Researcher: Um, you guys named several things, internships, study abroad,
research, service, leadership, um, which of those, all of those, some of those,
none of those do you see student affairs having a large role in?
Lambert: Well certainly the leadership is one area that we do a lot with the
students. When it comes to the internships and things, a lot of that is run
through our career services office, and there are some internship that are
offered in some various units to where students can get some experience but,
again, I don’t know that we’re a driving force in that. The, let’s see, again
whether or not, you’ve got multicultural affairs, it’s interesting because
multicultural affairs is part of academic affairs previously and just last year
moved to student affairs, and so trying address the diversity issues but I’m not
sure in the end, uh, how much of that will come out in the experiential
learning piece, but certainly it’s an important emphasis for the college. Um, I
think service is a piece that we work a lot in, the big question is, again, does it
meet some of the criteria or expectations as it relates to true service-learning.
That’s a conversation and a discussion that we’re still going through on that
piece. Obviously study abroad is something that is primarily coordinated out
of international programs but, uh, one of the things that we are doing with the
fall break trips, some of our athletic teams that do take international trips, is
trying to make sure that they meet some of the same standards that some of
the other for-credit experiences would have.