Nine Elon faculty participated in the 2008 Faculty Writing Residency from June 2-5. Sophie Adamson, Jo Ann Buck, Judy Esposito, Cindy Fair, Ashley Holmes, Ben McFadyen, Paula Patch, Stephen Schulman, and Terry Tomasek 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 daily time to writing, small group feedback, and group lunches, with the residency bookended 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 2009 Faculty Writing Residency will be June 1-4, 2009. Watch for application information in early spring.