The researcher observed, while on site and moving about the campus to conduct
interviews, that the location of faculty offices, which were generally within classroom
buildings, and the offices of the student affairs personnel, which were located in a
building connected to a gymnasium, offered little opportunity for faculty members and
student affairs personnel to encounter one another unless they were purposefully seeking
to do so. Further, while dining in the campus dining hall, it was the researcher’s
observation, limited by the fact that he was not, obviously, able recognize every person
and categorize them as a faculty member or staff member, that the faculty members he
did recognize appeared to be sitting and interacting with other members of the faculty
while staff, including the student affairs staff recognized by the researcher, either stayed
within their own groups or took their lunch to go.