Scholarship and the Modern Professor

Overview

The idea of Scholarship as a concept is easily overshadowed by the pace and intensity of our achievement and assessment-based society. While Faculty historically fit the classification of Scholar, it is easy for this concept to be supplanted by the metric spaces of research, teaching, and service (or whatever metrics an organization might embrace). These metrics are useful for assessment, but not for definition of what a Scholar is (or what a Scholar does). Webster's 1913 definition for Scholar is One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant.. Thus, the true reflection of Scholar is a deep embedding of oneself into a discipline and a way of being that extends well beyond simply learning. Achievement of a high level of Scholarship leads one to an embedding of knowledge and understanding to an extent that is becomes difficult to separate the person from the discipline.

Stages of Development

  1. Apprentice
  2. Journeymen
  3. Masters/Scholars

Scholarly Methods [Wikipedia: Scholarly method]

Modern Complications to Scholarship

Common Assessment Metrics (of Faculty)

Misunderstanding of the Scholar/Professor

Scholarship is a Way of Life

Surviving the Assessment Metric Spaces

Examining the Metric Elements

  1. Research
  2. Teaching
  3. Service

Research

Research: Challenges

Research and the Scholar

Research: Reviews

Research by the Scholar

Teaching: Challenges

Teaching: The Scholar in the Classroom

Teaching: The Scholar as a Mentor

Service: Challenges

Service: Solutions

Make Room for Family & Social Life

The Modern Scholar

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