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- Faculty Success: Tenure, Promotion & Merit Demystified
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- BrandStoria: The Power of Your Unique Brand Story
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- Fresh Eyes: How Working with an Editor Can Improve Your Work
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- Publish with a University Press: A Brief Introduction to Navigating the University Press World in Difficult Times
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- Free Publicity: How to Create Podcasts & Digital Audio to Promote Your Book
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- How to Seek Funding from State Humanities, Arts Councils
Listen to recording - Writing, Procrastination and Resistance: How to Identify Your Funk and Move Through It
Tuesday, April 20, 12-1 p.m. EST
Faculty Success: Tenure, Promotion & Merit Demystified
Presented by Dr. Kathleen P. King, International Keynote Speaker, Professor of Education at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education in New York City, and President of Transformation Education, LLC (http://transformationed.com)
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"Excellent presentation and easy to access forum. I enjoyed my lunch hour!!"
"Very informative."
Based on Dr. Kathleen P. King’s popular short article, "How is Tenure like the TV Show Survivor," this one-hour session provides a fresh perspective of the tenure track, promotion and merit race. King will also share her newly released Faculty Success Model to explain how professors can efficiently succeed in their institutional systems while also meeting their professional goals, research and publication desires, and personal satisfaction. King moved from assistant to full professor with tenure in six years at a major research university. She has also mentored dozens of other professors around the world through the same process. As a professor specializing in higher education and adult education, prolific researcher and author, she is especially qualified to lead a vibrant discussion around this topic for TAA authors. Some of the strategies she will share include:
- Establishing and monitoring research agendas, publication agenda, and organizational skills
- Using technology to maximize your effort and productivity
- Benefiting from collaborations and community
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Dr. Kathleen King is a popular international keynote speaker, professor of education at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education in New York City, and president of Transformation Education, LLC. She also serves clients as a certified professional life coach. Her major areas of research include distance learning, digital media, transformative learning, professional development, and instructional technology. Dr. King is an award-winning author of 17 books and over 130 published articles and research papers. Her books and web-based audio materials are used as course materials in universities worldwide and have a large following. She has led the development of many local and global innovative educational projects reaching over 6.4 million learners through technology. Dr. King has an EdD and MEd in Higher & Adult Education from Widener University, an MA in Theology, and a BA from Brown University. Providence, RI.
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Contact Dr. Kathleen King:
E-mail: Kpking@TransformationEd.com
Phone (201) 916-0575
Website: www.TransformationEd.com
715 Wendel Place, Teaneck, NJ 07666
Members of TAA are invited to sign up for Dr. Kathleen P. King's free Transformation Education e-Newsletter. In it she provides express delivery of professional learning resources to your email in-box 1-2 times per month. Subscribe to your free Transformation Education Newsletter: Click here
Teleconference Handouts
- Travel Form Example(PDF)
- Surviving Tenure: Ten Lessons the TV Show Survivor Teaches
Strategic Perspectives (PDF)
- Faculty Research Chart (PDF)
- Activity Sheet (PDF)
- Coaching and Mentoring for
Professionals and Academics(PDF)
BrandStoria: The Power of Your Unique Brand Story
Presented by Sharlene Sones, Principal, Sones + Associates LLC (www.sones.biz)
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We are the stories we tell. From childhood, we learn to place ourselves – as recipient and author – into the context of stories. A great storyteller capitalizes on this to create a personal connection and emotional bond with the audience. Great brands also tell great stories. They build a narrative in which we can actively participate. What’s your unique brand story? How are you leveraging it to succeed? This session will help you understand the elements behind great brand stories and how you can strengthen yours to grow your authoring business.
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Sharlene Sones is principal of Sones + Associates LLC. Her marketing career touches industries as diverse as the four seasons. Sports. Entertainment. Retail. Higher Education. And More. She’s a jack of all marketing trades – and master of the good story. A brand-building and marketing specialist with a penchant for understanding, defining and leveraging brand stories, Sharlene has helped strengthen many well-known global brands such as Benetton Sportsystem, Spalding, Forefront Records and the LPGA. She also has extensive experience working with collegiate bookstores and understands many of the issues facing authors in marketing their work in an ever-changing retail environment. Sharlene earned her graduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and holds a B.S. in management from Babson College.
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- BrandStoria Handout (PDF)
Fresh Eyes: How Working with an Editor Can Improve Your Work
Presented by Laura Poole, Copy Editor, Owner, Archer Editorial Services
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In this one hour teleclass, you will learn from an experienced copy editor how your work can benefit from editing at any level. In this day and age of slashed budgets, publishers only want to produce the best material with minimal work needed to get it ready for print. Making use of an editor helps improve your text and maximize your chances of being published. From developmental to technical to copy editing, professionals are available to help you make a stronger product, even before it is accepted for publication. Professional editors are experts in helping you put forth the strongest content in the most readable way, which boosts your reputation and image, while building your relationship with a publisher. Laura will discuss how to find, hire, work with, and learn from an editor, as well as discussing why you should hire one yourself before submitting your material to publishers.
