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Added Beneﬁts

what residence halls like to offer - a
that can affect their own day-to-day business.
Ronald Heifetz and Marty Linsky's Leadership
sense of community. Fortunately,
"Both social and economic trends must be
on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers
much of the structure to support
considered within business plans or strategic
of Leading: "Putting yourself on the line is
Converting a hotel into a residence hall
community is already present in a
plans of housing and residence life. Having
difﬁcult work. . . . Yet the work has nobility,
has many far-reaching positive effects.
hotel: lounge areas, conference rooms,
a sound understanding of the current and
and the beneﬁts, for you and those around you,
Hart found that the university became
kitchens, and recreation rooms. The
future economic markets as well as social
are beyond measure." As Marquez emphasizes,
a top choice among graduating
key is adaptation. Pool areas can
trends is imperative for an operation to
"This lesson should be demonstrated by all
seniors from local high schools. "We
be turned into exercise facilities,
sustain itself. Excellent examples of this are
housing professionals when handling crises
had several students say that they
ballrooms can become in-house
the economic factors over the past several
with the intent of maximizing resources for
had to choose between a few schools
classrooms, and banquet rooms can
years," says Komanski. For example, the rise
students and keeping them at the forefront of
and when they got their housing
become dining facilities. At OSU,
in tuition during a period of economic decline
all of our acts of service." TS
assignments and saw they were going
for example, the large pool area
has resulted in a corresponding decline in
to live [in the new residence hall], that
was converted into a much needed
enrollment, which has led to fewer students
solidiﬁed their decision to come to
multipurpose room, and a ballroom
living on campus, resulting in a decrease in
IUPUI." Part of the reason for this
became a dining facility. At the
revenue. "These are all dominoes and impact
is that these converted hotels offer
University of Wollongong, renovation
your bottom line and the services a department
amenities that many other campus
included the creation of "common
can afford to provide," says Komanksi.
housing facilities cannot compete
kitchen areas, to provide self-catering,"
Overall, explains, and responds
with,
Pennington how a campusthe hotel's to natural especially when it comes to the
disasters or to students' personal crises shapes per unit. At William & Mary, the
size
dining facility was transformed into
not only how the seats 460 and department students assigned to One Tribe
330
a dining hall that institutionstudents,
is the associate director of residence
Stacy Oliver
are perceived but also the students' by
life for student success at Lake Forest
with cooking stations presided over experience
on campus. Marquez refers to a point made in
College in
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