Promise and Possibility: Building Collegial Opportunities for Scholarship

The professoriate is a highly individualized endeavor where scholars work independently on projects oftheir choosing. High stakes issues of retentions and promotions require new faculty members todocument a public expertise in scholarship. In one sense, academics are scholarly gamesmen(Maccoby 1976)...

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Published in:Academic Leadership Journal 2008-01, Vol.6 (3), p.66-68
Main Authors: Lucey, Thomas, null, null
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:The professoriate is a highly individualized endeavor where scholars work independently on projects oftheir choosing. High stakes issues of retentions and promotions require new faculty members todocument a public expertise in scholarship. In one sense, academics are scholarly gamesmen(Maccoby 1976) who attempt to create a scholarly presence while interpreting their colleagues’patterns of actions and motivations. Such interpretations are created in an environment of "hollowedcollegiality" (Massey, Wilger, and Colbeck, 1994) where superficial evidence of active participationoften masquerades as community. For many new faculty members, connecting their work to a largercommunity of scholars can be an intimidating and lonely pursuit.
ISSN:1533-7812
1533-7812
DOI:10.58809/OVTR8233