Moreover, teaching requires a faculty member to devote significant effort to maintain professional skills. If one is to remain current, a faculty member must stay abreast of new books, follow current discussions in professional journals, attend academic meetings, and remain aware of new developments in the field. Fields of study evolve rapidly and methodologies change quickly. Scholarship Scholarship is a process of systematic inquiry that can include work in the library, laboratory, or field. It can consist of developing the design of a new study or analyzing previous studies or collected data.
Scholarship requires substantial investment of time before significant results are produced.
Scholarship at Wright State University is also closely connected with the teaching process, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. All educators seek to communicate to students not simply the facts, but also an understanding of how knowledge is discovered and applied. Indeed, this is the reason that our best teachers are often our best scholars, for the same excitement that motivates a faculty member in the laboratory or the library leads to the best possible instruction in the classroom. The third important component of a faculty member's responsibilities at Wright State University is service to the university, to the profession, and in keeping with Wright State University's metropolitan mission, to the local, national, and global communities. It is important to observe that many service activities also contribute to teaching or scholarship or both.