The Faculty Center is excited to convene interested Rowan faculty and graduate students for participation in the NCFDD’s 14-Day Faculty Writing Challenges. 

• The Back to School Challenge runs July 21 – August 3, 2025.
• The Fall Challenge runs September 8 – September 21, 2025.
• The Winter Challenge runs November 3 – November 16, 2025.

Rowan has an institutional membership in the NCFDD, so there is no cost to participate. NCFDD has designed this challenge to allow you “to experiment with daily writing, online community, and supportive accountability,” as well as to meet some of your writing goals this semester. 

By signing up, you’ll be committing to writing for at least 30 minutes every day, logging your progress in their online community platform, and supporting other writers in the challenge along the way. Go to NCFDD to learn more and register.

If you are interested in joining the Challenge:

First you’ll need to activate your institutional membership (if you haven’t already). Here’s how:

• Go to the NCFDD Institutional Membership website.
• Select “Rowan University” from the drop down menu.
• Click “Activate Account” and register with your Rowan email address.

Then you can register on this page.

Fall 2025 Local Writing Challenge Groups

For the Fall and Winter Challenges, the Faculty Center is creating an opportunity for some local community support by hosting four hybrid sessions during each Challenge. 

• Fall Challenge 
  • Goal Setting:  Friday, September 5th @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (hybrid) 
  • Writing Together 1: Thursday, September 11th @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm (hybrid) 
  • Writing Together 2: Thursday, September 18th @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm (hybrid) 
  • Reflection Session: Friday, September 26th @  1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (hybrid)
• Winter Challenge
  • Goal Setting: Friday, October 31st @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (hybrid) 
  • Writing Together 1: Thursday, November 6th @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm (hybrid) 
  • Writing Together 2: Thursday, November 13th @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm (hybrid) 
  • Reflection Session:  Friday, November 21st @  1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (hybrid)

Interested in joining us for one or more of these sessions? Sign up for our Fall 2025 Rowan Faculty Writing Challenge Groups. (If you don’t feel drawn to this group or can’t make it to any of the sessions, you are welcome to participate in the NCFDD Challenge and register through the links above.) 

If you're up for the challenge, we can't wait for you to join us!

The Provost’s Office and Faculty Center invite all full-time faculty and librarians to consider applying for the 2026 Spring Break Writing Retreat. 

The purpose of this retreat is to provide faculty and librarians with expectations for producing scholarly and creative activity with space, time, and sustenance as they work on a scholarly or creative project. 

The retreat will be held during spring break in 3 different timeframes (2 days, 3 days, and 5 days). 

Space is limited and priority will be given to tenure-track (untenured) faculty and librarians, but all full-time faculty are welcome and encouraged to apply. 

Dates:

• Monday, March 16th - Friday, March 20th

Location: Glassboro Campus

Day options: 

• 5 days (MTWRF, 3/16 to 3/20)
• 3 days (MTW, 3/16 to 3/18)
• 2 days (RF, 3/19 and 3/20)

Goals for Faculty:

• Provide collegial accountability for writing/research/creative activity time.
• Generate community and a shared, supportive experience.
• Create academic networks.

What’s in it for you: 

• A supportive, enjoyable, and accountable environment to help you throughout each day
• Opportunities for camaraderie with colleagues from across the campus
• Safe spaces to discuss the successes and challenges and also celebrate your writing, research, and creative activities
• A private study room in the Campbell Library for each participant 
• Group lunches, coffee/tea, and snacks provided daily

What’s asked of you: 

• Participants must agree to engage in the full 6.5 hours each day of the retreat, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (including morning goal sharing; 45-minute group lunch; and 4.5 hours of writing with small breaks) and to step away from other commitments during that time.
• Applicants must provide project title and description and specific goals for scholarly work during the retreat with at least one deliverable (e.g., lit review, manuscript, data analysis, grant proposal, creative work)

How and when to apply:

• Applications are being accepted now via https://go.rowan.edu/SBWR2026. 
• Applications will close on Monday, February 2nd at 11:59 PM. 
• Decisions will be made and notifications sent out on or before February 9th.