availability, represented a range of variability in terms of gender, academic discipline,
tenure at the institution, and tenure in the professoriate.
Names and contact information of potential participants were obtained through
working with the Vice President for Student Affairs at the case study institution.
Participants were invited to participate in the study via email from the researcher prior to
the researcher's visit to the case study site. In the initial invitation to participate, potential
participants were advised that their participation was voluntary. Further, they were
notified that they would be presented with a formal informed consent form prior to the
beginning of the interview. A copy of this correspondence is located in Appendix D. As
faculty members responded, an interview schedule was developed for the researcher’s
time on campus.