Publishing at BYU Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Lecture

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Publishing at BYUPhi Kappa Phi Faculty Lecture
Grant McQueen November 15, 2007
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Publishing at BYU
Scholarly research and creative endeavor among
both faculty and students are essential and
will be encouraged.

BYU Mission Statement, Approved by the BYU Board
of Trustees, November 4, 1981
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BYU Institutional Objective 2 Advance truth
and knowledge.

It is my firm opinion that a major university
must contribute to the worlds storehouse of
knowledge.
President Samuelson, Institutional Objectives,
BYU Homepage
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Why Publish?
Builds Reputation Serves Man Enhances
Teaching Fosters Fun Counters Ignorance Is
Eternal
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Builds Reputation
Id rub my tummy and pat my head.
Hal Heaton, BYU Finance Professor
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Builds Reputation
B-School Rankings

• 1st MBA, Wall Street Journal
• (among regional programs in the country)
• 1st Accounting, Financial Times
• 3rd Accounting, U.S. News
• 8th Undergraduate management, accounting, and
  info systems, BusinessWeek
• 18th MBA overall, Forbes

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Builds Reputation
We cannot let the world condemn our value system
by pointing to our professional mediocrity.
Elder Neal A. Maxwell
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Enhances Teaching
High quality faculty scholarship and creative
work are essential if we are to have a first-rate
teaching institution.
Bruce C. Hafen, All Those Books, and the Spirit
Too
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Enhances Teaching
As long as a professor can fulfill the measure
of his existence by pontificating before a room
full of adolescents, warming chairs in committee
rooms and dozing at meeting without ever having
to pass muster before a competent board of
editors, a man is bound to abuse his security by
the relaxing of scholarly standards. The trouble
with not publishing is that it is just too
easynothing is easier, in fact, than not to
publish.
Hugh Nibley, Address to the History Honors
Banquet
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Enhances Teaching
Consider the 49 recipients of the Maeser
Research and Creative Arts Awards of the past
fifteen yearsover 80 of the Research and
Creative Arts Award recipients have teaching
evaluations which are above the corresponding
college average Their evaluations are higher by
an average of 0.6 points on the new online
evaluation scale.
Brent Webb, A Learning Environment at BYU,
August 2005
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Enhances Teaching

• Correlation is not causality
• -Two possible mechanisms empathy and passion

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Enhances Teaching
Mechanism 1 Empathy The teachers who are best
able to stretch their students minds are those
who also stretch their own and are willing to
test their ideas by submitting them to the
critical examination of others.
Rex Lee, Of Circles Bells, and the College that
We Love, 1989
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Enhances Teaching
Mechanism 2 Passion Education is not the
filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
W. B. Yeats
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Counters Ignorance
Today is the first day of springthe days will
be getting longer.

Catherine McQueen, March 21, 2003
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Counters Ignorance
To counter ignorance, false ideas, and
downright slander, our church could use more
competent, credible, and creative researchers
and publishers at BYU. If we want our beliefs
and values known, understood, and respected, they
need to be published. BYU needs all of its
research oars in the water.

Grant McQueen, BYU Finance Professor
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Counters Ignorance
And truth is a knowledge of things as they are,
and as they were, and as they are to come.
Doctrine and Covenants 93 24
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Counters Ignorance
BYUs researchers have unfair competitive
advantages stakes in the ground and divine
intervention. -Stakes families, health,
archeology, physics, (leadership
too?). -Intervention Alma 34 25 and the temple.

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Counters Ignorance
Professor Lynn Callister gave a talk called
Spirituality and Childbirth, when she won
the Distinguished Professional Service Award
from the Association of Women's Health,
Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses. Her research
reputation opened this door.

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Serves Man
A dancer dances, a painter paints, a composer
composes, a builder builds, and a scholar
publishes. All the costly gimmicks, the
laborious jargon, the worlds fair architecture,
the intellectual posturing, the enormous staff,
the top-heavy administration, the swarming
student-body of a big modern university are but
window-dressing unless we can show that we are
able to produce something.
Hugh Nibley, Address to the History Honors
Banquet
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Serves Man
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Serves Man
His once-controversial findings became the basis
for U.S. federal regulations and a Supreme Court
decision that saves tens of thousands of lives
annually.
Michael Smart about BYU Professor Arden Pope III
in Clearing the Air, BYU Magazine, Spring 2007
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P gt R gt L
The sad case of non-publisher George
Wythe Represented Virginia at the Continental
Congress, signer of the Declaration of
Independence, Americas first Professor of Law,
taught at College of William and Mary, taught
Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay, James Monroe, John
Marshal, and others, freed his slaves and made
provisions for their support (cost him his
life). What did he know????
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Fosters Fun
Which one are you most excited about working on?
Bruce Hafen Linger Awhile, Thou Art So Fair
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Fosters Fun
The greatest thing a human soul ever does is
this world is to see something, and tell what it
saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry,
prophecy, and religion, all in one.
John Ruskin in Modern Painters
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Fosters Fun
Research is consumption, not production.
Val Lambson, BYU Economics Professor
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Fosters Fun
Merlyn to Wart (King Arthur)
The best thing for being sad is to learn
somethingLearn why the world wags and what wags
it. That is the only thing which the mind can
never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured
by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of
regretting. Learning is the thing for you.
T.H. White The Once and Future King
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Fosters Fun
Look at what a lot of things there are to
learnpure science, the only purity there is.
You can learn astronomy in a lifetime, natural
history in three, literature in six. An then
after you have exhausted a milliard lifetimes in
biology and medicine and theo- criticism and
geography and history and economicswhy, you can
start to make a cartwheel out of the appropriate
wood, or spend fifty years learning to begin to
learn to beat your adversary at fencing. After
that you can start again on mathematics, until it
is time to learn to plough.
T.H. White The Once and Future King
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Is Eternal
The glory of God is intelligence, or in other
words, light and truth.
Doctrine and Covenants 93 36
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Is Eternal
There is something about the human spirit that
dislikes the status quo. The status quo is not
inspiring. We believe in eternal progression and
life long learning. Research is the framework
for learning and progressing.
Stephen Nadauld, BYU Finance Professor
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Is Eternal
seek ye diligently and teach one another words
of wisdom yea, seek ye out of the best books
words of wisdom seek learning, even by study and
also by faith.
Doctrine and Covenants 88 118
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Is Eternal
Mormonisms crying need is for disciples who
will not be content with merely repeating some of
the truths, but will develop its truths and
enlarge it by that development.
B. H. Roberts
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Is Eternal
What we want is not more little books about
Christianity, but more little books by Christians
on other subjectswith their Christianity latent.
C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock Essays on Theology
and Ethics
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Is Eternal
elevate their minds, that they may not only
understand the earth we walk upon, but the air we
breath, the water we drink, and all the elements
pertaining to the earth How gladly would we
understand every principle pertaining to science
and art, and become thoroughly acquainted with
every intricate operation of nature Learn
everything that the children of men know
Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses
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Is Eternal
This University shares with other universities
the hope and labor involved in rolling back the
frontiers of knowledge even further, but we also
know that through the process of revelation there
are yet many great and important things A of F
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intellectual and spiritual impact far beyond what
mere men can imagine
President Spencer W. Kimball, Second-Century
Address
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Is Eternal
Faculty testimonies should not be treated like a
dried up dodo bird egg, safely wrapped up and
stored in a shoe box. Rather, they should be
like a nicked and dinged crowbar, used to pry
open the truth.
Kirk Hart. March 3, 2003
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Publishing at BYU
Role Models
Father Abraham
Joseph Smith