The Cinema and Television Arts Living Learning Community (CTVA LLC) is among the first of many partnerships that are the product of recent collaborations between the Department of Residential Life and an academic department on campus. This is also part of a larger process of the campus becoming a Learning Centered University, in our case, blending the academic environment of the university with the living environment of our residence halls. The CTVA LLC is, secondarily, a direct product of the work done by CTVA faculty members Nate Thomas, Temma Kramer, and Jon Stahl, as well as former senior CTVA student and resident advisor Ryan Orange. Together, with members of the Department of Residential Life, a CTVA LLC Steering Committee was formed during the 2003 – 2004 academic year to determine the general purpose, mission, and goals of the community as a whole, and was responsible for the creation of the community. The primary goal of the CTVA LLC is to provide cinema and television arts majors with a living community that promotes not only the furthering of academic and personal success through major-specific programming and development, but to provide those cinema and television arts majors a completely accessible location to produce projects in their field (TV, film, video, multimedia, radio) so that previously unattainable early experience could be gained utilizing all of the developmental programs that make up any living learning community.