After spending just a few months on the campus of nearly any major college, young students will come to understand that their place within University life is typically defined, managed and regulated by an “office” of student affairs or student life.

At most colleges and universities, the extracurricular experience is as strictly regulated (if not more so) than in-class academic time.

If the primary function of the university is academic scholarship, it strikes one as rather odd, indeed, almost perverse, that the life of the student outside of the classroom is as heavily regulated as it is on the modern campus.

The “other half” of a college education, that half that took place outside of the classroom that John Henry Cardinal Newman described as so vital, can only happen organically and naturally among students in peer-to-peer settings.

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