and staff and faculty outside the classroom, where it’s not a formal class but
there’s still a lot of learning going on.
Albert Keene offered a similar analysis with some thoughts on how it might, or might
not, be accomplished:
That’s a good question [laughter]. It’s so broad it could be any number of things.
Um, in terms of the proposals the college is putting forward I think it is trying to
bridge the gap that sometimes exists between what goes on in the classroom and
what goes on in student life in the dorms. So that students feel that all parts of
their life while on campus seem integrated. There you go. So I think that’s the
general ideal. It’s a difficult thing to put into practice because it requires that you
have adults, basically, [laughter] who are going to devote time to doing it. So you
have to either hire a whole bunch of people who work in this kind of in-between
world. Or you could try and get faculty to do it, but faculty at small colleges, or
even medium sized liberal arts college, and we teach 3 and 3, that’s a heavy load,
there’s just not time.
There was some variance in faculty members’ response to the researcher’s
inquiries about responsibility for co-curricular programming. Most did connect cocurricular
programming with student affairs, or some unit within student affairs.