Celebrate the scholarship & creative achievements of UWW faculty and staff at the 22nd annual reception and exhibit in the Crossman Gallery (Greenhill Center of the Arts)! The exhibit is open on Tuesday, Nov. 24. The reception takes place on Wednesday, Nov. 25, between 10:30 and noon.
Articles, artwork, books, and presentations produced by staff and faculty of the University during the period July 2008-June 2009 will be on display. Refreshments will be available during the reception.
This event is co-sponsored by the Chancellor, Andersen Library, Crossman Gallery, Office of Research & Sponsored Programs, and University Marketing and Media Relations.
As I was browsing my Facebook mini-feed, I noticed a link that a librarian friend had posted from the Very Short List about online scholarship. There has been a study done by James A. Evans, University of Chicago, and published in the July 2008 issue of Science Magazine that says that although the ability to access scholarly scientific literature has increased reach to a broader audience, it has also in turn caused scientists to continually cite the same studies. Dr. Evans utilized Web of Science, a database to which we subscribe, to analyze over 34 million citations to come up with his conclusion (taken from the abstract):
The forced browsing of print archives may have stretched scientists and scholars to anchor findings deeply into past and present scholarship. Searching online is more efficient and following hyperlinks quickly puts researchers in touch with prevailing opinion, but this may accelerate consensus and narrow the range of findings and ideas built upon.
Source: Lazy Minds (Very Short List) via Facebook
Study: Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship
James A. Evans, Science Magazine
Celebrate the scholarship & creative achievements of UWW faculty and staff at the 21st annual reception and exhibit in the Crossman Gallery (Greenhill Center of the Arts)! The exhibit is open on Tuesday, Nov. 25. The reception takes place on Wednesday, Nov. 26, between 10:30 and noon.
Articles, artwork, books, posters, and multimedia produced by staff and faculty of the University during the period July 2007-June 2008 will be on display. Refreshments will be available during the reception.
This event is co-sponsored by the Chancellor, University Library, Crossman Gallery, Office of Research & Sponsored Programs, and Photo/Graphics.
UW-Whitewater faculty and staff scholarship and creative achievements during the period July 1, 2006-June 30, 2007 will be celebrated on November 20-21 in the Crossman Gallery (Greenhill Center for the Arts). The display of books, artwork, articles, and more will be available on both days (gallery hours on Tuesday: 10am-5pm). A reception will take place on Wednesday, November 21, from 10:30 a.m. – noon. Light refreshments will be served.
This will be the 20th annual recognition of achievements from across the university. The display and accompanying bibliography include submissions from 22 academic departments (from all 4 colleges), four administrative offices, and the University Library.
The event is co-sponsored by the University Library, Crossman Gallery, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, and Photo/Graphics.
More information, and previous years’ bibliographies, are online at http://library.uww.edu/scholarship.html
While academia praised Ernest Boyer’s idea in Scholarship Reconsidered (1990) to abandon the traditional “teaching vs research” model, most campuses were paying only lip service. Tenure and promotion decisions are still based on traditional measures of research success: books or articles published about new knowledge, or grants won.
Western Carolina University has taken a major step to adopt Boyer’s definitions for scholarship. Broader definitions of scholarship will be used in hiring decisions, merit reviews, and tenure consideration.
John Bardo, chancellor at Western Carolina, said that a good example of the value of this approach comes from a recent tenure candidate who needed a special exemption from the old, more traditional tenure guidelines. The faculty member was in the College of Education and focused much of his work on developing online tools that teachers could use in classrooms. He focused on developing the tools, and fine-tuning them, not on writing reports about them that could be published in journals.
Read more at the Inside Higher Ed
Perhaps more campuses will follow suit!
