Toward a Scholarship of Practice: New Directions for Higher Education, Number 178

Ensure that your institutional policy and practice are guided by empirical research and scholarship rather than by mere common sense, trial and error, or a "shoot from the hip" basis for institutional action.

The two primary goals of a scholarship of practice are:
1. improving administrative practice in higher education, and
2. developing a knowledge base to guide such practice.

To attain these goals, campuses must use the findings of empirical research as the basis for developing institution...