College Town Life
College towns make great hometowns. Students, singles, families, working
people, and retirees all can find connections and a niche for themselves
in the wide variety of college towns across the United States. Town and
gown together create a better quality of life. Consider us your college
town guide book; a resource for College Town
Living ™.
CollegeTownLife ™
P. O. Box 223
Oxford, OH 45056
Robert Karrow, editor
Small house,
big purpose Elizabeth Parker, Dean at McGeorge School of Law in Oak Park,
has made a strong statement by living on campus
Bee - 11 Jul 2008
... SACREMENTO, CA - Dean Parker said she wanted to be visible, accessible
to students (out of a student body of 1,000, 200 live on campus), and
that she wanted to change the perception of Oak Park residents, some of
whom feel like serfs outside the McGeorge moat ...
Double
dose of good green news Harvard, Cambridge celebrate Blackstone, Switch House projects
Harvard Gazette - 21 Jun 2007
... CAMBRIDGE, MA - Harvard and City of Cambridge officials on Tuesday (June
19) used the penultimate day of spring to celebrate a double dose of sunny
news.
One item: Thirty-three new affordable housing units renovated from a onetime
utility switch house on Blackstone Street, near the Western Avenue Bridge
across the Charles River.
And the second item, right across the street: 46 Blackstone South. Just a
few years ago it was an underused urban eyesore - a 19th-century cluster of
buildings bounded by Blackstone Street, Western Avenue, and Memorial Drive.
Now Blackstone South, a consolidation of three buildings into one, is a Harvard-owned
office winning awards for environmental design.
The Blackstone renovation, completed last year, has received the highest
("platinum") rating by the U.S. Green Building Council ...
'Sustainability'
gains status on US campuses Arizona State University will launch the nation's first School
of Sustainability next month.
The Christian Science Monitor - 19 Dec 2006
... TEMPE, A. – sweeping the academic world is Walden Pond 101: the
art of living in a sustainable manner. Think environmental and social responsibility.
One of the best examples of the ivory tower's effort to tread lightly on
the land is at Arizona State University. Next month, ASU will inaugurate the
nation's first School of Sustainability - whose classes will look at everything
from water scarcity to urban air quality problems...
Most
Sustainable Campuses
University Business - Nov 2006
...NORTH AMERICA - When it comes to sustainability efforts on a campus, having
a vision is certainly a must. But it's the campus community that makes it
all happen.
Ruth Abramson, communications manager in the University of British Columbia
Sustainability Office, says the institution's achievements in this area "are
the result of thousands of UBC students, staff, and faculty actively demonstrating
their commitment to sustainability."..
The Worldwatch Institute maintains another list of campus greening profiles
that may be of interest to users of this resource. Campus
Greening
Can
hungry college kids save the farm?
Newsday - 24 Sep 2006
...HYDE PARK, NY -- An earthy abundance from local farms comes though the
loading docks of the Culinary Institute of America: sprigs of asparagus in
the spring, peas and beets in the summer, apples and squash in the fall.
The food _ much of it taken from the dirt the day before _ provides fresh
fodder from the Hudson Valley for the riverside school's five restaurants
and classroom kitchens. Just as importantly, it drums up business for the
farmers.
The culinary institute, which buys directly from about two dozen local farms,
is among the many colleges providing healthier choices for their students
while throwing a lifeline to farmers getting by on thin margins... Farm
To College
Greening
of the Campus VI Conference
Planetizen - 20 Sep 2005
...USA - Can a campus community become a "green" model for society as a whole?
Educators, students, and professionals meet at an interdisciplinary conference
to promote sustainability in education, research, operations and affiliated
service organizations.
Greening of the Campus VI Conference, Sept 15-17, 2005, Ball State University,
Muncie, Indiana
Valley's
greenest campus Low pressure street lamps on the University of California, Merced
campus are designed to be energy efficient and reduce light pollution.
Sun-Star - 31 Aug 2005
...MERCED, CA - The country's first new research university of the 21st Century
is also likely the greenest.
Planners of the University of California, Merced, campus say it was built
and will operate around the concept of sustainable development -- an eco-friendly
idea that growth can be maintained without depleting finite resources...
CollegeTownLife
Oxford, Ohio
In southwestern Ohio there's a college town where life seems more connected,
filled with opportunity and challenge, yet lived on a more fully human scale.
Discover Oxford Ohio's secret. Make the college town connection.
CollegeTownLife originates from Oxford,
OH home of Miami University a wonderful
small college town in its own right. Check it out for your home, business,
education or retirement.
