In 1827, Francis Wayland, then-president of Brown University, suspended the university’s medical program when the physicians on faculty refused to live on campus. Nearly two centuries later, faculty-in-residence programs have proliferated, and an online search yields dozens, if not hundreds, of university websites detailing programs that embed faculty in dorms. Though it’s hard to imagine anything further from the chaos of the 1978 film Animal House than professors and students living peacefully in the same dorms, many are actually volunteering to be neighbors.