Faculty Development Groups

Facilitated by Jennifer Corby (Political Science)

Faculty members face numerous competing demands and struggle to find time to write. Writing Accountability Groups (WAGs) can help establish sustainable writing habits by writing with increased frequency for shorter sessions. Research shows that participants in WAGs affirm positive outcomes including accountability, habit-formation, and social support. (Skarupski, K. A., & Foucher, K. C.) These positive outcomes are amplified for women, historically excluded and underrepresented persons. (Neikirk K, et al.)

The Productivity Power Hour provides its members with support, motivation, accountability, and a shared space to write. Each meeting begins with reporting and goal-setting, followed by a writing session, and then another round of reporting and goal-setting. All are welcome!

Learning Goals/Outcomes:

This groups principle objective is to support faculty in their academic writing by:

1) Providing motivation

2) Promote accountability

3) Developing regular writing habits

Download The Productivity Power Hour (Community of Practice) PDF

Meetings

Friday, 3/28 at 1:00pm
Friday, 4/11 at 1:00pm
Friday, 4/25 at 1:00pm
Friday, 5/9 at 1:00pm
Friday, 5/23 at 1:00pm
Friday, 6/6 at 1:00pm

All meetings will be held through Zoom.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89400469464?pwd=nLDYtbzVckE67fVt65Tp7nrRveixbt.1

About the facilitator Jennifer Corby (Political Science)

Jennifer Corby is a political theorist whose research is principally concerned with the social production of time. More specifically, her work explores how sociopolitical institutions structure our perception of the past, present, future, in service of revealing opportunities for transformative change. She has published widely on this topic including Adventures in Modernism: Thinking with Marshall Berman (Terreform 2016), in New Political Science (2023), and in Philosophy and Social Criticism (2024). Her teaching similarly seeks to help students reveal possibilities within the present, and to empower students to make the most of these possibilities through inclusive, cutting-edge pedagogy. Her recent pedagogical research on ungrading can be found in Zeal (2023).

For more information or to join our group please contact Jennifer (Jennifer.Corby@kbcc.cuny.edu).