Theme 2: Faculty members could not articulate a consistent definition of
integrated or experiential learning or co-curricular programming and seemed unclear
of the institution’s expectations of them with regard to responsibility for these
initiatives. The researcher also sought to understand faculty members’ perception of how
experiential learning and co-curricular activities were defined, what differentiated the two
terms, and who, at the institution, bore responsibility for developing, implementing, and
managing each of them. While faculty members were all easily able to speak about their
primary role and developmental goals, this was not the case when responding to the
researcher’s inquiries about experiential learning and co-curricular programming.
When asked to define co-curricular, the researcher received a range of responses
from faculty members: