Hello lists, I wrote too soon in my original message on this topic. I've found a case in which at least some college students living in on-campus housing were enumerated at the college in the 1940 census. I did a page-by-page surname search on Ancestry of the two EDs for College Station, Texas, where the then Texas A&M College is located. ED 21-18 is titled " JUSTICE PRECINCT 7, COLLEGE STATION CITY, AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE OF TEXAS, AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL." It has 26 pages/images. page 16, line 59 reads: "Here begins the enumeration of the College Y.M.C.A. and ends the Dining Hall employees." The first entry on the YMCA list was designated "head" in the "relation to head" column. The remaining 23 entries were designated "partner." The individuals were all men, all faculty or staff, and predominantly single. page 17: duplicate of page 16 page 18, line 4 reads: "Here ends the enumeration of the Y.M.C.A. and begins the enumeration of Milner Hall and Students with no place of residence." The first entry on this list was designated "head" in the "relation to head" column, "manager" in the "occupation" column, and "dormitory" in the "industry" column. The remaining 12 entries were designated "partner." The individuals were all men and single. All but two of the 12 entries had nothing listed for occupation or industry. As an NYC-ROOTS lister posted recently, "partner" was defined this way in the 1940 instructions to enumerators (http://www.archives.gov/research/census/1940/complete-instructions.pdf): "451. If two or more persons who are not related by blood or marriage share a common dwelling unit as partners, write head for one and partner for the other or others." CONCLUSION: Although the 1940 enumerator instructions stated that college students were to be enumerated in their parents' homes, the instructions were not universally followed. So, if you are determined to find a person who was in college in April, 1940, it would be wise to look both at the person's parents' address and at the person's college address. PJ Texas