The joint work of Scholl and Gulwadi focuses on the enviornment of the college landscape and its effects on learning in correlation with students. The article makes the claim that students enrolled into open campus colleges tend to fare better then their counterparts, who are in the cities. As universities search for the best way possible to meet the demands of students for better accommodations and technological advances on campus, they are faced with the challenges of building spaces that meet the high expectations of the millennial student.

The environment of the college campus spands beyond just the outer parts of campus the lawns and big trees but even more so the classroom, as a student myself I know this best that we get bored in class and turn to our devices to text,snap, and filter through other social media sites. The authors believe that a natural space produces the best possible learning environment and can help eliminate the problem with students becoming distracted in class.

Scholl and Gulwadi claim on landscape and its correlation to student development has evidence as shown in the chart found near the end of the article. It has been shown that the intown campus has a adverse effect on the learning curve of students verses one in a more natural campus further from the city. As college campuses move more towards the naturalistic state even in the city, they hope to see a rise in student success and a decrease in student stress and anxiety levels.

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