Connect with culture and sports. Connect with education and recreation. Connect
with business and civic opportunity.
You also might consider Oxford when you're planning your next vacation
or conference whether you are a Miami alum or simply want to soak up the
atmosphere and offerings of a quintessential college town.
Residential colleges From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
A residential college system is a housing and educational aspect of certain
universities across the world, most notably Oxford University and Cambridge
University in the United Kingdom; Yale University, Rice University, and
the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Other universities
in the U.S. have recently begun implementing residential colleges as a housing
option, but at these universities 100% of undergraduate students are members
of a residential college. Princeton University has a residential college
system for underclassmen, but most upperclassmen leave their college to
join an Eating Club. It has recently begun implementing a 4-year residential
system more like that of Yale, but for only a portion of its undergraduates.
For extensive information on the residential college system see: The Collegiate Way
College Town Life
originates from Oxford,
Ohio, a wonderful, small college town in its own right. Consider Oxford
for your home, business, education or retirement. Oxford was named among
the "50
Best Places To Live" in the April 2007 issue of Men's Journal.
And Money Magazine said in July, "If you want to meet someone, settle
down and have kids, Oxford's
for you. Its public school system is considered among the finest
in the country."
Reverse migration
to college towns Entrepreneurs and urban professionals are discovering life in the
heartland. Are small cities the new economic cutting edge?
In Life 2.0: How People Across America Are Transforming Their Lives by
Finding the Where of Their Happiness, Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard
examines a growing shift in "executive class" people from metropolitan areas
on the coasts to smaller cities; including college towns like Bozeman, MT;
Des Moines, IA; Madison, WI; and Oxford, MS. These pioneers are looking for
more conducive business climates, a stronger sense of home, lower cost of
living and higher quality of life. Karlgaard believes that "small cities could
well outperform large cities economically over the next decade."
Single Family Home
$139,900
5 Bed, 2.25 Bath
2,556 Sq. Ft.
Best Kept Secret In Town! You'll love this brick Craftsman-style
5-bedroom, 1.5-bath home. There's lots of character with the built-in features
plus leaded glass, beveled glass, original oak woodwork, and wood floors.
French doors to sun room off formal dining room. There's a rec. room in
the basement plus a 3/4 bath and workshop. The attached 2-car garage has
a pit for working on cars and toys, plus extra storage. You'll enjoy the
covered front porch and great back yard.
Single Family Home
$159,000
4 Bed, 1.75 Bath
2,116 Sq. Ft.
Designed by architect Norman Rudi, this UNIQUE Platteville Treasure was
created for UWP Design Instructor Vern Thompson & his family in 1960.
Glass walls, cantileveired beams & ceilings, wood finishes from floor
to ceiling melt near seamlessly into wooded backyard through 2 Story Screened-in
Deck/Patio "Room". Brick fireplace & other features hint of
van de Rohe & Wright. New Roof 2008, just blocks from UW Platteville.
4 Bedrooms, 1.75 Baths, built-ins, sits on nearly 1/2 acre lot, near Westview
School
Single Family Home
$277,500
5 Bed, 3.25 Bath
2,892 Sq. Ft.
Premier Platteville Home. 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, fireplace
in the living room, formal dining room with BI hutch and display shelves,
dine-in kitchen, family room with fireplace, master bedroom with 3/4 bath,
two more bedrooms,. full bath, laundry and 1/2 bath and a sunroom plus a
deck all on one level. The second floor has two large bedrooms plus a full
bath. Beautiful brick home on a beautiful lot. This is a timeless home-built
for those who want quality and beauty.
Single Family Home
$325,000
4 Bed, 2.75 Bath
3,948 Sq. Ft.
Beautifully restored to preserve its antique charm. Built in 1856, this
stunning 4 bedroom home entails wood floors, formal dining, a modern kitchen
w/ island and built in cabinets, spacious living room and family room with
cathedral ceiling and two brick fireplaces, great for entertaining guests.
End your evening lounging on the oversized screened porch enjoying the fresh
air. Many recent updates include the water heater and furnace.
Submit information on a family home for sale to a new family in your college
town to the College Town Life editor.
Featured College Town
Plymouth, NH
Why
Plymouth Rocks A lively college town set amidst nature at its most serene
and situated in the geographic center of the state, Plymouth is a destination
with something for everyone.
