Nationally, the education industry's credibility is just about zilch now.  My money's on Motley's first post (pun intended).  Having lived in a dorm, being married to a woman who also lived in a dorm, and put three kids thru three different major public universities who got out of the dorms as quickly as they could (which we supported) who is kidding who?  If you ever hear the term, "current research shows" coming from anyone in the education industry, walk away as quickly as possible.