concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: student housing cooperatives

instrumental communities
type: Concept
narrower: student housing cooperatives

student housing cooperatives
type: Concept
broader: instrumental communities
definition: A student housing cooperative is an organization of students who own and operate their own residence in a democratic fashion, following internationally recognized cooperative principles. Primarily a phenomenon on college campuses in the United States and Canada, student housing cooperatives are an outgrowth of the cooperative movement of mid-nineteenth-century Great Britain and the principles forged by the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World; Student Housing Cooperatives]