Here at FGCU, many students have concerns toward transportation and if a car is necessary while living on campus. There are many resources throughout the University that make it possible for students that do not have a car, to get around. The highly organized and preferred transportation is the campus shuttles that go around to every dorm village and pick up students to bring them to the campus.
On the FGCU website, there is a section called ‘Transportation’ that shows all of the opportunities students get to utilize. If not the shuttles, there is carpooling, bicycle rentals, and car rentals that are offered to students 18 years and up. Campus shuttles are used by the majority of FGCU students that live on campus. These shuttles are made so that students can have transportation other than walking. Although campus shuttles can be beneficial in many ways, there are some people who do not take the shuttles for numerous reasons.
Victoria Leeds, student at FGCU states that “I’ve taken the shuttle four times, but I rather walk to campus because that is the only exercise I get here.” She resides in the North Lake village and that is the closest dormitory to the campus. It was also said that it takes her 8-10 minutes to walk to campus.
Another student at FGCU who lives in North Lake village, Emani Feliciano, said that she takes the shuttle because “if I am running late and don’t have time to walk, I can hop on the shuttle and be in class within 5-7 minutes.” She said “as long as I
There is little space in the parking, so I'll find a new parking or start coming to campus by bus so that I am not late
SJSU also has 23 academic buildings and 7 residence halls are is continuing to expand (San José State University Map, n.d.). In addition, SJSU is considered a commuter school and offers park and ride shuttle access, accessible buildings, and VTA shuttle passes in order to assist students in public transportation (San José State University Map, n.d.).
FAU also offers a Residential Learning Community for students who live on campus and take on a full-course schedule. Students in this program have the opportunity to live and study with students, in Glades Park Towers, who share the same major. Students in RLC also have the benefit of using FAU’s Get Wise Center, located in the lobby of GPT, where they can get tutoring, advising, and career counseling.
Numerous studies all over the world have made assumptions about the academic performance of students staying on campus in residences and those who travel to campus every day. Some studies suggest that those students who live in campus residences tend to have an advantage over those who don’t (Peterson, 1975). The following review based in related literature will strive to be as thorough as possible about the chosen topic and problems.
College is one of the biggest stepping stones of life. For some, the transition can be rough. Many important decisions have to be made, one of those being housing arrangements. The decision to dorm or commute can change one’s perspective at college immensely. They are very different; dorming is not for everybody; commuting is not for everybody. Commuting and dorming differ in independence, money, transportation, and experiences.
Perhaps the rationale behind the lack of on-campus housing offered at community colleges, which is in stark contrast to that of four-year colleges and universities, is the fact that a large number of community college students live in the community, or the urban community colleges are situated whereby students may make use of mass transit means to get back and forth. This is how the system has always been designed, a single-loop approach. Conversely, if one were to apply the double-loop approach, which allows for organizations, in this instance the community colleges, to exercise more degree of flexibility and. It will further permit student affairs administrators to delve more deeply into their fundamental ideas, while meeting head-on some of the policies and challenges they face in developing new strategies in meeting the growing demands of the 21st Century community college students. This may also incorporate the systems theory approach in that it will allow the
I recently moved to Leesville, Louisiana from Park City, Utah. The college I was attending in Utah, Salt Lake Community College (SLCC), has a much different campus environment than the Northwestern State University (NSU) campus at Leesville. The average enrolled student body of SLCC is around 60,000 each semester. This semester, there are currently 248 students attending the Leesville NSU campus. That’s a big difference.
West Chester University’s ongoing attempts to meet the needs of the student body’s various demographics are commendable, but some areas and services should be granted priority due to their more numerous natures’ and relatively minimal cost. Some of the ones being readily addressed are the constraints of and accessibility to various academic buildings on West Chester’s campus. These include but are not limited to:
By making transportation easier for them, it would. However, Wayne State must decide on the method of transportation they could use in order to help their Canadian students. The proposed solutions in this document was developed from information obtained via research, such as, but not limited to, student surveying.
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The potential will be seen when faculty has the guest speak, connection, come and visit at the school. With the opportunity to have more connections means that transportation will be needed.
There are many benefits in going to UFV. Firstly, UFV is only fifteen minutes away from my home so I don’t have to worry about the expense of living in a dorm. I am also able to come home in between classes and relax or eat without worrying about buying food. Moreover, I can do my homework or study better when I am at my house. I do
But while students are parking on the grass at Motlow State Community College's Smyrna Center, where parking lots are full, some of the state's four-year campuses have a lot of empty seats.” (Mangan) I myself have noticed an enormous influx of new students attending Chattanooga state which is amazing because the more available education is to people the easier it is for our society to become
SDSU is best known for having a Spanish architecture, turtle pool, student union,bowling alley and sport team, no wonder why so many have decided to call SDSU their second home. Many will agree that SDSU is a very diverse school were students from different communities, states, and countries come together to persuade a higher education. Over the years SDSU has made major improvements around the campus to better assist students and faculty. In the more recent years, new buildings have been added and old ones have been changed. By doing this kind of improvements has allowed students, staff and people with disabilities to move more easily by providing several accommodations. As a result, people have better access to wheelchair ramps, disability parking structure,and elevators.
Moving in as a freshman is great. You are excited, everyone helps you move-in, and it goes by fast. Moving out after freshman year is another story. The move out process is tiring, no one helps you, and it takes forever. The young men who started Campus Crates felt these same feelings for move in and move out of college. Their solution to the problem was creating a moving and storage company that caters to college students. Campus Crates was started by two students both named Ryan after their freshman year of college at Baylor University. The company became an LLC in 2016 and started moving students that summer (Leland, 2016). Campus Crates’ goal is to make the lives of parents and students easier by relieving the inconvenience and expense of moving to and from college. Campus Crates is an on demand storage service that only requires you to register, pay, schedule a time for boxes to be dropped off, and then pack the boxes at your own convenience. Then they will pick up your belongings, store it in a secure facility, and then return your belongings to your new residence (Mycampuscrates.com, 2017). Although Campus Crates was established in 2016, their concept has proven to be successful.