“Residential College programs are typical features of many liberal arts colleges — it's sort of a House model, too, not unlike Hogwarts,” said Bryan Waterman, Visiting Associate Professor of Literature and one of the three inaugural FFIRs. “I like to think that we offer some of the features of a family otherwise missing at college: parental figures when you want them and, in our case at least, kids too.” “The [FFIR] program is intended to foster faculty-student interaction outside of the classroom setting, and enhance the intellectual environment within the residential college,” said NYUAD Associate Dean of Students Ken Grcich. “[It] provide[s] extracurricular links between faculty and students through activities and shared experiences that foster a sense of identity, tradition and connection.” “We as faculty will share our interests and passions and will act as catalysts,” said Puccetti. “I saw the FFIR position as the ideal way to continue and perfect a role that I feel I had informally and naturally assumed since I have been here.”