New Hampshire Magazine - Apr 2008
... PLYMOUTH, NH - “It’s true that originally this was not
a destination spot, but that’s changed. Between skiing, the college
and the Holderness School nearby there are plenty of reasons to come here
now. And there’s enough stuff to keep you busy,” said Jeff
DeMoura, who with his partner, Jody Dickerson, moved to Plymouth from
Cape Cod in 2002 to buy and renovate a 19th century inn. The men sold
the inn last year to concentrate on their gourmet hot dog business, Junkyard
Dawgs — a hip hot dog emporium on Main Street that offers 30 different
toppings and delivers ...
“It’s a cute little place, a walking town, where everyone
knows each other and you don’t have to have wheels to get around,”
says Rosemary Earle, the manager of the Readery, a storefront used bookstore
whose plate glass window overlooks the town green. “I don’t
even live here, but this is where I shop and this where I know everybody.”
...
NEIGHBORHOOD
BEST PRACTICES STUDY Joint College Town Planning
Beginning in the winter of 2005 the cities of St. Cloud, Moorhead, Mankato,
and Fargo, North Dakota began a joint study that was to examine the Neighborhoods
Best Practices. All of the cities share a number of common issues and concerns
regarding their core neighborhoods. The cities jointly contracted the consulting
firm of Dahlgren, Shardlow and Uban (DSU) to conduct the study. The study
concluded with two memorandums and two slideshow presentations.
STUDENTS, FACULTY, STAFF, AND COMMUNITY CONVERGE IN SEARCH
OF LEADERSHIP FROM THE TOP
A 2005 Update in Support of
Campus Sustainability Day III
By Terry Calhoun, Anthony D. Cortese, and SCUP's Sustainability Advice and
Review Panel
Reproduced with the permission of the Society for College and University
Planning (SCUP), www.scup.org.
College
Town Redux
(.pdf format)
presentation by Robert Karrow, editor of CollegeTownLife.com at
Smart and Sustainable Campuses Conference November 3-4, 2005
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
Co-sponsored by EPA, SCUP, APPA, and
the University of Maryland College Park
Dorm
Deals Exploiting the College Boom
Forbes - 11 Dec 2006
...USA - Expanding college rolls mean big demand for private apartment complexes
to house students. Here's a study guide to cashing in.
The obvious ways to capitalize on the baby boom now revolve around things
like pharmaceutical stocks and retirement communities. A less obvious play
has to do with the children of the boomers now crowding college campuses:
buy apartment buildings in college towns.
The college population from ages 18 to 24 is now 9.5 million, up 20% from
a decade ago and possibly destined to peak only in 2010, according to the
National Center for Public Policy & Higher Education. Dorms and fraternities
take care of many , but 70% live off campus. Once distained by investors loath
to be landlords for latter-day Animal Houses, student apartments now are finding
their way into the portfolios of wealty investors, private equity forms and
real estate investment trusts...
Making
nice with the neighbours
University Affairs / Affaires universitaires- Feb 2006
...CANADA - Universities are an enormous asset to their communities, but the
presence of all those students can have a disruptive influence on the neighbourhood.
Both town and gown are starting to recognize the need to work together to
ensure we can all get along...
UBC
Starts Down Its Boulevard Of Dreams
Straight - 10 Nov 2004
...VANCOUVER, BC -The University of British Columbia's ambitious long-range
plan to remodel its campus along the lines of the world's great college towns
took another important turn in late October...
Historic preservation, walkability, affordability... college towns take a
positive approach to challenges.
This site presents the most extensive information available on a wide variety
of college town issues. Sources are gleaned from newspapers, web sites and
reference texts.
"Betting on educational hubs is smart in today's economy...across the US,
young entrepreneurs are making their buisiness ideas a reality by tapping
the resources and economies available in college towns." ...
Perfect
Places To Retire
CBS/The Early Show - 4 Oct 2005 That would be college towns. Reasons cited are plenty of inexpensive
entertainment and food and significantly more cultural events. Good health
care and low crime rates were also listed as college town attributes.
