Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, Volume 14, Numbers 2 and 3

Almost 14 years ago, after his keynote address at the Lilly Conference on College Teaching in Oxford, Ohio, Ernest Boyer handed me his draft copy of what became his book Scholarship Reconsidered (1990) -- a generous gift to a doctoral student writing her dissertation on alternative scholarships for graduate education. I was surprised at the time that the manuscript was not the previously announced "New American Scholar" book, which Boyer was to have co-authored with Eugene Rice. Ernie assured me that Gene would be publishing his part independently. In Scholarship Reconsidered, Boyer identifies four types of scholarship appropriate for the American faculty: Discovery, Integration, Application/ Practice, and Teaching.