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This chapter provides reflections and summaries for Smith’s career in higher education including 21 years as a college administrator and 29 as a faculty member. The chapter synthesizes Smith’s research and the personal journey of her career. In addition, the chapter looks at the important role of associations, accreditation, and foundations in the work of higher education and the opportunities provided for research and evaluation. Embedded in the chapter are perspectives on building institutional capacity for diversity, faculty diversity, institutional change, the role of institutional identities, and bridging research and practice in higher education.

“If I am not for myself..who will be?

If I am for myself only…What am I?

If not now…When?”

Hillel

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”

Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from Birmingham jail, April 16, 1963

“Never, never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another” (Nelson Mandela, 1994)

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Smith, D.G. (2017). The Privileged Journey of Scholarship and Practice. In: Paulsen, M. (eds) Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, vol 32. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48983-4_1

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