Scholarship of Engagement

—From Ernest Boyer's "The Scholarship of Engagement" (1996), Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 49, No. 7 (Apr., 1996), pp. 18-33.

I am convinced that . . . The academy must become a more vigorous partner in the search for answers to our most pressing social, civic, economic, and moral problems - and must reaffirm its historic commitment to what I have chosen to call this evening, the scholarship of engagement.
The scholarship of engagement means connecting the rich resources of the university to our most pressing social, civic, and ethical problems . . . Campuses would be viewed by both students and professors not as isolated islands, but as staging grounds for action. The scholarship of engagement means creating a special climate in which the academic and civic cultures communicate more continuously and creatively with each other.