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.
- FSCS is original work.
- FSCS often produces non-predictable outcomes.
- FSCS addresses something unknown that, through faculty-student interaction, becomes known.
- FSCS is a real collaboration between faculty and students requiring a “give and take” of feedback, expertise and ideas.
- FSCS is conducted for a sufficient time to allow a real connection between faculty and student.
- FSCS requires a high level of discipline-related or interdisciplinary expertise.
- FSCS is conducted in a scholarly manner with clear goals, adequate preparation, and appropriate technology.
- FSCS includes a reflective component that addresses the significance of the work, the process that was followed, and its outcomes.
- FSCS produces outcomes that go beyond just a grade.
- FSCS has significance beyond the individual context.
- FSCS is appropriately documented and disseminated.
- FSCS is reviewed by professional peers.
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