AAHE (American Association of Higher Education)

The AAHE has sponsored many initiatives over the years to advance teaching and its scholarship. Major initiatives include assessment, service-learning, peer-review of teaching and teaching-learning technologies. We highlight faculty roles and rewards below because its historic origin is associated with Boyer’s introduction of “scholarship of teaching.”

Factors Influencing What Faculty Do
Diamond, R.& Adams, B. The Disciplines Speak AAHE 1995 p.7

AAHE FFRR (Faculty Forum Roles and Rewards)

It was recognized at the time of Boyer’s 1990 monograph, that overhaul of the faculty reward system needed to go hand-in-hand with advancement of scholarship of teaching, if the latter was to be more than a transient topic. The FFRR has met annually since 1990 to address faculty roles and rewards.
Robert Diamond’s depiction of the factors bearing on faculty work reflects the agenda of AAHE FFRR. Initiatives have been undertaken in the 1990s’ to favorably influence each of the five factors in the figure toward greater incorporation of SOTL in faculty work.