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Research Boot Camp for New Faculty
New faculty often struggle to publish research during their first or second year
of full-time teaching. A dizzying array of professional responsibilities certainly
makes maintaining an aggressive research agenda more difficult than in graduate
school. The key is to develop a new practice for a new environment, to isolate productive
blocks of time for research and writing within a schedule that otherwise may seem
out of one’s control.
Sponsored by the Faculty Development Office in the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), Research Boot Camp is designed to provide faculty the opportunity for focused, supervised writing time so that you may make significant progress toward the completion of articles, book chapters, grant applications, and other publishable research projects. You are a good candidate for RBC if you have data collected for your article, book, or study, and now need time, space, or more productive writing strategies to complete your writing.
The Office offers a semester-long Research Boot Camp every spring term for new full-time faculty in their first two years at Marshall. In the space of seven sessions during the semester, RBC members engage in a total of 17 intensive on-site hours of research writing. Each session also includes time for individual progress reports.
Participants must clear their schedules, make a commitment to attend all work sessions for the Spring boot camp, and submit a work plan in advance of the first meeting. (Instructions will be sent after you register.) Faculty at the South Charleston campus will be accommodated remotely via polycom link. Those who complete the full boot camp will receive $100 in travel funding.
If you would like to make substantial progress on your research, then Research Boot Camp is for you! Networked laptops will be available, and the Faculty Development Office will provide high-quality energy foods (no twinkies!). All sessions will convene in Drinko 138.
Space is limited to the first 20 registrants. The registration deadline for Spring 2013 is December 10, 2012. Questions? Call Sherri Smith at 6-5268 or email at smithsc@marshall.edu.