Posts about University Parking

In “Nine Things Successful People Do Differently”, psychologist and author Heidi Grant Halvorson writes that not only do we fear change, “[people] genuinely believe that when you’ve been doing something a particular way for some time, it must be a good way to do things. And the longer you’ve been doing it that way, the better it is.” It’s no wonder that universities have a tough time considering better ways of running their parking departments. In parking, as in life,… Continue reading →

Many college students, faculty and support staff would certainly find Clark Kerr’s words to be painfully true. The former President of the University of California once wrote, “I have sometimes thought of the modern [U.S.] university as a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.” Without a doubt, parking is one of the most widespread and frustrating problems afflicting U.S. colleges and universities. Rising enrollment numbers are one of the main reasons that so… Continue reading →