Faculty Engaged in Scholarly Activities

Coggin College faculty engage in scholarly activities in order to maintain and improve our intellectual capital, and to fulfill our individual and institutional responsibilities to add to the body of knowledge in our disciplines.  The majority of our intellectual contributions are discipline-based: they add to the theory or knowledge base of our respective fields, and often result in research results and theoretical innovations published in peer-reviewed academic journals.

About 25% of our scholarly endeavors contribute to and influence professional practice, and include articles in practitioner journals, creation and delivery of executive education courses, and published reports on consulting.

Faculty also conduct research related to learning and teaching, which influence the teaching-learning activities of the college, and include preparation of new materials for use in courses, creation of teaching aids, and research on instructional methods. 

All three areas of scholarship are necessary for effective teaching.  Faculty must first be content experts in their fields – meaning that discipline-based scholarship (or basic research) is the foundation of scholarly activities.  However, in order to achieve our mission of educating and developing business professionals, faculty must also be experts on how to disseminate and apply that content knowledge to and for our students as well as those already working in the various business disciplines.

In sum, we strive as a faculty to be experts at what is being learned, as well as how it is being learned and applied in practice.

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