The Problems of UNP College Freshmen Student Boarders and Their Impact on their Academic Performance

Abstract

The study Investigated on the common problems of the UNP College student boarders in terms of conditions like: physical/environmental, social and psychological, as well as economic, and all those relative to their living quarters away from home. Focusing on College Freshmen student boarders,  attempted to assess the impact of their problems to their academic performance. House facilities and location of boarding houses significantly affected the students' academic achievement while structure and cleanliness/sanitation had no significant effect to the same. The relationship between boarders and landlady/landlord together with problems relative to policies and regulations of boarding houses significantly affected their academic achievement. Other conditions with significant effects were good services which were not usually satisfactory. Hopefully, this study assists the university administration in its formulation of student services for their welfare and development as well as owners/proprietors of boarding houses and dormitories for the improvement of conditions in these living quarters for the vetterment of students' academic performance.