Faculty Priorities Reconsidered: Rewarding Multiple Forms of Scholarship - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787979201 ISBN 13: 9780787979201

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2005

Synopsis

No reform effort in American higher education in the last twenty years has been more important than the attempt to enlarge the dominant understanding of the scholarly work of facult--what counts as scholarship. Faculty Priorities Reconsidered assesses the impact of this widespread initiative to realign the priorities of the American professoriate with the essential missions of the nation's colleges and universities: to redefine faculty roles and restructure reward systems.

Faculty Priorities Reconsidered traces the history of the movement to redefine scholarship: examining the impact of the 1990 landmark report Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate from The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and the decade-long work of the American Association for Higher Education's Forum on Faculty Roles and Rewards that initiated and sustained much of the work reported on here. The struggles to move beyond narrow definitions of research, to distinguish between scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teaching while acknowledging the importance of both, to encourage faculty engagement in meeting the scholarly needs of the larger civic community, and to recognize the importance of academic synthesis and integration--all elements of a broader understanding of scholarship--are addressed in this book.

About this title

About the Author

KerryAnn O'Meara is on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

R. Eugene Rice served as Senior Fellow at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Director of the Forum on Faculty Roles and Rewards (AAHE), and is now Senior Scholar in Antioch University's new Ph.D. program.

From the Back Cover

Faculty Priorities Reconsidered includes a distinguished panel of contributors
Talya Bauer
Dennis Bozyk
David G. Brailow
Victoria L. Clegg
Robert M. Diamond
Amy Driscoll
Gretchen R. Esping
Don Evans
Jerry G. Gaff
Catherine Garner
Judy Grace
Robin A. Harvan
Barbara DeVeaux Holmes
Mary Taylor Huber
Pat Hutchings
Diane Kayongo-Male
Steven R. Lowenstein
KerryAnn O'Meara
Bill Pepicello
Carol J. Peterson
R. Eugene Rice
Duane Roen
John Rueter
David K. Scott
Lee S. Shulman
Craig Swenson
George E. Walker
Kenneth J. Zahorski

From the Inside Flap

No reform effort in American higher education in the last twenty years has been more important than the attempt to enlarge the dominant understanding of the scholarly work of faculty what counts as scholarship. Faculty Priorities Reconsidered assesses the impact of this widespread initiative to realign the priorities of the American professoriate with the essential missions of the nation's colleges and universities: to redefine faculty roles and restructure reward systems.

Faculty Priorities Reconsidered traces the history of the movement to redefine scholarship. It examines the impact of the 1990 landmark report Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate from The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and the decade-long work of the American Association for Higher Education's Forum on Faculty Roles and Rewards that initiated and sustained much of the work reported on here. The struggles to move beyond narrow definitions of research, to distinguish between scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teaching while acknowledging the importance of both, to encourage faculty engagement in meeting the scholarly needs of the larger civic community, and to recognize the importance of academic synthesis and integration all elements of a broader understanding of scholarship are addressed in this book.

In Faculty Priorities Reconsidered the leading pioneers of the movement reflect on their own work with campuses nationwide and examine concrete issues involved in introducing new perspectives on the different forms of scholarship. In addition, the book contains studies of nine very diverse institutions Madonna, Albany State, South Dakota State, Kansas State, Portland State, and Arizona State universities, Franklin College, the University of Phoenix, and the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Each study tells a unique story of the struggle to change faculty work and its rewards.

This book offers practical advice to academic leaders considering similar changes and responds to questions for the future about encouraging, supporting, assessing, and rewarding multiple forms of scholarship.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787979201
• ISBN 13: 9780787979201
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: O'Meara KerryAnn, Rice R. Eugene