Are you at mid-career, juggling your next writing project, service responsibilities, and career goals, and looking to connect with others with similar challenges? Join the Mid-Career Faculty Writing Accountability Group!
The group is an opportunity for mid-career professors in the tenure stream or appointment stream who are ready to make a serious commitment to their writing and career goals for the term in a facilitated, faculty-led, supportive and collegial environment. We'll meet weekly for about an hour over the course of the term (with a few scheduled exceptions), in order to check in, write together, share resources, and learn academic career strategies. The group is responsive to the members' interests and needs, but some components are:
- considering career and writing goals and mapping out paths to attain them
- checking in weekly on meeting goals and supporting others in the group through virtual meetings
- getting around burnout and restoring your interest in your work
- strategizing commitments--what to say yes and no to, how to delegate--in order to maximize writing time
- managing time spent on communication and information activities like email
- considering ways to broaden impact of your work, including publicizing and public-facing profiles on websites
Your facilitator will be Annette Vee, an Associate Professor in English who is working on her second book project while juggling significant administrative, advising, and family commitments. Annette has been researching strategies for time management and actualizing career goals and is working on implementing them to gain more time for writing and research. Annette has been facilitating the group for the last few terms and is grateful to Hannah Johnson, who led the pilot version of the group, along with Moriah Kirdy and Jean Grace in the Writing Institute for resources and support for this group.
You can join this group at the beginning of the term.