The engaged scholar : expanding the impact of academic research in today's world / Andrew J. Hoffman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffman, Andrew J., 1961- author.

Contributor:

Frances Baylinson Rosenbluth Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Political aspects.

Education, Higher.

Research--Political aspects.

Research.

Learning and scholarship--Political aspects.

Learning and scholarship.

College teachers--Political activity.

College teachers.

Scholars--Political activity.

Scholars.

Communication in learning and scholarship.

Political participation.

Physical Description:

xv, 166 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact. Rigorous analysis of facts, the hard boundary between truth and opinion, and fidelity to reputable sources of factual information are all in alarming decline. A 2018 report published by the RAND Corporation lay the challenge of fixing this "truth decay" at the door of the academy, but, as Andrew J. Hoffman points out, academia is prevented from carrying this out due to its own existential crisis--a crisis of relevance. Scholarship rarely moves very far beyond the walls of the academy, and is certainly not accessing the primarily civic spaces it needs to be in in order to mitigate truth corruption. In this brief but compelling book, Hoffman draws upon existing literature and personal experience to bring attention to the problematic of academic insularity--where it comes from and where, if left to grow unchecked, it will go--and argues for the emergence of a more publicly and politically engaged scholar. This book is a call to make that path toward public engagement more acceptable and legitimate for those who do; to enlarge the tent to be inclusive of multiple ways that one enacts the role of academic scholar in today's world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Engaged Scholar

2. Limitations of the Academic Reward System

3. The Rules of Engagement

4. The Scholarly Uses of Social Media

5. Engagement and the Arc of Your Career.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Frances Baylinson Rosenbluth Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Hoffman, Andrew J., 1961- The engaged scholar.

ISBN:

9781503614819

1503614816

OCLC:

1202743798

Publisher Number:

99988356586