The university is a place where students come to acquire knowledge and skills. It also is a collection of spaces where they can discover and develop their capacities to create and perform on a larger stage than family and neighborhood. Some of this informal learning is accomplished through living in a university community, where courses and curricula correspond to those at comparable institutions but spaces and places for informal learning vary widely. Here I analyze space and place at three universities, and in three study-abroad programs that expand spaces for formal education but vary in...