The emergence of the term public scholarship does not reflect a new
discipline, but a new commitment to rethinking the relationship between higher
education and society. This involves de-centering ideas of expertise and
authority which would allow the creative and thoughtful work of all people to
use the university as a site to produce, discuss, experiment, learn, teach. For
this week's CHOT series, I invite you to consider: What is the public scholar's
ethical responsibility to social justice? At what point does public scholarship
become exploitative? How is the university making the engaged scholar a better
community-based practitioner?
