The researcher asked several questions in each interview that attempted to help
him understand the institution’s culture, especially as it related to the interaction of
faculty members and members of the student affairs staff. The researcher found that,
generally, there were very few structured or formal mechanisms in place for the faculty to
meet, get to know, or interact with student affairs staff members. Todd Collins, when
asked about the opportunity for conversation between faculty members and student
affairs staff, noted,
I would say a little. On a day-to-day basis if I were not going over there and
seeing them at lunch time about the only time I’d be interacting with them is
when I was calling them for something that I needed or vice versa if they were
calling me for something. Which doesn’t happen that often.
Eugene Darko concurred, “Mmmm, really they are very few formal, uh, avenues or even
venues for such interaction.”