The Impact of Faculty Perception of Student Affairs Personnel
on Collaborative Initiatives: A Case Study
Matthew Stuart Peltier, Ph.D.
University of Nebraska, 2014
Advisor: James O’Hanlon
Sandeen (1991) and, later, Winston, Creamer, Miller, and Associates (2001) describe the
primary role of student affairs personnel as being educators. They further identify
collaboration between student affairs and the faculty to be a key way in which this
educational role is to be accomplished. However, there exists bifurcated understanding of
student development, with faculty being responsible for intellectual development and
student affairs professionals being responsible for psychosocial development.