I initiated contact with the campus Program Coordinators in order to provide a brief
summary of the study and the intended goals of the study. In doing so, I provided the Program
Coordinators with the identified participant criteria and ask them to identify four male and four
female students from each of their respective sites based on the selection criteria. With an
intended goal to secure six total interview participants and six total focus group participants for
the study, I requested a larger number (eight participants from each campus site) than necessary
in order to plan for any drop outs or unusable data (Merriam, 1998).