Despite not being able to define or describe the role of student affairs with much
degree of specificity, several faculty members indicated a general sense of satisfaction
with the work of the student affairs unit, based largely on their own limited interactions
with that division or based on what they observed and saw from students. Eric Booher
offered,
what I can say, at least from my estimation, is that they are very involved and I
don’t mean that in a bad way; I don’t mean that they’re controlling or anything
like that. There seems to be a level of involvement with the students that I am not
used to seeing. I’ve been to three state schools where, you know, students come
and go and you don’t even notice. They’re puffs of smoke, you know. Here it’s
not that way.
Likewise, Roberta Waxman commented, “Well, they are working fine because, like I
said, you know students get all kinds of benefits from all the offices, you know, that we
have here.”