Peer support and the mutual accountability of a writing community provide a structure that encourages faculty scholarly productivity. This Faculty Learning Community will create the physical and intellectual space to work on projects with a view to developing a publishable result. Meetings will include discussions of writing practices and suggestions to help writers with those practices, and the opportunity for peer response, in addition to space and time for writing.
Purpose:
To provide a place to:
Activities:
Outcomes:
Each participant will have
Dates and Times:
Ten (10) meetings, dates and times.
Fridays, from 1:00 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Meeting dates (10 are listed; you are required to attend 9)
Purpose
The FLC is designed encourage faculty to take article-length manuscripts on the cusp of submission to the next level. This FLC will be carried out in workshop format, introducing (or re-familiarizing) faculty to the realities of manuscript submission, peer-review, and the publication process. The workshop will require the completion of an article-length manuscript draft at a predetermined point during the spring term. That draft will be reviewed by a group of FLC participants, who will provide feedback in person during FLC meetings. Participants will ideally have a draft or substantial draft outline in process before applying to participate in the FLC.
Activities
A tentative FLC plan is provided below, though much depends on the size of the FLC, as the workshop will be geared toward the needs of its participants.
(1) We will meet to discuss obstacles to completion we currently face on the road to submission and offer one another feedback as to process, inviting guest speakers to narrate their past experiences in that vein.
(2) We plan to bring in prolific teaching college authors as guest speakers, their topics spanning a number of disciplines.
(3) We will facilitate a set of workshop meetings where a small number of participant authors, including the group’s co-FIRs, receive live feedback from their colleagues in the group regarding their manuscripts in anticipation of submission.
(4) We will hold a final meeting to discuss submission, working (and being patient with) journal editors, navigating and negotiating requests to revise and resubmit, and getting back on your feet after a rejection.
(A Range of Possible) Outcomes
(1) Submission to a peer-reviewed journal.
(2) Submission of a chapter-length contribution to an edited volume.
(3) Submission of a substantial grant proposal.
(4) Completion of a chapter of a participant's own scholarly book.
Meetings
Meeting 1: Friday, Oct 25, from 2 to 4 pm.
Meetings 2-8: TBA based Doodle poll of participants.
Grounded in the belief that teachers are the best teachers of teachers (a root idea of the National Writing Project), this FLC will facilitate formative classroom observations among composition faculty who teach writing-intensive courses. The FLC will serve as a resource for transparent discussions about the pedagogy and practice of teaching writing; it will also offer faculty an explicit tool for receiving formative feedback on their teaching. Finally, this FLC will be an opportunity for faculty to consider how they are helping students succeed as academic writers, readers, and thinkers.
Below is our tentative list of meeting dates. During our first meeting, this list may be revised to accommodate FLC members’ schedules:
The role of department chair can be a challenging one. This FLC will be a community of practice for department chairs to explore the role and to support each other while creating an instutional practice at CSUEB for chairs to collaborate and support each other in their work. The FLC will be structured around two themes—management and leadership—and will also be a space for participants to work on topics/projects of interest to them.
The FLC will be structured to meet the needs of its members in terms of meeting times and its goals and objectives.
Management
Leadership
Outcomes and meeting dates will be determined after 10/15 and the call for participants closes. Intitial outcomes include:
Meeting Schedule
This FLC will familiarize faculty with the process of submitting grants at Cal State East Bay. The group will also support members in the search for grant opportunities, the development of specific aims and the process of grant writing.
The FLC will be structured to meet the needs of its members in terms of meeting times and its goals and objectives.
We will
Each participant will
1. Know the resources available from the ORSP
2. Have identified a grant mechanism
3. Have completed the Specific Aims for that grant
4. As a group identify and complete portions of the grant focused on institution support
Meetings determined by the group.
Meeting Schedule