Small
College Towns ALABAMA
Livingston, Montevallo ARKANSAS
Russellville, Arkadelphia, Magnolia CALIFORNIA
Chico, Arcata COLORADO
Alamosa, Durango, Gunnison GEORGIA
Ft. Valley, Milledgeville, Statesboro, Americus, Dahlonega IDAHO
Moscow ILLINOIS
Charleston, Macomb INDIANA
Upland KANSAS
Hays KENTUCKY
Richmond, Morehead, Murray LOUISIANA
Thibodaux, Grambling/Ruston, Natchitoches MAINE
Farmington, Orono MARYLAND
Princess Anne MICHIGAN
Mt. Pleasant, Big Rapids, Houghton MINNESOTA
Bemidji MISSISSIPPI
Oxford MISSOURI
Warrensburg, Kirksville, Maryville, Rolla MONTANA
Bozeman, Havre, Missoula NEBRASKA
Chadron, Peru NEW HAMPSHIRE
Keene, Plymouth NEW JERSEY
Glassboro, West Long Branch NEW MEXICO
Portales, Las Vegas, Silver City NEW YORK
Potsdam, Fredonia, Geneseo, New Paltz, Oneonta NORTH CAROLINA
Boone, Pembroke OHIO
Yellow Springs, Oxford, Oberlin, Athens OKLAHOMA
Langston, Tahlequah, Alva, Goodwell, Durant, Weatherford OREGON
La Grande, Monmouth, Ashland PENNSYLVANIA
California, Clarion, East Stroudsburg, Edinboro, Indiana, Lock Haven,
Mansfield, Slippery Rock, Shippensburg SOUTH CAROLINA
Clemson SOUTH DAKOTA
Spearfish, Madison, Brookings, Vermillion TEXAS
Commerce, Alpine, Stephenville, Canyon UTAH
Cedar City VERMONT
Castleton, Johnson, Lyndonville VIRGINIA
Farmville, Harrisonburg, Lexington, Radford WASHINGTON
Ellensburg, Cheney, Pullman WEST VIRGINIA
Athens, Glenville, Shepherdstown WISCONSIN
Menomonie, Platteville, Ripon, River Falls, Whitewater
UK Releases 'Studentification'
Study 'Studentification': a guide to opportunities, challenges and practice
covers opportunities and challenges of housing growing waves of students in
off-campus neighborhoods.
"If you live in a college town (and that can describe a
lot of places, from big cities like Boston to small towns like Rolla, Mo.),
and you'd like to know more about issues that are unique to towns with gowns,
then you may want to visit College Town Life. This web site is hosted from
Oxford, Ohio, which happens to be a pretty nice college town itself." Civic Strategies
"...this site brings together a number of resources on
a very interesting topic: community relations..." Internet
Scout Project
It
Takes a Village — Charles Village — to Make a College Town
Johns Hopkins Magazine - Nov 2006
... BALTIMORE, MD - Some funky shops? A greasy slice? How about a little night
life? For Johns Hopkins students, a neighborhood boom might be just what it
takes to turn Homewood into home ...
"I tend to think of college towns as walkable, grid-layout neighborhoods
near a campus with a mix of building styles and ages," Karrow says. He
would expect a college town to have a business district with living space
above street level commercial; a majority of locally owned/developed businesses;
readily available arts and sports opportunities; a weekly farmer's market;
housing options for a mix of economic levels; and families, singles, and students
living in relatively close proximity ...
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Me,
a Dumpster Diver, in CosmoGIRL! Magazine?
Wesleyan University - 6 Aug 2008
...MIDDLETOWN, CT - This is the strange, but true story of how I ended up
in CosmoGIRL! Magazine's September 2008 issue. I'm involved with Freeganism
and dumpster diving. I've been dumpster diving for years and I also helped
organize workshops on it at Wesleyan for the annual Food Politics Week. I
work (and play) with a group of New York City activists who identify as Freegans
and who contribute to Freegan living spaces, events, services, and a popular
website dedicated to promoting Freeganism in the U.S., www.freegan.info.
Clemson
transit system to revamp bus service
News - 6 Aug 2008
... CLEMSON, SC - Tight money has forced Clemson Area Transit to discontinue
its Maverick express route between Clemson University and Central and has
spurred a revamp of campus bus service beginning Aug. 18.
"I am disappointed; I am frustrated," said Clemson Mayor Larry
Abernathy, a longtime proponent of the transit system. "I want to see
CAT grow, not shrink. I want to see CAT take more cars off the road. I want
us to be the greenest college town in the nation." ...
Student
housing booms in Adelaide CBD
ABC News - 6 Aug 2008
... ADELAIDE, AU - An influx of international students to Adelaide has sparked
a construction boom in the heart of the city.
The South Australian Government says the student numbers have doubled to
23,000 in the past five years.
It has prompted Adelaide City Council to approve eight new student housing
developments ...
E.L.
City Council looks to go greener Decreasing impact on the environment discussed at meeting
State Journal - 5 Aug 2008
... EAST LANSING, MI - The city of East Lansing is working on a package of
initiatives that could make the green-and-white college town a little greener.
Advertisement
The City Council last week discussed ways the city - home of Michigan State
University - could decrease its impact on the environment ...
