Attention to issues and questions that have broad relevance or implications. Projects that advance understanding of such questions are more likely to find audiences and outlets and therefore to contribute to thinking and practice. Explicit links to prior and ongoing lines of work. Like other forms of scholarship, the scholarship of teaching and learning builds on and is situated in reference to work done by others. A commitment to documenting and sharing results.
Scholarship is by definition public, available for review and critique.
Projects undertaken by Carnegie Scholars may well entail the invention of new forms, genres, vehicles, and media for preserving and presenting what is learned. This program is supported, in part, by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Campuses can continue to register for participation until June 2000. The long-term goal of the program is to foster a national network of campus teaching academies. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching , founded in 1905 by Andrew Carnegie and incorporated in 1906 by an Act of Congress, is an independent institution devoted to strengthening teaching and learning in America's colleges and schools.