Faculty Priorities Reconsidered: Rewarding Multiple Forms of Scholarship / Edition 1

368 pages. No reform effort in American higher education in the last twenty years has be en more important than the attempt to enlarge the dominant understanding of the scholarly work of facult-what counts as scholarship. Faculty Priorities Reconsid ered assesses the impact of this widespread initiative to realign the priorities of the American professoriate with the essential missions of the nation's colle ges and universities: to redefine faculty roles and restructure reward systems. \n\nFaculty Priorities Reconsidered traces the history of the movement to redefi ne scholarship: examining the impact of the 1990 landmark report Scholarship Rec onsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate from The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and the decade-long work of the American Association fo r Higher Education's Forum on Faculty Roles and Rewards that initiated and susta ined much of the work reported on here. The struggles to move beyond narrow defi nitions of research, to distinguish between scholarly teaching and the scholarsh ip 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.