Long-time
head of U-M cooperative student housing organization dies
News - 5 Aug 2008
... ANN ARBOR, MI - The man who guided the popular cooperative student housing
organization at the University of Michigan through three and half decades
was killed in an automobile accident Friday near St. Joseph.
Luther H. Buchele, 88, was the first director hired by Inter-Cooperative
Council, the organization that today oversees 19 co-ops which house 550 students.
He began heading the organization in 1951 and retired in 1985.
Buchele's tenure spanned periods of growth as well as tumult, according to
those who knew him ...
Boutique
clothiers roll with economic changes
Business Journal - 5 Aug 2008
... SPRINGFIELD, MO - Envy is “very, very trendy,” said Springfield
store manager Hayley Carlock. “We get everything straight from L.A.”
...
The 2,000-square-foot store at 323 E. Walnut St. will be Envy’s fourth
store, Mercurio said. The others are in Columbia, Lawrence, Kan., and Manhattan,
Kan. Envy targets college towns to reach its target demographic, women ages
18–30 ...
DePaul
University Named No. 1 College Town by Princeton Review
Blue Demons - 4 Aug 2008
... CHICAGO, IL - “It’s more than the nightlife,” continued
Fr. Holtschneider. “Chicago is on the rise, and we’ve taken advantage
of it at DePaul. We use the financial markets, courts, emergency rooms, recording
studios and more to teach students their fields of study. We connect students
to great internship opportunities and jobs, and hire faculty from top businesses
and law firms who can walk to their Loop classes. We’ve made Chicago
our classroom.”
All freshmen at DePaul are required to take a course called “Discover
Chicago,” in which they study a particular subject matter while also
learning about Chicago ...
SENTINEL
EDITORIAL: Beyond partying at UNH
Sentinel - 4 Aug 2008
... KEENE, NH - We spotted this short Associated Press story the other day,
seemingly bemoaning the fact that UNH didn’t make this year’s
list of the country’s top-ten party schools:
“DURHAM — The University of New Hampshire just missed the Top
10 in this year’s ranking of party schools by The Princeton Review.
UNH came in at No. 11. Last year, it was ranked seventh. The annual survey
looks at the opinions of 120,000 students. The University of Florida came
in first place.”
That’s all it said. But, despite the obvious importance of partying,
we got to wondering how New Hampshire’s public university placed in
The Princeton Review’s other areas of achievement ...
Volunteer
restores ‘Welcome to Schenectady’ sign
Gazette - 4 Aug 2008
... SCHENECTADY, NY — For years, Richard Olson has driven by the large
iron sign at the corner of State Street and Washington Avenue that says “Welcome
to Schenectady” and has been dismayed at its deteriorating condition.
“It was really an eyesore. It’s such a beautiful sign. I felt
it should be really addressed,” he said.
The sign, which features an iron silhouette cutout of the Stockade, was originally
erected by the Chamber of Schenectady County in the 1930s. It reads “Welcome
to Schenectady — Settled by Arent Van Curler in 1661, Burned by the
French and Indians February 8, 1690.” ...
Other officials like Metroplex Development Authority Ray Gillen said the
new sign fits in with the improvements in that section of town including a
$20 million student housing project across from Schenectady County Community
College.
Downtown Schenectady Improvement Corporation Executive Director James Salengo
said this restoration is a symbol of what is going on in the district ...
Brisbane
to limit crowded houses
The Australian - 4 Aug 2008
... BRISBANE, AU - CRAMMED student housing will prompt Brisbane City Council
to reduce the number of people allowed to live in a single dwelling.
Civic Cabinet is today expected to approve the change to prevent situations
where up to 15 students have shared a single house.
Deputy Mayor Graham Quirk said one house had a portable rental toilet in
the yard, while others were occupied by a dozen people.
Councillors are expected to reduce the number of unrelated people permitted
to share one dwelling from six to five ...
Dorms deluxe New private housing for students in York opens Aug. 15.
Daily Record - 4 Aug 2008
... YORK, PA - Developers who transformed an old industrial building in York
into apartments took care to save as many architectural elements as possible.
The new living space has exposed brick walls and 15-foot ceilings.
Original beams were saved where possible, and the hardwood floors were refinished.
In a couple of weeks, college students will start moving in ...
Out
of the dorms Developers rush to fill demand for off-campus apartments near
DU
Post - 4 Aug 2008
... DENVER, CO - Developers nationwide are looking for sites near college
campuses, said Craig Stack, a vice president in the multi-housing group at
CB Richard Ellis.
