Get Started and Write: Advice for New Faculty

Abstract

This paper describes several strategies for organizing, collaborating on, persisting in, and funding professionalwriting activities that can benefit new tenure track faculty members. Establishing and maintaining a regularprogram of academic writing is essential to a successful career in higher education, but initiating and maintain-ing a program of consistent writing activity is very challenging because of the competing responsibilities newfaculty members face. The better prepared the new faculty member is for academic scholarship, the greatertheir likelihood of success.