While not being in a position of director makes me unable to speak for the Corporation I'm in as a whole, a lot of us are hoping that the Sovereignty changes will bring in new experiences for those of us in EVE University to have. Hopefully, the changes to Sovereignty and more developed sections of space means that we'll be able to cut out our own little patch of territory and reinforce it with newer capital ship pilots. With 0.0 space able to be experienced to its full extent, the University may be able to hold onto pilots for longer amounts of time and keep fresh faces with us for longer. While some of these new experiences for pilots would no doubt be rather painful life lessons (like running into a Heavy Interdictor at a gate), it would definitely provide a better bridge between high security with low sec romps to the rest of EVE Online. Now if we could just get around the issue of finding a fairly neutral patch of 0.0 space...