I work at a university that's heading in this direction. Reason being is that our services are constantly being attacked. Putting them behind a firewall helps a

I work at a university that's heading in this direction. Reason being is that our services are constantly being attacked. Putting them behind a firewall helps a lot. You don't have to run the VPN when you're not doing school related stuff so i don't see it as a big problem and IT doesn't care what you're doing. Also, I'd wager that their VPN supports split tunneling so university related traffic is the only thing going over VPN.