10/11/2024

CSCA Faculty Learning Community Call for Applicants

CSCA Faculty Learning Community

The Central States Communication Association invites students/scholars who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to participate in a Faculty Learning Community for 2024/2025.

Purpose: The CSCA Faculty Learning Community will engage Black, Indigenous, and People of Color students/scholars in a curriculum program to help enhance teaching and research around a specific topic per calendar year. The FLC intends to help create a sense of community at CSCA for these scholars.

Theme for 2024/2025: Belonging (TOO) and Community in Academia

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone, who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy. – Audre Lorde 

This year's theme embraces the importance of Belonging and Community in Academia. 

Eligibility:

• Early Career Faculty members (within 5 years of their finishing degree).
• Ph.D. Candidates seeking employment in academia.
• Identify as a person of color- This includes people who identify as non-white, such as African American/Black, Asian, Latinx or non-white identifying Hispanic, or Native American.

Each participant will receive:

• A professional development stipend to reimburse participants for conference expenses (e.g., for conference registration, membership, lodging, and/or travel).

Participants commit to:

• Attending 6 FLC sessions during the 2024/2025 year (all on Zoom): Nov. 2024 (Sessions 1 & 2), Dec. 2024 (Session 3), Jan. 2025 (Session 4), Feb. 2025 (Session 5), and Mar. 2025 (Session 6 - pre-conference).
• Showcasing your work created as part of the FLC on a CSCA 2025 panel.
• Participating in/attending 3 CSCA 2025 FLC panel sessions.

Submit:

• 400-500 word essay addressing the following questions:
  • Why and how would having a community of faculty of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color benefit your professional and personal development?
  • Why would a focus on belonging and community in academia benefit your professional and personal development?
  • In what ways can we foster belonging and community in the academy?

Submission Deadline: Tuesday, October 15, 2024, by 11:59 pm (CDT).

Email essays and questions to: Dr. Natasha Howard, Morehouse College (natasha.howard@morehouse.edu) and Dr. Tiffany Bell, Valparaiso University (tiffany.bell@valpo.edu)