New neighbors: Some professors take up residence in student housing

Educators say a growing number of faculty are moving into residence halls as colleges seek to revitalize campus life and shift away from the utilitarian, high-rise halls that sprouted when enrollment soared in the 1960s. Having professors live among students is not a new idea--the tradition stretches back hundreds of years to colleges in Great Britain and was adopted in the United States in the 1930s by Harvard and Yale. The concept was largely ignored, however, as colleges ballooned in size when the baby boom generation began coming of age.

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