Celebrating the Leavey School of Business Teaching Scholars
What is a Teaching Scholar?
Santa Clara's teaching scholar model is now a well-established distinguishing feature of Santa Clara University. This model, in its ideal form, provides a unique balance of opportunities and responsibilities for faculty. Teaching scholars do not have the same classroom demands as do faculty at institutions whose focus is primarily teaching. Nor are they faced with the publication expectations characteristic of major research institutions. Instead, empowered by appropriate support from the university, the college and schools, and the departments, they provide excellent teaching, encourage deep learning, and engage in serious and socially conscious scholarship. When this model is successful there is no compromise in the quality of teaching and scholarship. However, the quantity of courses taught and publications produced is commensurate with the demands of sustaining excellence in both areas.
-- (From: THE TEACHING SCHOLAR by Nancy C. Unger in collaboration with Diane Jonte-Pace)
The six academic departments of the School of Business are home to over 60 tenured and tenure-track teaching scholars who connect teaching excellence and scholarship. Faculty research appears in dozens of books and hundreds of articles published in influential professional journals across the disciplines.
Orradre Library has brought together these biographies of LSB teaching scholars to celebrate their contribution to teaching and scholarship excellence at Santa Clara University.