School of Business - ACBSP Accreditation Standards - Application of Boyer Model
Criterion 5.8.1. Faculty members must be actively involved in professional activities that will enhance the depth and scope of their knowledge and that of their disciplines, as well as the effectiveness of their teaching. The institution must demonstrate a reasonable balance of scholarly and professional activities by the faculty as a whole, consistent with the stated institutional mission.
To demonstrate compliance with Criterion 5.8.1, describe or explain:
the types of scholarly research in which your faculty members are involved;
the publications in which your faculty members have recently published; and
how you improve the balance and degree of faculty involvement in scholarly and professional activities that support the fulfillment of the institution's mission.
Scholarship is defined to include four types of intellectual activity. They are: (1) the scholarship of teaching; (2) the scholarship of discovery; (3) the scholarship of integration; and (4) the scholarship of application. These four types of scholarship are to be equally recognized, accepted, and respected, and the overall performance of each faculty member is to be carefully accessed and held to a high standard of excellence. Each of these types of scholarship is discussed further below:
The scholarship of teaching can be the most rigorous scholarship of all. It starts with what the teacher knows—teachers must be widely read and intellectually engaged in their fields—but teaching becomes consequential only when knowledge can be conveyed and is understood by others. The scholarship of teaching has to do with understanding how students learn in different fields. To be a good teacher means not just knowing the field, but also understanding and using the most effective teaching methodologies available. This includes the development of new teaching materials, development and evaluation of new methods of instruction, and the development of techniques to evaluate the effectiveness of instruction. Each of these activities must be documented and assessed. Documentation could include publications dealing with pedagogy and/or teaching techniques, participation in workshops and seminars devoted to improving teaching skills, written evaluations of teaching materials, and the development of outcomes assessment tools.
The scholarship of discovery is the closest to what is meant by the term "basic research." Freedom of inquiry and freedom of scholarly investigation is an essential part of higher education. The capacity to carry out the scientific method and to conduct meaningful research is an important aspect of learning. In institutions whose primary mission is undergraduate teaching, the dissertation or other comparable piece of creative work could suffice for this; however, institutions having research missions and graduate programs would be expected to have on-going research activities.
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