ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case study that offers an accurate description of faculty culture at specific institutions and provides a broader understanding of faculty culture at for-profit institutions of higher education, IHEs in general by incorporating data from faculty participants across institutions. An examination of faculty culture at for-profit institutions requires an understanding of the institution and the roles of the social actors that make up the organization. Participants were selected by academic program and/or by department. Each data gathering technique plays an important role in exploring faculty culture. Data gathering tools such as in-depth interviews and document analysis, for example, provide insight into the unexplored environment of faculty culture at for-profit institutions. Document analysis refers to a specific type of qualitative research where data are generated through a variety of sources such as books, journals, public records, government documents, and other historical records. Qualitative interviewing is based on the concept of conversation as a data-gathering tool.
