In the late fall of 1990, Ernest Boyer spoke to the annual meeting of the
American Association of State Colleges and Universities in Boca Raton,
Florida. He drew spontaneous applause when he spoke about the changing
priorities of the professoriate that he had outlined in his just-published
text, Scholarship Reconsidered. The line which brought the loudest
response was, "I long for the day when the slogan of higher education is
no longer 'publish or perish,' but 'teach or perish'."
