"In mathematics, statistics, and computer science, important new questions are always arising for scholars to address. Also, important old questions may gain new relevance and be amenable to new insights and methods. Further, engaged faculty provide important role models to students regarding the intellectual excitement and challenge of their fields. We believe that, to be effective over the long term, faculty must continually be engaged in their changing and expanding disciplines."

Several illustrative models:

• Scholarship of discovery [1]: e.g., traditional research project
• Scholarship of integration [1]: integration, organization, and synthesis — perhaps leading to a textbook, lab manual, survey article or edited anthology
• Scholarship of application [1]: creation of software, multimedia, or other materials
• Scholarship of teaching [1]: at Grinnell, this is considered to move beyond regular course preparation, possibly leading to publishing a lab manual, textbook, or other extensive work
• Consulting: particularly when work involves learning new areas, integrating ideas, playing a leading role in part of the research
• Collaborating: drawing upon extensive professional contacts in a range of investigations

To count as engaged scholarship:

• work requires active involvement, not just passive observation.
• conference attendance is useful for exposure to new ideas, but attendance need not imply involvement.

1. E. L. Boyer, Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate, a report for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1990.

created 3 January 2006 last revised 3 January 2006

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