Since the 1980s, there has been much discussion in higher education about the proper definition of scholarship and about the professional identity of faculty. The implicit assumption that research and publication in the disciplines are the most appropriate measures of professional achievement for all faculty members, and of academic excellence for all postsecondary institutions, has been increasingly called into question. Even in research universities such as Harvard, Stanford, and the University of California, Berkeley, where the mission of the institution is in great part to push back the frontiets of knowledge through disciplinary research, there is an increasing recogni tion of the importance of teaching. In two-and four-year teaching institutions, there is also a growing awareness that faculty need to seek intellectual challenge throughout their careers. We believe that such challenge may legitimately be found in many activities: through research in the disciplines through creative and scholarly activities, and through the systematic study of classroom teaching and learning