In addition, the Strategic Plan of the college identified, as its first two goals:
1. Be recognized for excellence in integrative learning.
2. Create a student-centered culture built upon openness and collaboration
between faculty, staff, students and alumni. (McFeely College, n.d.a)
The researcher learned when he arrived on site that there were plans to change the
language of the mission and vision to replace the term “integrative learning” with
“experiential learning.” This change led to the addition of a previously unplanned
question, asking each participant to talk about both the change in terminology and the
change in meaning.