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Laura Poole is a professional scholarly copy editor with 15 years of experience in publishing. She has run her own company, Archer Editorial Services (http://www.archereditorial.com), for the past 12 years. She has worked for such eminent publishers as Duke University Press, Wiley, and Oxford University Press. Her topic specialties include medical and scientific texts and mathematics texts. She also trains people in copyediting and proofreading and offers a referral service for those wanting to hire freelance editors. She recently joined the TAA and is delighted to offer a discount to TAA members wanting copyediting. Laura is married and lives in Durham, NC. She is also a certified professional life coach.
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- Fresh Eyes Handout (PDF)
Publish with a University Press: A Brief Introduction to Navigating the University Press World in Difficult Times
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 1-2 p.m. EST
Presented by Peter Wissoker, a Former Acquisitions Editor at Cornell University Press
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This is a difficult time for academic publishers. Sales are down, access to digital forms of information is up, and budgets at most universities are being slashed. This one-hour teleconference will guide potential authors through the process of publishing with a university press in these challenging times.
It is designed for three audiences: 1) scholars who need to publish a book for tenure; 2) those who have been publishing their research in journal articles but feel they are ready to step back and take stock of what they have found; and 3) those who are curious as to the current state of academic publishing.
Drawing on nearly twenty years of experience as an acquisitions editor, Peter Wissoker, will discuss how the contemporary business climate is affecting the publishing choices being made by university press editosr, and how to go about publishing an academic book in this context.
The teleconference will address:
- How to assess whether you should write a book
- How best to shape your project
- How to prepare materials to send to a publisher
- How to choose a publisher
- How to approach a publisher
- What happens at the press when your proposal is received–how publishers judge whether or not to publish a particular project
In these tough times, you need to have a realistic assessment of the possibilities of publishing, but also an idea of how to navigate the system in a way that will get you a contract. You will leave this teleconference with a sense of purpose, a sense of direction, and a feeling of momentum.
Peter Wissoker worked as an acquisitions editor for nearly twenty years, most recently at Cornell University Press, where he rebuilt the press’s lists in anthropology, geography, sociology, and urban studies. He began his career at The Guilford Press and then moved to Temple University Press where he was a Senior Acquisitions Editor. His best known titles include Denis Wood’s The Power of Maps and Sara Diamond’s history of the Christian Right, Roads to Dominion. A title he signed at Temple University Press, There Goes the ‘Hood received the 2007 Urban Affairs Association Best Book award. Wissoker’s writing has been published in the journals Urban Affairs Review and Antipode. Over the past decade Wissoker has given talks on academic publishing to graduate students and faculty at a number of universities and academic conferences. In February he is speaking at the Fordham University Law School. He lives in Ithaca, New York.
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Free Publicity: How to Create Podcasts & Digital Audio to Promote Your Book
Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 1-2 p.m. EST
Presented by Dr. Kathleen P. King, International Keynote Speaker, Professor of Education at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education in New York City, and President of Transformation Education, LLC
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Part of what draws people to textbook and academic publications is what they know about the authors: What makes them an expert in the area about which they write? Are they down to earth? Do they understand my needs, and how I need to use the information? Do they write accessibly? Do they understand my teaching needs, so they have incorporated those into the textbook design and ancillary materials?
As illustrated in these questions, today educators, professors and other readers are constantly looking for added-value. This session is designed for TAA and led by Dr. Kathleen P. King, an award-winning educational podcasting expert and co-author of Podcasting for Teachers. Participants will learn how easy and no-cost it can be to create a podcast to promote, or support your publications and professional career.
This session includes a non-technical explanation of the steps to develop a podcast, free and low-cost resource options for recording and hosting your series, as well as introduction to the many different genres which could be used as your platform (solo, historical re-enactments, news show style, interviews, etc). Dr. King and her co-hosts have had over 6.4 million downloads of their podcast series since 2005.
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Dr. Kathleen King is a popular international keynote speaker, professor of education at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education in New York City, and president of Transformation Education, LLC. She also serves clients as a certified professional life coach. Her major areas of research include distance learning, digital media, transformative learning, professional development, and instructional technology. Dr. King is an award-winning author of 17 books and over 130 published articles and research papers. Her books and web-based audio materials are used as course materials in universities worldwide and have a large following. She has led the development of many local and global innovative educational projects reaching over 6.4 million learners through technology. Dr. King has an EdD and MEd in Higher & Adult Education from Widener University, an MA in Theology, and a BA from Brown University. Providence, RI.
