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ORANGE — As Chapman University helps students move in this week, it will be housing 37 percent of its undergraduates on campus, while many more will spread out into rented rooms and houses in nearby Old Towne Orange neighborhoods . Within four years, the university expects to have 48 percent of its students living in dorms, one project away from meeting Chapman President Daniele Struppa ’s commitment to the community to get half of its students into campus-controlled housing and out of neighborhoods. For years, college life and neighborhood serenity haven ’t always mixed. The volume of residents’ complaints growing until Chapman paused expansion plans in 2015 to first address the friction. Struppa took over the reins at Chapman last year as neighbors’ frustration with parties, noise, parking and bad behavior peaked . He assured residents that getting more students into campus-run housing would be one of his first priorities. Chapman University bought property adjacent to its Pather...

As Towson University students prepare to head back to campus this week, university officials say complaints of loud, unruly gatherings near the campus are down by as much as 50 percent in some neighborhoods since the Baltimore County Council passed an ordinance to deter problem behavior . After numerous neighborhood complaints of public urination, property damage and excessive noise in residential neighborhoods, the council passed the Social Host–Unruly Social Gatherings ordinance in January 2016 to target problem landlords and renters through their pocketbooks. The two-year pilot, which was introduced by County Councilman David Marks , will expire in January. With a full school year having passed since the enactment of the ordinance, neighbors, Towson University officials and county police officials say it is working to curb problem behavior . Marks said he will seek reauthorization of the legislation. "I think it's having the effect we wanted and it's had, mor...

Students will be able to begin leasing University Village apartments this month, and the new residences will open in the fall. Leasing will begin before general housing signup in late March, so that students can plan accordingly if they don’t get an apartment. Of the 800 rooms available, 720 will be leased to undergraduates, 40 to graduate students and 40 to law students, following agreements made between the schools before construction began. As the agreement stands now, medical students will not be able to lease rooms. To sign up to live in the Village, undergraduates must have junior or senior credit standing . The longer the student has lived in on- campus housing , the greater the chance he or she will have to live in the Village. If the 720 rooms do not get filled after giving priority to these students, leasing will open to students that live off campus and want to move back on campus. The Village, which was estimated to cost $61 million last year, will have 41 one-bedroom, on...

EXPAND The new USC Village is dominated by dorms and apartments that will house 2,500 students — but it also has a Trader Joe's. Hillel Aron The University of Southern California has long been criticized for being an inward-looking institution, one that insulates itself from the surrounding neighborhoods of South Los Angeles . Its new expansion project, USC Village, is hailed for changing that. The 15-acre, $ 700 million housing and retail development brings a Trader Joe's to South L.A. for the first time, as well as a Target, with many other businesses (15 restaurants and nearly as many shops) to come — and with them, jobs. A recent New York Times piece lavished praise upon the development, which has its official groundbreaking on Saturday, saying the project "brings together one of California’s poorest areas and one of its wealthiest universities." Indeed, as part of the project, the university contributed $20 million to the city's affordable housing trust fu...

By the dawn’s early light, I searched the kitchen of Donald Trump’s childhood home in Queens for a coffee mug. There were none to be found, so I drank my coffee from a President Donald J. Trump Childhood Home insignia water glass and fixed myself a bowl of Wheaties from one of the five boxes on the counter. It had been a restless night. I had fallen asleep in the bedroom where, according to a plaque on the wall, “ President Donald J. Trump was likely conceived.” I awoke Sunday in the darkness feeling as if I’d been chasing a ghost. President Donald Trump in his childhood home in Queens." /> A cardboard cutout of President Donald Trump in his childhood home in Queens. Photo: New York Times. New York City practically abounds in presidential dwellings. There’s the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace in Manhattan, where young Teddie’s red velvet reading chair is on display. There are several unremarkable apartments where Barack Obama lived as a Columbia University undergraduat...

