Becoming a Teacher Scholar: The Perils and Promise of Meeting the Promotion and Tenure Requirements in a Business School

What is it about?

Most academics focus their research on their functional area of expertise. However many scholars also prefer to do research and to publish in the area of teaching and learning. An academic who prefers to focus on this area often has difficulties in achieving promotion. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the challenges of obtaining promotion for the teacher scholar and offers suggestions regarding how this challenge may be addressed.

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Why is it important?

This paper addresses an important problem that limits scholarly activities in the area of teaching and learning.