The Rhythm of Scholarship at SNC

Philippines

Scholars and Scholarship?•

• 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

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Four Areas of Scholarship

• 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

2. Scholarship associated with senior thesis or independent researchResults in regional presentation of scholarship

3. Scholarship associated with senior thesis or independent researchResults in national or international presentation of scholarship

• We are professional educators• Explore and share pedagogy

Pedagogical Scholarship

• Internal grant writing• External grant writing• Community grant writing• Grant writing partnerships

Scholarship associated with Grant Writing

The Rythm of Scholarship at SNCReflections 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