"Enrollment is going up significantly because of the echo boomers,"
Stack said. "Occupancies near colleges are increasing, and rents are
starting to go up. It seems like college students have an appetite for newer,
nicer apartments with better amenities." ...
AS
I SEE IT: Neighborhood life in Indiana Written by Kenneth E. Gabler, Indiana Borough Manager
Gazette - 3 Aug 2008
... INDIANA, PA - This is in reference to the Gazette's report on Indiana
Borough's Community Development Committee meeting published July 22.
While the article focused on the consequences of the "400-foot rule"
for residential neighborhoods, the common issue for all residents is the effect
student rentals have on the quality of life for families living nearby. Participants
were unanimous in their complaint about the negative impacts created by students
in traditional neighborhoods. The conflict in lifestyle between students and
families is the real issue that must be addressed.
Actually, the 400-foot rule is not even relevant to this discussion. Last
year, the borough adopted the Neighborhood Preservation Ordinance, which prevents
the spread of additional student housing in R-1 and R-2 districts by essentially
allowing only functional families as permitted uses in these areas. This law
may stop the bleeding, but in many neighborhoods, the damage has already been
done.
One approach to resolving this problem may be to simply sacrifice any neighborhood
with a large number of student rentals. In a sense, the borough has already
made this commitment in areas immediately adjacent to the university through
its "overlay zone," which allows high-density, student housing.
Hopefully, market forces and incentive programs will eventually lead to large-scale
redevelopment of blighted properties in the overlay zone. This student enclave
would be oriented toward pedestrian amenities and focused on student lifestyles
and student needs. More importantly, the overlay zone is separated from family
neighborhoods, helping minimize conflicts.
Ideally, the Neighborhood Preservation Ordinance and the overlay zone will
work in tandem to draw students out of traditional family neighborhoods, at
least to a tipping point where family values become the dominant character
of a neighborhood, rather than student lifestyles. In some cases, the conversion
of one or two student rentals back to family housing may completely alter
the "balance of power" in a neighborhood.
Therefore, the third leg of the borough's strategy for reclaiming our neighborhoods
has been to develop incentive programs to convert student rentals back to
family housing. The Elm Street Program is one avenue to encourage the revitalization
of our neighborhoods, and the borough continues to work on additional programs
that will make it financially attractive to buy student rentals and return
them to family housing ...
Tenants
react to possible takeover
news10now - 3 Aug 2008
... SYRACUSE, NY - “Nobody here is excited about moving. Nobody here
wants to move. None of our tenants that I've been speaking to want to move,"
said Townsend Tower Tenant Association President Roger Fletcher.
Roger Fletcher has lived at Townsend Tower for 12 years. Right now the building
only has about 95 occupied units and that already low number could soon dwindle.
Upstate Medical University wants to buy Townsend Tower and Harrison House
to expand its campus.
“The Mayor and the County Executive want to see a plan for affordable
housing and for replacement and growth housing ...
Student-hatched
housing business gets financial injection
ChicoER - 3 Aug 2008
... CHICO, CA - Business designed by students and initially focused on student
housing is enjoying a financial boost from Chico State University's Center
for Entrepreneurship.
Not only is it getting a $25,000 nod from the center, but All Rentals Network
partners Kris Rudeegraap and Jeff Schnepple are in a position to take advantage
of a universal housing problem in college towns.
Students who move to a new community for school often have trouble pinning
down the right combination of housing, location and price ...
Porsches
2 Oxford Breaks Attendance Records
PR-Canada - 2 Aug 2008
... OXFORD, OH - A record 390 Porsches made their way to Oxford, Ohio on July
26, 2008 for the fourth annual Porsches 2 Oxford event. The college town along
the Ohio-Indiana border drew cars from 17 states and Canada and increased
attendance by 54% over last year’s turnout of 254 cars. The uptown streets
were closed off all day and entertained thousands of onlookers enjoying the
expensive German sports cars.
“It’s a remarkable turnout,” said P2O Publicity Director
Chris Rieman. “We set a new benchmark last year and had concerns that
$4.00 gas and a sluggish economy would stand in our way like it has many other
automotive events this year. To see an increase of nearly 140 cars is most
satisfying and tells us P2O is a summer event attendees can’t miss.”
...
VOICES
Rebuilding campus
Minnesota Daily - 2 Aug 208
... MINNEAPOLIS, MN - The Minneapolis City Council’s approval on Friday
[July 25] of Doran Development’s plans to renovate the Dinkydome represents
another move by private developers to cash in on the student housing market.
