Annual program sponsored by the CATL and WAC inspires and encourages faculty writing.
Ten Elon faculty members participated in the Fourth Annual Faculty Writing Residency June 1-4.
Ayesha Delpish, Greg Hlavaty, Megan Isaac, Lauren Kearns, Ketevan Kupatadze, Paula Patch, Alan Russell, Murphy Townsend, Shawn Tucker, and Beth Warner spent the week working on scholarship about their teaching and learning.
Balancing dedicated time for faculty writing with small group feedback on drafts, these intensive summer retreats help faculty make the crucial, and often difficult, step of going public with their SoTL research. In addition, the residency process encourages faculty participants to examine their own writing processes, prompting changes in how they support their students’ writing in the disciplines.
During the four-day residency, faculty devote time each day to writing, small group feedback, and group lunches, with the residency book-ended by a group opening and closing. The residencies are facilitated by Peter Felten, Director of CATL, Michael Strickland, Director of Writing Across the Curriculum, and Jessie Moore, Coordinator of English 110: College Writing.
The 2010 Faculty Writing Residency will be in early June. Watch for application information in early spring.