In addition to this, most academic environments have the faculty assembled on the campus, but leave it optional for the students themselves to be gathered in a community of learning. RSA will have faculty that are local but also faculty that are remote (with on-site visits during the term). We learn best when we are in community. When we learn by ourselves, we get weird. When we combine the central purpose of the Arts to the life of the Christian with the community of the local church you have the blueprint for excellence in community.