Living and Learning

摘要

Education, like fashion, is an environment where elements may go out of style but never really disappear. Instead, they are recycled in one way or another, finding new life in the hands of a fashion designer or educational administrators. Such is the case in higher education, as the idea of residential colleges is beginning to gain favor once again on a few college campuses. One of the more ambitious of these living-learning initiatives can be found on the campus of Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, TN. In 2008, Vanderbilt will complete the first phase of the first major rebuilding program in a generation, when the Freshman Commons opens on the university's Peabody Campus.