Coed bathrooms in the coed dorms?

[Susan in TN]

Ds is in a co-ed dorm at his state university, but they are segregated by hall. I believe you have to slide your ID to get into each hallway, so I believe men and women are fairly separate for the most part. There is a small uni-sex multi-stall bathroom in his hall, and I'm guessing ds will avoid that one.

[J-rap]

I guess I'm kind of a prude because I'd at least like my freshmen-in-college children be on same-gender floors with same-gender bathrooms.  My daughter who is starting college next week will be in that kind of a dorm (mixed gender building, but same-gender floors), but it's the only one like it on campus.  One other dorm has co-ed floors but same-gender bathrooms.  All the other dorms are co-ed everything.  I don't really understand the reasoning behind that.

 

I don't think my kids feel too strongly about it either way, though.

 

 

[Artichoke]

 

In my son's dorm, the floors are co-ed, but individual rooms/suites are same gender. Each suite is composed of two rooms that share a bathroom. So, although the dorm is co-ed, he shares his bathroom with four other guys. 

 

It's the same at my ds school.

[happypamama]

Coed dorms but separated by floors or side of dorm. Separate facilities.

 

 

That's how ours were too. DH lived on the floor below me, and it was nice that if we were hanging out in each other's rooms, the bathroom was only one floor up or down. Since our dorm was coed, there were no restrictions on where and when the opposite genders could visit, except that males couldn't use the female bathrooms and vice versa. DH had some friends who lived on the third or fourth floor of an all-male dorm, and it was a pain when we would hang out there because someone would have to escort me or the one friend's girlfriend down to the only female bathroom, way down on the first floor. Girls in my code dorm didn't tend to wear much to the shower, just a towel, often, especially if they lived close to the bathroom doors, so for privacy, it wouldn't have been nice to have a coed bathroom.

[Trilliums]

We visited Grinnell where the tour guide said that each year students vote on whether or not to have coed bathrooms.  IF one student objects to it being coed, they go to single gender.  She didn't feel that students who objected to coed were given a hard time about it.  This was the first time I had given any consideration to the bathrooms at colleges.