Princeton University Press, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1990. If you ever searched for the words to explain scholarship in Extension, I've just the book for you. I see in Boyer's report a major catalyst for our ongoing attempt to make Extension a more understandable and desirable venue for academic toil.
Perceptions are reality.
These terminally arrogant academics are beyond our help. However, many unjaded and reflective toilers in the vineyards of academe remain subject to reason. Boyer finds many of our colleagues are dissatisfied with their professional life and the definition of scholarship they confront. He provides an explanation for much of this dissatisfaction and gives us new arrows for our intellectual quiver. He calls for broadening the conventional definition of scholarship beyond basic research.