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Faculty-Student Collaborative Scholarship

Faculty-Student Collaborative Scholarship (FSCS)

What is FSCS?

As part of their normal professional lives, Faculty at Baldwin-Wallace College, are actively engaged in research, scholarship and other creative activities. This may be research in the sciences, creative work in the arts, or intrepretive/applied work in the humanities or professional schools.  Our definition of scholarship is broad and includes creating something new through discovery, integration, application or teaching (see: Boyer E.L. Scholarship reconsidered. Priorities of the professoriate.  Princeton, NJ: The Carnegie Foundation of the Advancement of Teaching, 1990: 15-25).

Dedicated Students at Baldwin-Wallace College are naturally curious and this leads them to look for answers to many questions - some of which have never been posed before.  Through rational, empirical and other creative approaches, our students seek truth.

A special synergy occurs when Faculty and Students work together on a creative project.  The faculty member often brings many discipline-specific skills and experiences to the table and students may offer unanticipated creative insights as well as an invigorating energy.

The Baldwin-Wallace College program to encourage Faculty-Student Collaborative Scholarship is based in the knowledge that strategies that have proven successsful for creative work also enable student learning.  Systematic exploration of unscripted problems exercises all 7 of the core skills that we wish our students to possess.

The Mission of the Baldwin-Wallace College program in FSCS:

To encourage and support faculty-student collaborations as they tackle the unscripted problems typical of research, scholarship and other creative endeavors.  To facilitate deep learning as student-faculty teams examine,create,and share new knowledge or works.