Ten Elon faculty members participated June 1-4 in the Fifth Annual Faculty Writing Residency. The annual program sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and the Writing Across the Curriculum program inspires and supports faculty writing.
Corinne Auman, Dave Gammon, Greg Lilly, Nina Namaste, Brian Nienhaus, Rebecca Pope-Ruark, Janice Richardson, Terry Tomasek, Murphy Townsend, and Tonya Laakko Train 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, Jessie Moore, Coordinator of English 110: College Writing, and Michael Strickland, English/Environmental Studies.
The 2011 Faculty Writing Residency will be in early June. Watch for application information next spring.