Also, note that “academic community” is more than just having folks live on campus together. The fact that they live together does not necessarily mean that they learn together(other than from ECs and non-academic social experiences). It matters much more what students are doing inside and outside of the classroom besides non-academic socializing. Things like frequent and sizable research symposium (for undergrads),academic events and competitions targeting undergraduates often function as forms of academic socialization that get students to discuss their research or scholarly ideas(or simply something cool they learned in a class) with each other. More informal venues for that are also effective (I hear the Commons is decent at that, but I haven’t heard much about this in later years and most schools struggle with shared experiences beyond the 1st year. Vanderbilt has themed halls and some specific types of learning communities for upperclassmen, so that is helpful). Many would also successfully argue that the design of various spaces determines a lot about how students interact and what they discuss (like if you put whiteboards in lots of relatively open spaces in buildings on campus…it will at minimum foster collaboration and will certainly set a more academic tone than otherwise in that space).