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Subject: The Quick Tip: How to Aid a Writing-Stalled Professor
The most direct way to improve academic life for everyone on campus is to support faculty writing.
Many academics, if not most, struggle with their writing. There’s no reason to treat that struggle like a shameful secret or to mystify the writing process.
Writing-stalled faculty members tend to cope with their frustrations in ways that end up being ineffective, or even destructive. They get unnecessarily embroiled in departmental politics. Or they create a flurry of research-related projects that won’t meet tenure-and-promotion criteria no matter how creatively framed.
It doesn’t take a hefty budget or a bloated bureaucracy to create and sustain a campus culture that supports faculty writing. It takes books, workshops, confidential consultations, and, most important, writing groups. All of those things can be offered via a faculty writing program. Here are some guiding principles for creating such a program: