Future of the Profession

Design That Makes Sense: Understanding the sensory needs of students should inform residence hall design.
by Takama Statton-Brooks and Jeanne Ross Eichler

When preparing to transition from home to their campus residence hall, students become involved in an intricate process that requires more than simple logistics. For some students in particular, it requires a level of awareness about the preferential components that facilitate both their optimal study and balanced living habitats. Housing professionals can make the process easier as they consider campus environments that are more in sync with the sensory preferences of residential students. Such considerations will become even more important as the neurodiversity of the college demographic increases.

(Talking Stick, July+August 2020)