of his book: the need for more alternative schools and other options (versus traditional college route) for young, post-high school men and women to be equipped…

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Podcast | How I Got Into Student Housing – Amy Lorenz

March 9, 2016

The third installment of our “How I Got Into Student Housing” is an interview with Amy Lorenz, the director for Centennial and Falcon Heights at Bowling Green State University. If you haven’t been following this series, the episodes are designed to be a fairly quick look into how these housing professionals got into this field.  In…

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The Passing of a Man Who Forever Changed the World of Communication

March 8, 2016

Raymond Tomlinson is not a household name. Yet, the majority of households in the country, daily use a method of communication Mr. Tomlinson created in 1971. Email. Mr. Tomlinson will forever be remembered for his invention of email, as we know it today.  Also to his credit, is the way in which emails are communicated…

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Conference Season has Arrived!

March 4, 2016

The arrival of March marks the beginning of a busy spring, summer and fall full of opportunities for engaging with professionals and peers from around the country.  It is always exciting to peruse my conference schedules and see who I will get to hear as a keynote speaker, check out who will be presenting, and…

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On-Line Learning and the Rising Freshman

February 24, 2016

“Study suggests acceptance of online education still lags among high school students.” Interesting article from Inside Higher Ed about high school students’ perception of on-line learning.  It seems this cohort would see it as a “given,” but that may not necessarily be the case.    

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Podcast

Podcast | How I Got Into Student Housing – Michelle Smith

February 15, 2016

In the second episode in a series we’re calling “How I Got Into Student Housing,” we’re interviewing COCM employees at sites all around the country asking them what brought them to this field.  It’s a fascinating look at what makes people who work in student housing tick. In this episode we interviewed the Director Housing…

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Trust, Experience and Message Count

February 10, 2016

From The New York Times: New Hampshire Takeaways: Trust, Experience and Message Count The nation’s first primary showed strengths for Bernie Sanders and Donald J. Trump, and challenges for Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/us/politics/new-hampshire-highlights.html?mwrsm=Email Interesting article on the New Hampshire primary results. Great message for anyone or institution:  Trust, Experience and Message count.

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Cornish Commons Wins DJC Building of the Year

January 26, 2016

So excited that Cornish Commons, serving the students of Cornish College of the Arts, has been named Seattle Building of the Year.  Congratulations to the Capstone Development Partners team for developing such a beautiful building. Daily Journal of Commerce Selects Cornish Commons at Seattle’s Building of the Year

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Podcast | Considering Good Business Writing and the Flaws With How It’s Taught

January 25, 2016

Joining us on the podcast today is college instructor, and veteran business writing and presentation skills coach, Dr. Wilma Davidson. Dr. Davidson is an instructor of Professional and Technical Communication at the University of South Florida and author of the Third Revised Edition of Business Writing: What Works, What Won’t, published by St. Martin’s Griffin. Dr. Davidson spoke…

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COCM – a GREAT place to work!

January 21, 2016

In 2012, COCM kicked off an annual employee survey and we completed our fourth one recently. It started out as an effort to understand what all our employees, not just directors, think and feel about us a company. What it has become, is a way for our leadership team to quickly assess where we excel…

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