Our reaction is that the plan, like others, is not in the best interest of
students or independent businesses around campus.
Doran’s founder, Kelly Doran, told the Star Tribune in December that
rental rates in the renovated complex would range from $700 to $850 per bed.
Pricey rates like that only add to the nightmares of the housing hunt for
students, many of whom are already crunched by rising tuition, book costs,
gas prices and a generally rickety economy. Expensive housing on campus forces
low-income student off campus, where cheap houses and apartments – already
hard to come by – are oftentimes managed by incompetent landlords who
neglect upkeep, compliance and the law in managing their properties ...
Packing
light ‘College town’ giveaway Friday
Daily Times - 1 Aug 2008
... If you’ve ever wanted to visit an Indiana college town, win a trip
to one this fall. Simply visit and click on the College Towns promotion. You
can test your knowledge of several of Indiana’s college towns by taking
a short quiz. Once you’re done, enter your contact information and on
Friday, winners will be picked. Here are the prizes you have the chance to
win ...
Student
housing a major challenge in Netherlands
Daily Herald - 1 Aug 2008
... PHILIPSBURG, NL - While securing housing for students continues to be
a major bugbear for the St. Maarten Student Support Services (S4), the Foundation
says it has managed to secure accommodation for all 81 students who will be
boarding a KLM flight for the Netherlands this Friday.
S4 Director Linda Richardson said temporary accommodation for students for
this weekend as well as more permanent accommodation has been finalised.
“We have had many unexpected challenges this year from various external
factors which we did not foresee,” ...
New
Student Housing at Park Eco-Friendly
Park University - 1 Aug 2008
... PARKVILLE, MO - The new student residence hall at Park University, which
will house 250 students in four-person suites starting this fall semester,
boasts an environmentally friendly design.
Copley Quad, designed by architecture firms Ellerbe Becket of Kansas City
and Sinclair Hille of Lincoln, Neb,, is LEED-certified, incorporating such
features as recycled content carpets, carpet pads and underlayments, landscape
that will not require an irrigation system, and exterior lighting that will
not create light pollution.
The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), developed by the
U.S. Green Building Council, provides a suite of standards for environmentally
sustainable construction.
The new dorms are designed with optimal views and natural light, and are
projected to provide 25 percent above the standards required by LEED. And,
the design includes plumbing that incorporates low-flow fixtures, with a projected
water reduction of 40 percent of a similar building with standard features.
Further, recycling stations are centrally located on all floors ...
Part two of a three part series on licensing HMO's has recently been launched
.This discussion focuses on the use of Occupancy Limits in Canada and the
USA to limit overcrowding of rental properties.
TownGown World has gathered articles and news releases from contributors
in the UK, USA, and Canada to discuss different approaches to licensing HMO's.
Near campus communities as well as their university neighbors will find this
an interesting read.
College Town Blogs
Kent
360
... KENT, OH -
Kent City Manger Dave Ruller's blog
15
Greenest Colleges and Universities Grist - Aug 2007
College of the Atlantic
Middlebury College
EARTH University
The Evergreen State College
Oberlin College
Harvard University
University of British Columbia
California State University, Chico
Tufts University
Leeds University
Green Mountain College
Yale University
Aquinas College
Glasgow University
University of Maryland
Harvard
Square's New Businesses Annoy Neighbors
Morning Edition - 24 Oct 2007
... CAMBRIDGE. MA - Harvard Square is no longer a scruffy neighborhood of
quirky, independent businesses. Locals are grumbling about chain stores ruining
the area. Harvard University, which owns a lot of the real estate on the Square,
is sensitive to the criticism and says it's not really justified.
Communities of
Opportunity: Smart Growth Strategies for Colleges and Universities In July 2007, NACUBO and Ayers Saint Gross released a publication entitled
Communities of Opportunity: Smart Growth Strategies for Colleges and Universities.
Institutions of higher education across the United States have adopted smart
growth strategies to help ensure that new growth and development meet the
institutions’ mission to provide high-quality education, support research
and innovation, and serve the community in which they live.
The publication, co-authored with the Environmental Protection Agency, begins
with an overview of smart growth strategies and then makes a four-part argument
for adopting such strategies:
Creating thriving, vibrant places helps to attract and keep the best
students, faculty, and staff.
Smart growth development patterns are a more efficient use of scarce
resources and are better investments.
Colleges and universities and the surrounding communities can work together
across the traditional boundary of the campus to solve challenges in mutually
beneficial ways.
