NIH-Focused Faculty Collaborative Writing Group

This group will run for six weeks and meet for 90 minutes each week. It will start in mid-October and finish right before the Thanksgiving break. Please click the link below to select which time option(s) work best for you to help determine the session time.

The deadline to respond and join the group is October 1st. The meeting time will be selected based off the most popular selection.

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Follett Bookstore and TTU Libraries OER Adoption Initiative

The University Libraries and Follett Bookstore are partnering on an Open Educational Resources (OER) Adoption Initiative. Full-time and part-time faculty can:

• Receive a $750 stipend for using an OER - easy money!
• Submit short and simple application; stipends awarded on rolling basis.
• Easily utilize existing OER; no need to create your own.

The Follett Bookstore and TTU Libraries Open Educational Resources (OER) Adoption Initiative is funded by the TTU Follett Bookstore and supported by TTU Libraries. This initiative is intended to help increase OER adoption efforts in core curriculum classes at Texas Tech University. Generally, awards will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis and priority will be given to faculty who have never received funding from the Follett and TTU Libraries Open Educational Resources Adoption Initiative in the past. Funds received will serve as a one-time payment stipend to recognize the time and effort needed to select and adopt existing OER in a course.

Funding is limited to $750 per faculty member, per academic year. Awards will be taxed as a lump sum payment. Funds will only be granted to instructors of record who are interested in adopting pre-existing OER or other freely accessible material in their classrooms and they are not currently using OER or other freely accessible resources (such as open access or library-licensed materials). If faculty wish to create OER, they are encouraged to email the Online/OER Librarian (libraries.oer@ttu.edu) to discuss other funding opportunities.

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Learn more or email libraries.oer@ttu.edu.

American Association of University Professors (AAUP)  started in 1915, was instrumental in establishing main principles of shared governance in academia, still in place today. 

Texas Tech University Chapter was established in December of 2021 to serve ALL of its faculty involved in teaching and research- tenure-track, non-tenure track, full-time and part-time, as well as graduate TAs.  

As academic freedom is increasingly under attack on campuses throughout our country,  we work hard on behalf of our faculty to protect their freedom to speak up and to choose what to teach. 

Join your colleagues at Texas Tech University in speaking out and defending what's important to YOU.