@fdgjfg : Hmmm…now that I think about it. Perhaps buy-in could be enhanced by having VU’s residential system but moving in the direction of somewhere like Northeastern (I think it is NE that I am thinking of. Emory has a “lite” version of it developing. It is decent at the freshman level but only recently have these expanded to future year programming)) where you have at least some themed programmatic options in the frosh reshalls and then a decent chunk of themed communities/programs can sustain themselves in residential colleges for upper-classmen (it would be like a hydbrid residential college/Living Learning Community type of system). Basically make a decent chunk feel as if they are part of a more continuous experience that may involve some more formal intellectual pursuits/options. This is often the problem of residential colleges or housing systems that do not fully achieve their goals. Lack of continuity or ability to adequately integrate the academic aspect (or at least getting the students to get involved with it). Places that put a lot of effort in the freshman accommodations are especially prone to this. The residential college system can solve a lot of this problem if there was a bigger “hook” that created more affinity towards the less I guess “social” portions of the programming in earlier years and then they can continue with similar programming later years…