CADRE offers the following sites in order to stimulate conversations about scholarship. In doing so, we do not imply endorsement of any of these definitions or statements. We encourage faculty to seek out statements and helpful documents from professional societies and from favorite departments at other colleges. If you would like to add to these listings, please send information to crener@carthage.edu.

Sample Definitions or Scholarship Statements

Luther College Departmental Scholarship Statements
http://dean.luther.edu/departmental_scholarship_statements/index.html

Each department answers the following questions:
1. What forms of scholarship define the work of those in your department at their best?
2. What forms of peer review – including those beyond the Luther campus – are appropriate for that work?
3. How can you encourage and enable your colleagues to see that such work bears fruit in their teaching?
4. What depth and range of achievement in scholarship at the third year, tenure review, and application for promotion to full professor should distinguish the work of Luther faculty?
5. What distinctive forms of scholarship can thrive at a liberal arts college of the church?

Fine Arts

Position Statement of the Interior Design Educators Council, Appointment, Tenure and Promotion: a position paper on criteria for evaluation of interior design faculty in post-secondary institutions
http://www.idec.org/resource/position_statement.html

North Carolina State University
Department of Art and Design reappointment, promotion and tenure standards and procedures
http://www.ncsu.edu/policies/employment/rpt/RUL05.67.101.php

State University of New York, Brockport
Department of Art criteria for personnel actions
http://www.brockport.edu/acadaff/2006APT/ART.doc

Humanities

MLA Report on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion, Dec 06
http://www.mla.org/tenure_promotion

APA Statements on the Profession, Research in Philosophy
http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/governance/statements/research.html

American Historical Association, Redefining historical scholarship
http://www.historians.org/pubs/Free/RedefiningScholarship.htm

Buffalo State University, Scholarship and creative activity statements
http://www.buffalostate.edu/artsandhumanities/x693.xml

Natural Sciences

Scholarship Expectations
Department of Computer Science and 
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Grinnell College
http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~walker/csdept/scholarship-expectations.shtml

Mathematical Association of America
Guidelines for Programs and Departments in Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences
http://www.maa.org/guidelines/guidelines.html

“Chemistry Education Research” prepared by The Task Force on Chemical Education Research of The ACS Division of Chemical Education
http://www.users.muohio.edu/bretzsl/cerTaskForceReport.pdf

Defining the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Microbiology
http://cte.umd.edu/staff/spencer/Sbenson-SoTL-FOME.pdf

American Association of Colleges of Nursing Position Statement
March 1999
Position Statement on Defining Scholarship for the Discipline of Nursing
http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Publications/positions/scholar.htm

Social Sciences

“Redefining the scholarship of business ethics: an editorial”
Journal of Business Ethics v. 48, no. 1, p. 1-6
http://www.springerlink.com/content/k22072m3818632j4/

St. Olaf Sociology and Anthropology Department
“Statement regarding significant professional activities”
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/sociology/activities_statement.html

School of Social Work University of Missouri-Columbia
Criteria to be used for: tenured and tenure track faculty activity
http://ssw.missouri.edu/facultyres.shtml

Articles related to particular areas of scholarship

“Uncovering the Values in Faculty Evaluation of Service as Scholarship”, KerryAnn O’Meara
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/review_of_higher_education/v026/26.1omeara.pdf

Definitions of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
http://www.sotl.ilstu.edu/downloads/pdf/definingSoTL.pdf

Ithaca College Faculty Handbook Definition of Scholarship, using a separate category for the Scholarship of Artistic Endeavor

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Statement on Scholarship
http://www.uth.tmc.edu/ut_general/admin_fin/planning/pub/hoop/app_c/c_4_25.html
Note the section, “Evaluating and Rewarding Scholarship”

Articles about the general issue of redefining scholarship

Encouraging multiple forms of scholarship in faculty reward systems: Does It Make a Difference?
Kerry Ann O’Meara, Research in Higher Education, v. 46, no. 5, p. 479-510, 2005.

Abstract This article presents findings from a national study of Chief Academic Officers of 4-year institutions on the impact of policy efforts to encourage multiple forms of scholarship in faculty roles and rewards. The extent of reform, kinds of reform and influence of initiating reform is examined in four areas: expectations for faculty evaluation, the faculty evaluation process, promotion and tenure outcomes, and institutional effectiveness. The findings are also examined by institutional type. Findings from this study show that campuses that initiated policy reforms to encourage multiple forms of scholarship were significantly more likely than their counterparts to report that teaching scholarship and engagement counted more for faculty evaluation, to report a broader set of criteria used to assess scholarship, and report a higher percentage of tenure and promotion cases that emphasized their work in these areas. In addition, CAOs at campuses that initiated reforms reported a greater congruence between faculty priorities and institutional mission, and greater improvement in attention to undergraduate learning over the last decade.

Sources for More Information about the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Arizona State University Center for Learning and Teaching Excellence

Illinois State University, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Article, "The Scholarship of Teaching: What's the Problem?" by Randy Bass, Georgetown University

"'Scholarship Reconsidered' as Tenure Policy" in Inside Higher Education, October 2, 2007