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Undergraduate research as the next great faculty divide.(Reality Check)(collaboarative student-faculty research)

Publication: Peer Review
Publication Date: 22-DEC-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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One of the most dramatic transformations at liberal arts colleges and comprehensive universities during the past twenty-five years has been the increased expectation for faculty to generate original scholarship with publishable results. We have reached the point where many of us have a time a...

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...difficulty remembering when faculty did not embrace the "teacher-scholar" model. But of course this was not always the case. University priorities clearly have evolved since John Henry Newman wrote in 1852 that



a University ... is place of teaching universal knowledge. This implies that its object is ... the diffusion and extension of knowledge rather than the advancement. If its object were scientific and philosophical discovery, I do not see why a University should have students. (Newman 1996)

The trend among faculty to expand their involvement in research is accelerating as faculty at four-year and even two-year colleges have increasingly embraced this approach. To support these efforts. there has been a substantial...

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