Faculty Development and the New American Scholar

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The author of this article suggests that to address the public's distrust of higher education, we must reaffirm the importance of teaching. He argues that a significant part of that reaffirmation includes a new notion of the American scholar and new, more complex, ways of assessing what that scholar contributes to higher education. He suggests that if we are to re-emphasize what teaching is all about and to help our institutions re-emphasize it, we must build communities in which teaching is supported and encouraged. A re-emphasis on teaching in all of its diversity and a new understanding of scholarship in all of its complexity can help us recognize what our mission is all about and help us find ways to support one another in doing a better job of teaching.

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