Chapter 22Scholarship
The third critical dimension of choice for the traditional university is scholarship-related activity. Because our story of BYU-Idaho didn't show a university wrestling with issues of traditional scholarship, we'll delve into those issues more deeply here than we did the choices of students and subjects.
Along the dimensions of students served and subjects pursued, Charles Eliot's design for Harvard vastly broadened its scope of activity. By contrast, his call to have all subjects at their best ironically presaged a pronounced narrowing of university scholarship. The irony is that, in calling for scholarship at its best, Eliot did not necessarily mean just cutting-edge research. Though he admired the original discoveries ...
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