Scholarship Reconsidered: Implications for Hospitality Education

Abstract

Recently, the Carnegie Foundation released its report on American higher education, Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate (Boyer, 1990). The Carnegie report addressed significant issues facing today's college and university faculty. This article synthesizes the implications of the report for hospitality higher education and, at the same time, questions the current perspective of what it means to be a scholar. This article also deals with the importance of developing a cultural climate that supports a broader view of scholarship for hospitality higher education. Implications are that hospitality faculty can, do and should focus on integration, application, and teaching for thier scholarly endeavors. The organizational culture of acadame framework developed by Bergquist (1992) which includes collegial, managerial, developmental, and negotiating, presets an opportunity to develop and enrich a supportive climate to reward these efforts. The hospitality professoriate is an emerging scholar, but we are not there yet.