Interviewee: Uh, the two can collide in terms of what the different camps want
for the students or expect of the students. Student affairs is uh ultimately, it’s a
branch of entertainment. It’s in charge of looking after the students and their
well-being physical and mental, psychological uh and getting them involved
in extra –curricular activities, which is great um but that’s not the same thing
as what I do in the classroom and I don’t want the student to get confused, to
think that I’m a branch of student affairs, for example. Uh, the students have
some difficulty separating the two figuring out why isn’t class more fun, like,
you know, what happens with student affairs projects, um, and so I think
faculty have to maintain a certain line because here, particularly on a small
campus, we’re very, very friendly with the students.
This appears to be an outlying observation as no other faculty members articulated these
specific concerns during interviews.