Academic disciplines use different terms to describe “those professional activities that contribute to our knowledge, or that lead to the creation of new understandings or experiences that alter our perspective on the human condition” (Williams, 1995, p.1). The traditional term used exclusively by large research/PhD granting institutions and within the fields of science and engineering is “research;” in other disciplines these professional endeavors are more generally referred to as “scholarship,” “creative activities,” or “applied research.”