Transcript Seminar Two: Powerpoint on Scholarship

The Rhythm of Scholarship at SNC
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Scholars and Scholarship?
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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but
judgment.
James Russell Lowell 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people. Geoffrey Chaucer 1340-1400, British Poet
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Lao-Tzu BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Mohammed c.570-c.632, Meccan Spiritual Leader
The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
He plies the slow, unhonoured, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world's eye. Ralph Waldo
Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other
subjects merely require scholarship. Robert A. Heinlein 1907 – 1988, American Science Fiction writer
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to
your face. Leonard Cohen 1934-, Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer
Four Areas of Scholarship
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Peer-level research
Student-faculty collaborative research
Pedagogical scholarship
Grant writing
Getting Started
• Determine (re-determine) interest areas
• Find collaborators
• Be resourceful
Peer-level research
• Sabbatical
• Sabbatical
• Sabbatical
– Review of literature
– Internalized technology upgrade
– Access to instrumentation
– Rub elbows with collaborators and others
Student/Faculty Collaborative
Student/Faculty Collaborative
• Three levels of Student/Faculty Scholarship
• 1. Scholarship associated with course work or field trips
Results in local presentation of scholarship
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Scholarship associated with senior thesis or independent research
Results in regional presentation of scholarship
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Scholarship associated with senior thesis or independent research
Results in national or international presentation of scholarship
Pedagogical Scholarship
• We are professional educators
• Explore and share pedagogy
Scholarship associated with Grant Writing
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Internal grant writing
External grant writing
Community grant writing
Grant writing partnerships
The Rythm of Scholarship at SNC
Reflections from the Pleistocene
• Set a target for scholarship appropriate for you,
your field and SNC
• Keep two to three projects on the burner
• Recognize that some time intervals in your career
are better than others
• Did I mention sabbaticals