Bekurs, Gray. “Outsourcing Student Housing in American Community Colleges: Problems and Prospects.” Taylor & Francis, 16 Aug. 2007, naspa.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10668920701428402?scroll=top&needAccess=true#.XTsTO25FzZs.
This source goes into depth on how many colleges are turning to private foundations and corporations for their financing, construction, and management needs. This study is essential to include in my research paper because it shows how college campuses are turning to corporations to provide student housing which changes the orientation from public to private. This will help build the strength of my paper by allowing negative aspects of apartment complexes located in the Tallahassee area to come in to play. This source is similar to many others I have found since it is an academic journal that shows a study on information. This website appears to have little to know bias since it is a study done on the history of privatization and a look into the future of this strategy. The author of this study is credible because he is the director of commercial real estate and focuses on the development and management of university property.
“Features.” The Republic at Tallahassee, republic-tallahassee.com/features/.
This source shows what is included in the community known as “The Republic”. There are multiple tabs that are enabled when you select them including floorplans, location, features, gallery, and apply. This study is essential to include in my research paper because it shows the specific community and how they present themselves, along with showing multiple amenities that make this a golden place to live. This will help build the strength of my paper by allowing my information about the complex to be completely up-to-date and accurate. This source is different from all the others I have included since it is not an academic journal. I will not be taking direct quotes from it since it is not a piece of writing, but I will be looking at how this website corresponds to the living area. This website appears to have bias since it is essentially another form of communication to get information out to their clients. The company would not put negative aspects of the community on the website, so I will have to try to locate a source that shows both respectable and depraved qualities of this zone.
Lacey, Kylie. “Two-Year Students Face More Money Stress.” University Business, vol. 16, no. 7, July 2013, p. 18. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=95757527&site=ehost-live.
This source analyzes issue of financial stress related to community college student in the U.S. and discusses the findings of the report "Inceptia National Financial Aptitude Analysis" on the issue, which states that two-year students face more money stress as compare to four-year students. This study is crucial to include in the research paper since it is directly related back to the Tallahassee Community College (TCC). This will help build my paper since I am relating stress factors and living styles and including the apartment complex The Republic, which is located just a few miles off of TCC’s campus. This source is similar to the study “The Correlations between Anxiety and Money Management” because they both look at the financial impacts of these stressors. This article is open to bias since it is a discussion of the bad money allocations of each specific student. This source provides a graphic comic that shows the percentages of community college students and financial stress in a more vivid way than the other articles I have reviewed.
Laska, Melissa Nelson, et al. “Dietary Patterns and Home Food Availability during Emerging Adulthood: Do They Differ by Living Situation?” Public Health Nutrition, vol. 13, no. 2, Feb. 2010, pp. 222–228. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1017/S1368980009990760.
This source provides a study and information comparing dietary behaviors and home food environments by young adults' living situation. The study evaluated the difference between living with parents, renting an apartment/house or living on a college campus. The study relates to my research by providing another stressor that is common in an average college students life. This article does not seem to be biased and has been peer reviewed so the information does have multiple opinions. This source is different from the others I have found because it provides insight to multiple different living situations instead of solely focusing on one. The study was conducted properly and yielded results that were clear. The author is credible because she has a PhD and is a professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health. Her expertise is in equity, food and nutrition, public health nutrition, obesity prevention, food environment, food access, healthy food retail, nutrition policy, and food security.
Page, Randy M., and Michelle O’Hegarty. “Type of Student Residence as a Factor in College Students’ Alcohol Consumption and Social Normative Perceptions Regarding Alcohol Use.” Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, vol. 15, no. 3, Mar. 2006, pp. 15–31. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1300/J029v15n03_02.
This source analyzes the type of student residence as a factor in college students’ alcohol consumption and social normative perceptions regarding alcohol use. While this source may seem out of place, this study showed that specific living areas had a tremendous impact on the frequency of heavy episodic drinking. Many people do not think of the impacts this has on a college students social and academic life. This article differs from the others by directly related living situations to alcohol while the others are factors like residential burglaries. This article is open to bias since it is a discussion of heavy drinking which can vary depending on the age and sex of the students being looked at. Of the authors, one author is a professor in the Department of Health Science at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. The other author is a behavioral scientist with a PhD in the Office of Smoking and Health, Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. This makes both credible because of their high level of education in each field regarding this study. This source stuck out when it mentioned “Similar to other studies, this study found consistently greater risk for heavy drinking and alcohol-related problems among members of fraternities and sororities than among other students”. This correlated directly to the hypothesis the researcher made in the introduction of the study.
Robinson, Matthew B., and Christine E. Robinson. “Environmental Characteristics Associated with Residential Burglaries of Student Apartment Complexes.” Environment & Behavior, vol. 29, no. 5, Sept. 1997, p. 657. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1177/0013916597295004.
This study provides a different approach on environmental characteristics associated with residential burglaries of student living apartment complexes at two universities and one local community college in Tallahassee. In this study, Florida State University, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), and Tallahassee Community College are the schools getting looked at. This article will be used in this paper to explain how certain environments serve as inhibitors to criminal activity and how this impacts the business and safety of the student living communities in this city. Like the other sources I have found, this study shows how environmental factors impact a student’s potential living area. This article seems to have little bias and the evidence provided is well researched and performed. The author is credible to discuss the topic because he is a doctoral candidate and teaching assistant at the Florida State University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. The associates are also working on their master’s degree at the Florida State University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and the work has been peer reviewed, making this article a credible source for evidence.
SAGES, RONALD A., et al. “The Correlation between Anxiety and Money Management.” College Student Journal, vol. 47, no. 1, Mar. 2013, pp. 1–11. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=92757378&site=ehost-live.
This article shows the correlation between anxiety and money management. The results from this study indicate that anxiety has a significant effect on financial behaviors. This article will be used in this paper to elaborate on stressors involved in a typical college students’ life and how it impacts them to spend their money. This is a key source to put in my paper because it shows how some people must settle for cheaper housing because they cannot afford to keep up with the rent at higher end complexes. Overall, this could lead to living in an unsafe environment which can also result in additional stress. This study is similar to the other sources by showing environmental factors that contribute to a living space, but it takes the financial perspective instead of social factors. This article seems to have little bias and the evidence provided is well researched and performed. The author is credible to discuss the topic because he has a PhD in Family Studies and Human Services with emphasis in personal financial planning research and interests in behavioral finance, financial numeracy/literacy and risk management. One weakness of this study is that results were based on a sample that may not be fully representative of the broader United States population, which is a limitation involved.