LEXINGTON, KY - EdR, one of the nation's largest developers, owners and managers of high quality collegiate housing communities , announced the opening of University Flats and Lewis Hall Honors College , the most recent phase of the revitalization of the University of Kentucky's on- campus housing . In 2017, EdR will add nearly $300 million in assets to its owned portfolio and deliver nearly $100 million in third-party developments."With the opening of University Flats, the University of Kentucky has completed the most comprehensive transformation of student housing in public higher education ," said Eric N. Monday, UK's executive vice president for finance and administration. "Working with EdR, we have constructed 6,850 new beds and nearly 200 active learning spaces to create a housing system that is singularly focused on student success through modern, technology- rich living spaces that foster a sense of community. At UK, we put students at the center o...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - The landscape of Youngstown State University continues to transform as University leaders joined city officials Friday for a ceremony to mark the start of construction on another major campus project . The ground breaking was symbolic as work is already underway on the Enclave, a first class student housing and retail project at Wick and Lincoln Avenues. As construction begins on this new project,  the first students are moving in at the Edge, another newly completed housing complex . Sharon Sanders says students like the idea of apartment style housing .  "My main thing was I was going to have my own bathroom and I didn't have to share it with about 40 other girls on a floor.  So that's what really attracted me to the Edge," Sanders said.     Both the Edge and Enclave are projects that YSU President Jim Tressel outlined in 2016 in a presentation called, Next YSU: A New Look for a New Era. Contracting with private developers for housing is a wi...

Austin, Texas, Aug. 22, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Campus Advantage® and Pinecrest have broken ground on a 197-unit, 489- bed ten story student housing community near the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Located on Forbes Avenue, The Bridge on Forbes fronts onto the main retail corridor for students attending both universities and is also located steps away from UPMC – Montefiore and Magee Womens Hospital in the thriving Oakland neighborhood of downtown Pittsburgh. The community will feature fully-furnished studio, 1-bedroom, 2-bedroom and 3-bedroom apartments and offer residents a walkable location to the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University campuses . Each fully-furnished residence will include a living room TV , dishwasher, microwave, high-quality range, quartz countertops, refrigerator, in-unit washer and dryer, cable and high-speed internet, all of which will be included in monthly rental rates . Each indivi...

Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 MARK ZARETSKY / HEARST CONNECTICUT MEDIA Officials from the city of West Haven, developer The Acorn Group and architect Svigals + Partners converse just prior to Thursday’s ribbon-cutting to celebrate completion of The Atwood, a 67-unit, four-story, mixed-use apartment and commercial building on Route 1. less MARK ZARETSKY / HEARST CONNECTICUT MEDIA Officials from the city of West Haven, developer The Acorn Group and architect Svigals + Partners converse just prior to Thursday’s ribbon-cutting to celebrate ... more Atwood development officially declared open in West Haven Back to Gallery WEST HAVEN >> Some residents already had moved in to The Atwood, a 67-unit, four-story, mixed-use apartment and commercial building on Route 1 — the first completed component of The Acorn Group’s ambitious University Commons project — when officials gathered Thursday to cut a celebratory ribbon to declare it open. They began moving in on Aug. 1. Addi...

federal loans withdrew from Georgia’s public colleges and universities between 2013 and 2015. Photo by bearsky23/via Adobe" width="689" height="402" class="size-large wp-image-225431" /> More than 108,000 students who had taken out federal loans withdrew from Georgia’s public colleges and universities between 2013 and 2015. Photo by bearsky23/via Adobe ATLANTA – Alduha Leon and Jared Sanders, roommates at Savannah State University , dined on hot dogs in their apartment on Thanksgiving Day of their sophomore year. They had decided to skip feasting with family in Atlanta to pick up extra hours at their airport jobs loading luggage onto planes. Payday wasn’t until Friday, though, and Leon only had $5 left on his food stamps card . During the three years they spent at Savannah State , Sanders and Leon struggled to pay their tuition, fees and living expenses. They accumulated more than $50,000 in loans between the two of them, despite working up t...