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Duke’s implementation of QuadEx in 2021 made clear the University’s vision for its future — a culture of belonging. 

KEARNEY, Neb.—The University of Nebraska’s Kearney campus will soon be adding a Greek Village to its student residential portfolio, and it will also provide more housing for UNK’s Greek community. When finished, this will increase residential living space from nine of UNK’s fraternities and sororities to all 12.

Turning a historically commuter campus into a campus community is more than a cultural shift; it’s also a massive infrastructure project.

The University of Utah is embarking on an effort to transform its 170-year-old campus by doubling on-campus housing—adding 5,000 new student beds by 2030. To reach that goal, the university will launch a public-private partnership, also known as a P3, with a company that can design, finance, build and maintain the new student housing.

These interior designers have built businesses off of Greek life, as sororities pursue million-dollar renovations to modernize their houses

Curled up on the couch in the traditionally decorated TV room of the Alpha Gamma Delta house at University of Kentucky in 2002, freshman Liz Toombs watched an episode of the reality show “Trading Spaces” that featured a sorority house redesign. “I didn’t think it was real, just that it was a made-for-TV moment,” she said.

There’s been a lot of discussion recently about pets, service animals, and companion animals, especially in property management and real estate circles. This is a hot topic when it comes to renting out your property in California, and you’ll need to be prepared to address tenants who have these animals.

My father was built like a linebacker and hollered like a coach. One evening in the late 1950s, I accompanied him as he went door-to-door to collect rents. A tenant called Schoenfeld—I only recall his surname—paid his rent reliably, but he was always a month late and he didn’t include the late fee. This drove my father “nuts.” That night, he unloaded on him. When I asked my father why he had to be so hard on Schoenfeld, he had a few choice words for me, too.

“Stevie, you’ll go to one of those pom-pom colleges,” my father said. “I graduated from the school of hard knocks. You’re too soft. Don’t be a wimpy landlord.”

A Samford University graduate has filed an appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court on a case in which he alleges Samford University wrongfully seized a fraternity house and never paid the house corporation run by alumni.