Ernest Boyer to Speak April 29

ERNEST BOYER TO SPEAK ON TEACHING, APRIL 29
     COLUMBUS -- Ernest L. Boyer, president of the Carnegie
Foundation for the assessment of Teaching, will deliver a free,
public lecture on "Scholarship Assessed" at 3:30 p.m. on April 29
in the Film-Video Theatre of the Wexner Center for the Arts on
The Ohio State University campus.
     The university's Academy of Teaching and Graduate School are
sponsoring the lecture as part of Ohio State's "Focus on
Teaching" project.  Begun in 1990 with support from the federal
Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary education, the project
promotes dialogue about ways to assure a strong emphasis on
teaching without sacrificing commitments to research and public
service.
     "It isn't teaching versus research.  It is teaching and
research.  At Ohio State, both are part of the same process --
learning," said President E. Gordon Gee.  "Ernest Boyer is a
distinguished scholar and teacher.  I can think of no better
person to address this timely issue."
     Boyer's widely read 1990 report, Scholarship Reconsidered:
Priorities of the Professoriate, stimulated discussions
nationwide about the need to better reward teaching.  His current
work, Scholarship Reconsidered, addresses the renewed attention
being paid to undergraduate education by focusing on the priority
assigned to teaching at colleges and universities.  He observes
that, for the most part, the current reward system favors
research and publication and that some critics are calling for a
better balance within the system.
     Boyer argues that the problem is not simply one of balance
among rewards for teaching, research and service, but one of
acknowledging the common ground of scholarship that is the
foundation of all faculty work.  In his view, vitality in
American higher education will depend on an enlarged concept of
scholarship, one that emphasizes "the scholarship of discovery,
of integration, of application, and of teaching."
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Contact: Paul Isaac, associate dean, Graduate School,
         (614) 292-6031.


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