Better development patterns allow colleges and universities to improve
their environmental performance.
What makes a town great to live in or visit? Each of the eight places we’ve
chosen to highlight this year are unique, yet they share many of the same
qualities. We’re not suggesting you quit your job and make a beeline
for one of these towns — maybe just learn from them to make your own
community more livable and sustainable. “The 20th Century was about
going, but the 21st Century will be about staying in a place worth staying
in,” says James Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere, a critique
of the current state of suburban living ...
Top
10 Most Popular Retirement Community Towns Announced at Topretirements.com
15 Aug 2007
OXFORD, OH - The votes are in, and the most popular retirement communities
have been chosen. Some of the winners are a bit surprising too – towns
on the top 10 list range from Florida to Nova Scotia, and Connecticut to Arizona.
John Brady, President of www.Topretirements.com, announced the winning towns
today. “This was an unannounced, online popularity contest among site
visitors to “Topretirements – Find Your Perfect Retirement Community”.
Every time a visitor viewed a town’s review page; that counted as a
vote. Those with the most online visits were assumed to be the towns that
active adults are most interested in learning about.” Visits were tallied
between January 1 and August 1, 2007 ...
Perhaps the most surprising choices included the small college town of Oxford,
Ohio; the historic coastal town of Old Saybrook, CT; and the northernmost
choice, charming Halifax, Nova Scotia. ...
EcoVillage
at Ithaca
Aug 2007
... ITHACA, NY - EcoVillage at Ithaca, located in the beautiful Finger Lakes
region of upstate New York, is part of a growing global movement for a saner,
more sustainable human culture. Comprising an intentional community and a
non-profit educational organization, the project aims to develop an alternative
model for suburban living which provides a satisfying, healthy, socially rich
lifestyle, while minimizing ecological impacts.
Our village currently includes two 30-home cohousing neighborhoods, an organic
CSA vegetable farm, an organic berry farm, office spaces for cottage industry,
an education office, a neighborhood root cellar, a warm-season grasses ecosystem
restoration project, a sheep pasture, and varied natural areas. Over 80% of
the 175 acre site is planned to remain green space, including 55 acres in
a conservation easement held by the Finger Lakes Land Trust ...
College Town Economics
101 Student Housing Planet studenthousingplanet.com A blog covering the national student
housing market - not exactly your father's Animal House.
For more student housing information. economic and otherwise, go to College Town Issues
Green (Pre)Retirement College Towns Call Us Back GreenGeezer - 6 Jun 2007
... USA - For at least two years we have been talking to our friends about
how we'd like to maybe move back to Bloomington, Indiana, where we went to
college. Many of them just don't get it, so we were glad to see that there's
a website -- College Town Life -- that's dedicated to celebrating life in
these great towns. What's more, Kiplinger's May 2007 issue features an article
on why college towns are perfect for boomers about to retire, or in "pre-retirement"
-- like us geezers ...
Take
Me Back
to Old Main
A wonderful article about SCUP's most recently published book by charter member
Richard Dober, Old
Main. If you do not have a Chronicle password, you can obtain a complimentary
one quickly on the page that will open for you when you click the above header.
There is an accompanying streaming
voice/audio slide show "tour" that can be viewed on your computer
without Chronicle registration.
Praise for CollegeTownLife from the
Society for College and University Planning (SCUP)
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 College
Town Life - Distinctive Destinations and More
Robert Karrow's College Town Life website continues to grow in scope and
sophistication, continuing to easily be the very best website about all
things "college town." If it's not on your bookmarks, it should
be. It's Distinctive
Destinations page lists college towns that are on the National Trust
for Historic Preservation's "Dozen Distinctive Destinations" Web
page, and also lists a number of Great Examples of Specially Created Neighborhoods.
Among those neighborhoods are: The Cotton District in Starkville, MS; Doe
Mill Neighborhood (New Urbanist) in Chico, CA; and Trinity Heights Faculty
and Staff Housing in Durham, NC. If these kinds of things interest you,
you should subscribe to the weekly College
Town News email digest.
"Witty
House Name": visual expression, interpretive practice, and uneven agency in
a Midwestern College Town.
Journal of American Folklore - 22 Sep 2007
... OXFORD, OH - Many students living in a college town located in the Midwest
of the United States have put up large signs on the houses in which they reside.
The signs' messages such as "Hangover Here," "Crammed Inn,"
and "Syc-a-College" create puns drawing on multiple domains of meaning
from student or local life, including locations, institutions, and popular film
or music titles ...
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