Living on Campus Becoming More Commonplace at Community Colleges
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Fuse/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Community colleges are also known as commuter schools since the vast majority of students don’t live on campus. However, as U.S. News and World Report has learned, things are changing, albeit slowly.
Currently, one in four two-year colleges in the U.S. feature dormitories, with over 40 of these schools having added on-campus housing during the previous decade.
Erin Wheeler, a learning consultant with the Center for Academic Success at Louisiana State University, asserts that student engagement is the key to success, pointing to statistics at four-year-colleges that show students who live in dorms are less likely to drop out than commuters.
Wheeler added, “Living on campus provides students with opportunities and support they would miss if they were commuting and living at home.”
There’s just one caveat: if community colleges offers on-campus housing, meaning there will be students on campus around the clock, they should also supplement it with dining facilities and extracurricular activities for students that includes access to a gym.
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