Members (Free)
Non-Members Pay Now ($69)
Contact Dr. Kathleen King:
E-mail: Kpking@TransformationEd.com
Phone (201) 916-0575
Website: www.TransformationEd.com
715 Wendel Place, Teaneck, NJ 07666
Members of TAA are invited to sign up for Dr. Kathleen P. King's free Transformation Education e-Newsletter. In it she provides express delivery of professional learning resources to your email in-box 1-2 times per month. Subscribe to your free Transformation Education Newsletter: Click here
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How to Seek Funding from State Humanities, Arts Councils
Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 1-2 p.m. EST
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Presented by Richard Hull, Former Executive Director of the Texas Council and Current Executive Director of the Text and Academic Authors Association
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An often-overlooked source of funding for smaller projects is the state humanities council and the state arts council. Each state has an affiliate to the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a separate affiliate to the National Endowment for the Arts. Arts and Humanities are treated separately by federal funders, but it is possible that an academic author can access funds from both state sources. Roughly, the distinction between the arts and the humanities is this: if you talk about it, that’s the humanities; if you do it, that’s the arts!
In this presentation, Richard Hull, former executive director for the Texas Council for the Humanities, will discuss state humanities and arts council funding sources. He will try to make his discussion of the funding initiatives of various state councils specific to the interests of the participants, so when you sign up for this teleconference, please provide (a) your state, and (b) a brief description of your potential project, and (c) your email address that you will use for the teleconference. Richard will try to address each project with respect to its own state councils’ priorities, grant-making schedule, requirements, and priorities.
Richard Hull served as the Executive Director for the Texas Council for two years. He has also participated in two successful applications for funds from the Florida Council for the Humanities. He currently is in his fifth year as Executive Director of the Text and Academic Authors Association.
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- How to Seek Funding PowerPoint Presentation (PPT Download)
- Mini Grant Application Cover Sheet Sample (PDF)
- Mini Grant Project Description Sample (PDF)
- Michael Ruse Resumé (PDF)
Writing, Procrastination and Resistance: How to Identify Your Funk and Move Through It
Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 12-1 p.m. EST
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Presented by Kerry Ann Rockquemore, a speaker in the field of faculty development and leadership, and author of The Black Academic's Guide to Winning Tenure Without Losing Your Soul
This one-hour teleconference is for faculty, post-docs and/or advanced graduate students who:
- Feel stuck and aren't making progress toward finishing your article, dissertation, or book
- Can't seem to produce unless a deadline is looming
- Feel like everyone else in your environment is moving forward while you're standing still
- Are experiencing a sense of dread because your third year review is around the corner and you know you haven't met your department's publication expectations
- Have recently had a critical third year review, promised yourself you would start writing more but haven't quite lived up to that promise
- Wonder regularly if you really want to be an academic
- Find yourself in a writing funk, but don't know why or how to get out of it
- Feel paralyzed because you haven't written in so long you don't know where to start
- Still can't figure out how your semesters fly by without progress on your research, writing, and publication
This teleconference will also help you:
- Learn the behaviors that lead to writing productivity,
- Understand the factors underlying persistent patterns of procrastination,
- Identify individual forms of writing resistance,
- Implement concrete strategies for moving around resistance,
- Develop a community of support for difficult times
Participants of Rockquemore’s teleconference will receive a subscription to her weekly Monday Motivator e-mail to reinforce the concepts they learned in the teleconference and to encourage application and implementation. They will also receive access to a professional development discussion forum; a bibliography of professional development books, articles, and online resources; and access to online writing support and accountability groups.
Kerry Ann Rockquemore, PhD is an author and speaker in the field of faculty development and leadership. She spent the early years of her professional career climbing the academic ladder while writing about interracial families. She is author of Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (2001, 2007), Raising Biracial Children (2005), and over two-dozen articles and book chapters on multiracial youth. Kerry Ann’s research has been featured in numerous media outlets such as the New York Times and ABC’s 20/20. After Kerry Ann became a tenured professor (at the University of Illinois at Chicago), her focus shifted towards improving conditions for pre-tenure faculty by creating supportive communities for professional development, writing productivity, and work/life balance. Her award-winning work with under-represented faculty led to the publication of her most recent book The Black Academic's Guide to Winning Tenure Without Losing Your Soul (2008). Kerry Ann now provides workshops for new faculty at colleges across the U.S., facilitates a popular online discussion forum for under-represented faculty, and works with a select group of new faculty each semester in her Faculty Success Program. She can be contacted via e-mail at KerryAnn@newfacultysuccess.com
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