Rationale for the Choice of a Single Site Case Study
The single site case study approach was selected because it was the desire of the
researcher to explore the impact of faculty perceptions of student affairs personnel on
student development and it was felt that this could best be accomplished through full
immersion in a single site while documenting the culture of collaboration at that site
through analysis of institutional documents, interviews with faculty members, and
observational field notes. Merriam (2009) states, ”a single case or small, nonrandom,
purposeful sample is selected precisely because the researcher wishes to understand the
particular in depth, not to find out what is generally true of the many” (p. 224).