Opportunities for Chairs and Directors

Academic Administrator Training

March 7, 9:00-12:00: MBSC - Chancellor’s Board Room - Recruitment and Enrollment

Featured Resource

Why you may want to encourage faculty to attend writing retreats.

Faculty can feel enormous pressure to keep their publication trajectory on track and often move from one project to another without taking time to reflect on their writing process. Some faculty have found writing retreats a helpful means to meet their publication goals and reflect on their writing process, but there may be other benefits of writing retreats.

Ahern-Dodson & Dufour (2021) found writing retreat participants also became more interested in the writing experiences of their students. Faculty participants realized that they “…design classes that could be described as relentless—one assignment after another, without time to go back or to rest and reflect.” Furthermore, participants reflected that when they or students experience writing in this way, the meaning of writing – engaging with the content - can be lost as it is difficult to go beyond the “brute goal of completing the product.”

With this enhanced awareness of the student writing experience, faculty may be better equipped to foster more meaningful and sustainable writing expectations for students. If you have faculty interested in a writing retreat, consider recommending the following:

Spring Writing Sprint – NEW this year: March 18-20 (more details below)

Qualitative Data Dive: March 25 (more details below)

Camp Completion – a UNO tradition: May 19-23

Ahern-Dodson, J., & Dufour, M. (2021). Supporting faculty as writers and teachers: An integrative approach to educational development. To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, 40(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/tia.964

Opportunities for Faculty

Please forward to your faculty.

Heartland Civic Summit: March 6, 9:00-6:00, CEC

Connect with community leaders, students, educators, and change-makers in the region through workshops, discussions, research activities, and networking opportunities. Breakfast and lunch are included. Additional information and registration are available here.

ILCI AI Summit: March 12, CEC 201/205/209 (RSVP here)

9:00-10:00: Introduction and community partner panel
10:00-12:00: Breakout sessions demonstrating how AI is being used and student-specific sessions designed to build knowledge and basic AI skills in students.

Spring Writing Sprint – NEW this year: March 18-20, 9:00-3:00

A three-day writing retreat over spring break with breakfast and lunch provided on the 18th and 20th; and beverages provided on the 19th. Register here.

Qualitative Data Dive: March 25, 9:00-2:00 – Criss Library 320, Zoom option available

Faculty and graduate students, bring your qualitative data, proposals, manuscripts, or other work in progress and join a group of like-minded researchers for dedicated analysis and writing time. Register here.

Community Engagement Lunch and Learn: March 26, 12:00-1:00 (virtual)

Farrah Grant (Geography/Geology) will be featured in the March roundtable. More information is available here.

Student Success through Student Support – Strategies for Academic Success: March 28: 9:00-10:30 – CEC 201/205. Includes breakfast!

Discuss case scenarios involving student and faculty interactions and connect with staff from campus support units such as CAPS, ASC, DASH, and others. Register here.

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