What is Faculty Forum? Why have one?
The purpose of the Faculty Forum is to get your scholarly work published.
The Faculty Forum walks you through the scholarship process of writing, critiquing, editing, and submitting your work for publication or presentation. Your work will be the best you can accomplish after it has gone through the Faculty Forum process.
Scholarship rarely occurs in isolation. Many scholars don't finish their promising work or publish because of the lack of knowledge, familiarity, guidance, and collegial support necessary to accomplish and perfect a scholarly work - the Faculty Forum provides that. Writing can be difficult and the scholarly process is often mysterious; pursuing any scholarly project to completion is difficult without support of colleagues and the necessary information that the Faculty Forum can provide.
The reciprocal peer mentoring process of the Faculty Forum ensures that faculty produce their best scholarly work with the most support in the most convenient and flexible manner for faculty and college. At the end of a Faculty Forum project, participating faculty each have a completed work of scholarship that is their best and that they have submitted to conferences and journals.
The Stages of a Faculty Forum Project
In order to produce the best scholarly work you can, you will go through the Faculty Forum process in three stages:
(1) Writing Workshops - You bring your project or paper idea, outline, rough draft or work-in-progress to the group of scholars in your college participating in the Forum. Through a series of writing workshops and peer feedback, your work is perfected beyond what you can accomplish alone. This step is integral to the process of success; it should not be skipped.
(2) In-House Faculty Forum Conference - Your college will have an in-house conference at which you can present your work to fellow faculty and administrators; the whole college can be included for this. You will gain practice and experience in presentation and further refine your work through conference feedback. Recognition of your accomplishment, celebration of the faculty's expertise as a whole, and exchange of critical, interesting ideas are some other benefits of the conference.
(3) Submission to Outside Venues - Your work is now ready to be submitted to conferences, journals, or publishers. With the help of the website and the Faculty Forum, you will discover how easy the submission process is, and how easily your improved and refined paper is accepted after it has been "Faculty Forum-ed"!
Each of these activities is made possible by the support information of the Faculty Forum website - a unique source of scholarship information compiled from various and diverse experts and organizations on the scholarship, presenting, and publishing process.
A Faculty Forum Coordinator, chosen by your school, will work with and learn from P&P and the Faculty Forum to help you access the information you need and to guide and mentor you through each of these steps.
How does it work?
Just some of the reasons the Faculty Forum process helps faculty scholarship are:
it provides deadlines to faculty as they work on their paper or project
it provides feedback on writing to perfect their work
it provides expertise available at faculty's convenience
it provides the collegial support necessary for scholarly activities
A Unique Project
The Faculty Forum is a unique response to the changes in higher education today. While faculty development programs are common, most are pedagogically oriented, aimed at improving teaching skills only. (This may include such things as: teaching tips, writing a good syllabus, good course development, classroom practices, motivating students, learning styles, student teamwork, assessment, teaching large classes and so forth.) None are focused on scholarship mentoring, an increasing need in the field due to current educational trends. The Faculty Forum is a much needed program in today's educational environment.
Scholarship Benefits Faculty and Institutions
Scholarship encouragement and mentoring as a faculty development approach is increasingly lacking today; yet its advantages are many. Scholarship improves education quality as a whole - and mentors the teacher at the foundation of good teaching: content knowledge. Through the process, it increases faculty enthusiasm and vitality for their teaching and learning endeavors. It improves critical thinking and communication schools. Scholarship also increases professionalization -- professional organization involvement, discipline depth and currency, and recognition, networking, and advancement. In these and many other ways, faculty scholarship helps to improve the quality of higher education delivered at their institutions.
More Information
See the Site Map for more information and a clear picture of the site.
Contact P&P
To contact Perkins & Perry, Inc., to learn more about the Faculty Forum and how your school can have one, or to sign up for the Faculty Forum, go to About P&P .
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