X. Keuka College Definition of Scholarship
Scholarship is defined as activities which systematically advance teaching, research, and practice through rigorous inquiry that is significant to the discipline, creative, documented, able to be replicated or elaborated, and evaluated through peer review¹.
Scholarship is broadly considered to be “original work” that is somehow eventually communicated to, displayed for, or presented to the “community” at large. This “communication” can be in the form of publications, books or chapters of books, presentations at conferences, participation in workshops, performance, recitals, displays, etc.
In the “professions,” scholarship can also derive from the commonly required or expected clinical experience that practitioners must maintain and enhance on a regular basis.
Scholarship can involve original research by a Faculty member, working individually, in collaboration with others, or with students. Involvement of students in research is highly encouraged for the obvious reason that they themselves will thereby learn research methods and be able to become individual researchers/scholars themselves.
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- Association of Colleges of Nurses (1999). Defining Scholarship for the Discipline of Nursing.