The Provost’s Office and Faculty Center invite all tenure-track and tenured faculty and librarians to consider applying for the 2025 Spring Break Faculty Writing Retreat. The purpose of this retreat is to provide you (faculty and librarians with expectations for producing scholarly and creative activity) with the space, time, and sustenance as you work on a scholarly or creative project. The retreat will be held during spring break in 3 different time frames (2 days, 3 days, and 5 days). Space is limited and priority will be given to tenure-track (untenured) faculty and librarians, but all are welcome and encouraged to apply. 

Dates:

• Monday, March 17 – Friday, March 21, 2025

Day options: 

• 5 days (MTWRF)
• 3 days (MTW)
• 2 days (RF, 3/14 and 3/15)

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 7 hours each day of the retreat, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (including morning goal sharing; 1 hour of a catered, group lunch; and 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 will open on December 1st and close on Monday, February 10th at 11:59 PM. 

The Faculty Center and Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) are excited to convene interested Rowan faculty for participation in the NCFDD's 14-Day Faculty Writing Challenge from October 7th-October 20th, 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. 

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.
• Click here to learn more about the Challenge

Local Community Support

Through the Rowan Faculty Center and DEI, we’re also creating an opportunity for some local community support throughout the challenge by hosting four hybrid sessions -- dates & times TBA.

• Goal Setting: 
• Writing Together 1: (come and go as you like)
• Writing Together 2: (come and go as you like)
• Reflection Session: 

Registration closes September 27th! 

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