Faculty Affairs and Academic Programs
Write to Unite: Spaces for Community and Productivity at UCSB
UC Santa Barbara, 2022-2023
Project Principal Investigators
Barbara Walker and D. Inés Casillas
Project Abstract
Write to Unite will create new arenas in which to build faculty community at UCSB, particularly aimed at intersectionally diverse individuals who have low sense of belonging due to pandemic related isolation. In doing so, Write to Unite will a) facilitate cross-disciplinary peer and informal mentoring relationships, b) provide spaces, resources, and tools to increase scholarly writing and research productivity, and c) contribute to faculty retention through greater sense of belonging and success in meeting standards for promotion and tenure. Write to Unite is focused on diverse pre-tenure faculty across all underrepresented intersectional identities, and new faculty from any rank who joined UCSB since fall 2017. Write to Unite is composed of a series of cohort-based writing interventions, including hosted weekly Write on Site (WOS) meetings; workshops on writing research proposals, journal articles, and book proposals; time management workshops; ongoing writing coaching; and 4-day intensive writing retreats.
Project Link:
https://evc.ucsb.edu/diversity/write-to-unite