He went on to describe some of his own experiences from his time as a faculty member at
another institution related to attempts at student affairs and academic affairs partnerships:
And one of the reasons these things fail, I’ll say this, it was a frustration of mine
all through when I was just a faculty member before I began to assume
administrative roles, is that often times student affairs, this is my experience at
[previous institution], would invite faculty to these things that they were having in
the hopes that somehow there’d be some sort of connection between faculty and
students and yet the role the faculty member was supposed to play, the
expectations that student affairs had for what it was that was supposed to come
out of all this was never stated and so it didn’t work very well and faculty felt
misused and they felt, you know, alienated by it, and so on. And I think that’s
partly a reflection that faculty were outside of their comfort zone and it wasn’t
clear what they were supposed to be doing with these students.