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Scholarship March 29, 2017

“Integration of Teaching and Research: Myth, Reality, and Possibility”

The Wabash Center

Author
Weimer, Maryellen
Publisher
in Universal Challenges in Faculty Work (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997), 53-62
The prevailing notion of integration of college teaching and research is more myth than reality. To make the relationship more productive, educators must change the terms, redefine research, and reorient thinking about teaching, understanding that teaching and research are distinct and not automatically linked. Institutions must implement policies reflecting broader definitions of research and more intellectual orientations to teaching.