According to the US Department of Agriculture and the National Cooperative Business Association, different issues will bring students together and motivate them to discuss their common needs:
Likewise, students must find ways to fulfill their needs as they study: (7)
The solution that marries the two is the student cooperative.
Source:
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/pub/cir29/cir29.html
Advising People About Cooperatives
Cooperative Information Report 29
Issued as Program Aid 1147 in 1976
Revised and superseded by Cooperative Information
Report 29 in 1983. Revised 1987, November 1991
(7) National Cooperative Business Association, 1401 New York Avenue, N.W., Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20005.