On behalf of the Dean of Social Sciences, Kate Pechenkina, AFST and CETLL wish to invite you and your colleagues to join us for our Spring 2024 Sit ‘N’ Write Biweekly Fridays. Please feel free to share the flier in your departments.

While still a new initiative at Queens College, Sit ‘n’ Write Fridays has managed to support our peers across campus as they increase their writing productivity; balance research and teaching obligations; overcome/navigate imposter syndrome; secure grants and publication contracts; and develop strategies that serve to expand their research portfolio. These successes are due in part to the cross section of participants that include administrators and full professors; mid-career tenured faculty; early career and adjunct faculty as we as lecturers and staff.

In addition to Sit ‘N’ Write, which is a writing community for faculty, staff, and advanced graduate students, we have also developed a workshop series called Publish and Flourish. The series offers writing workshops from academic, and vanity press editors; writing coaches; university administrators; and full professors as well as public intellectuals. While these events are open to the campus community at large, each workshop offers one on one and group coaching to Sit N Write participants exclusively after the workshop. For Spring 2024 we will have Publish and Flourish workshops on writing for public consumption and developing a publishing pipeline.

We strongly encourage everyone, advanced graduate students; lecturers; new tenure track faculty; mid-career tenured faculty; full professors; grant writers; and campus administrators, to join our safe space community. To do so, we ask that you complete the intake form found here: S ‘n’ W 24 .

For Spring 2024, we will host our introductory session on January 12, 2024. The session will focus on a concept developed by Kerry Ann Rockquemore, founder of the National Center for Faculty Diversity and Development (NCFDD), “Every Semester Needs a Plan.” We hope to have you join us in Spring 2024.

Please feel free to send any questions to Dr. Natanya Duncan at nduncan@qc.cuny.edu or CETLL Director Soniya Munshi at soniya.munshi@qc.cuny.edu.