Tuesday, August 19, 2008

The Impact of Rising Gas Prices on College Students

The current cost of gasoline is driving some college students to take online classes or to only drive to campus two or three days a week. In fact, some students are resorting to living on campus instead of having an on campus apartment. Read this article - Commuting Costs Helping Drive Demand for Campus Housing.

Here is a video about college students and the rising gas prices.



How will this affect the way that we deliver student services to our students? Will we offer more online services/commuter services? Will more students eventually move to on campus residence halls or apartments?What do you think?