Interviewee: I don’t know if they have a mandated role but I would like to see
more collaboration. Um, for example, I think there is a science floor in one of
the dorms this year, it’s a new thing. And, the biology and chemistry majors
that are living on that floor really like it. They are able to study together, it
helps their classes as well as their socializing and dorm life. Um, this idea of a
themed dorm, which the graduate school I was at had – I wasn’t living in them
but, the experience that worked in my laboratory while I was in grad school
they liked those themed dorms that I think we’re perhaps starting to try.
Researcher: Um, now the establishment of, like a science floor in the residence
hall, is that something that you were aware of in the planning stages or…
Interviewee: No. I really heard about it this year from the students.
Researcher: From the students?
Interviewee: Yeah.
Daniel Patton observed, “In general, I think there are some faculty members that don’t
even know who our VP for Student Affairs is or what goes on in [the Student Center] or
other places.”