CATALYZING Scholarship: Faculty-Student Writing Groups

Program Overview

Each long semester (Fall and Spring), CATALYST organizes and supports writing groups for faculty and graduate students. This fills a present need to foster fellowship among faculty and/or students as well as provide time, space, and specific support to engage in deep and rich writing for scholarship (that includes but is not limited proposals, presentations, and/ or publications).

What Participants are Saying About Writing Group:

Key Accomplishments:

1. Development of five (5) CATALYST supported writing groups in Spring of 2025.  
   
   • Three groups were faculty focused (one for tenure-track faculty specifically). 
   • Two groups had online options for distance students and remote work faculty. 
2. A program evaluation of CATALYST writing groups indicated participants had: 
   
   • Received mentorship from colleagues 
   • Developed outlines and rough drafts for manuscripts 
   • Completed manuscripts for peer review 
   • Worked on articles for revise and resubmits  
   • Cleaned and/or coded data for a research project 
   • Submitted applications to fellowships 
   • Generated conference presentations  
   • Forged a teaching partnership with a faculty colleague in their group 
   • Established Cross-departmental collaborations

Additional Writing Opportunities at Texas Tech University:

• TTU Faculty Writing Groups
• Writing Centers of Texas Tech for Under/Graduate Students

Organizational Resources for Scholarly Writing:

• A Semester Needs a Plan
• The Sunday Meeting
• Writing SMART Goals

Thanks to Faculty and Students Who Serve/d as Group Leaders (in alphabetical order):

• Dr. Jeasik Cho
• Dr. Michael Joseph
• Dr. Johanna Keene
• Dr. Kristin Mansell
• Dr. René Saldana

And thank you to all the faculty and students who participate/d in the writing groups!

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