Dr. Barkman's Focus Group Notes (Fall - Winter 2010)

Barkman, Robert C. · 2010

This document has forty-three pages of notes taken by Springfield College faculty member Dr. Robert Barkman during December 2010. He was chosen to be the school’s Distinguished Professor of Humanics for the 2010-2011 academic year. In preparation for the spring faculty institute, Dr. Barkman hosted a series of focus groups with students and faculty. His notes from these focus groups are organized by session. Within the sessions, the notes are organized by questions, and under the questions are bullets with fragmented answers presumably verbally provided by students and faculty during the discussion. Some of the replies are highlighted in yellow. The different sessions are: no heading, new professors, psychology department, students, visual and performing arts with the chemistry and biology departments, social work department, social studies department, business office, allied health department, the physical assistant and rehabilitation faculty, exercise science department, school of human services, sports management, and physical education meeting.