The Scholarship of Engagement
The following excerpt is from the Tomorrow's Professor listserv post on the Scholarship of Engagement from May 23. The article can be viewed and comments made on the new "Tomorrow's Professor Blog" sponsored by MIT.
"In sum, the scholarship or engagement, therefore, is a set of activities. At its core are four dimensions of scholarship-discovery, integration, application, and teaching. It becomes the scholarship of engagement through its active and interactive connection with people and places outside of the university in the activities of scholarship, setting goals, selecting means and methods, applying means and methods, reflecting on results, and dissemination of the results."
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