Faculty Rewards: Can We Implement the Scholarship of Teaching?

An On-Line Symposium, Oct. 11 to 27, 1995

Co-sponsored by the Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the Chemical Education Division (Chem. Ed.) of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

ISSUES AND AUTHORS

The main issue to discuss is whether the scholarship of teaching should become an alternative to the scholarship of discovery (research) in faculty promotion and tenure decisions in higher education. This case was argued forcefully by Ernest Boyer in the Carnegie Foundation's 1990 monograph "Scholarship Reconsidered". The issue, however, needs to be debated openly and creatively by academics themselves. We have organized this conference to do just that.

Four authors were invited to submit papers on different aspects of the issue. These papers will serve as the starting point for our e-mail discussions. Each author is well respected in higher education circles for his past contributions to the educational literature. They and their paper titles are listed below: just click on the paper title to access the paper.

1. Richard M. Felder
   Professor of Chemical Engineering
   North Carolina State University
   "Who Should Teach in College" 
    
2. Lyle D. Feisel
   Dean of Engineering
   SUNY at Binghamton.
   "Scholarship Revisited - - A Reality Check" 
    
3. Michael Doyle
   Professor of Chemistry
   Trinity University, San Antonio.
   "Scholarship Reconsidered - Inherent Dangers in its Applications" 
    
4. Ivan Legg
   Provost
   University of Memphis
   "Integration of the Scholarship of Teaching into Faculty Roles and Rewards: Implementing a Task Force Recommendation"