Crowned by a clock tower, the Academic Arts Community contains student residential rooms, offices for some honors faculty, members and staff, a library, computer center, and classrooms and seminar rooms where some honors courses are held. 

It integrates the learning and living environments in a manner similar to that of the residential colleges at Oxford and Cambridge in Great Britain.

All standard rooms within the Academic Arts Community come equipped with the following amenities (in a double occupancy room):

• two twin beds 
• two desks
  
• two desk chairs
  
• two closets
  
• two bureaus
  
• two windows with blinds
• high-speed Ethernet Internet connection
  
• free expanded basic cable TV service 
• 24-hour quiet study lounge in the David L. Boren Library/Lounge