Across the world’s universities, a quiet but consistent shift is underway in the Student Housing & Residential Education (SHARE) sector: the student leadership roles that once defined residential life — the floor tutor, the resident assistant, the senior resident, and their many close cousins — are losing their lustre.

Reviews such as this generate plenty of insights which could be applicable to other organisations with a similar profile of opportunities, challenges, resources, stakeholders or goals. Here are extracts of several of generally useful statements, and the final outcomes, to make them easier to access.

The benefits of a residential system extend far beyond fostering happy, persistent, and learning students. I categorise all the benefits of residential communities into just three 'parent categories.'

Here are four case studies for training purposes. Each of them has a unique history, context and set of pressing challenges that were realistic and reflected the diversity of providers in the student housing sector.

This is the story of how I went from wannabe sophistication to true sophistication in one particular area of my work: my use of student development models in education-minded student housing.