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Save the date for Faculty Advancement, Retention and Excellence’s (FARE) two-day class prep and ARC watch party event, with support from OIR, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 4-5 at Wichita State Connect. Faculty can come to work on their courses alongside their colleagues and get advice on course design. Watch your email for the sign-up coming in July.

The Office of Faculty Advancement, Retention, and Excellence (FARE) will hold a Faculty Support Network discussion from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. May 8 in 102C McKinley Hall. Dr. Rhonda Lewis, community psychology, will facilitate a conversation around the topic of navigating new guidance on language use and terminology as researchers and educators.

Faculty are also invited to a weekly coffee hour every Friday in April from 9-10 a.m. in the FARE Office, 112 Jardine Hall. See events across campus coming up for faculty on the FARE events page, and email fare@wichita.edu with any questions.

The Office of Faculty Advancement, Retention, and Excellence (FARE) will have two opportunities to catalyze summer research productivity for faculty.

May faculty writing retreat and watch party for the Academic Resources Conference

• There will be two rooms available — one that will be streaming Academic Resources Conference sessions and another for quiet working. Go back and forth as you’d like.
• 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 20-22
• Choose from half days (morning or afternoon) or full days
• Snacks, lunch and beverages provided
• RSVP by May 13

Summer Writing Group 

• Every Wednesday in June and July
• Choose from half days (9 a.m.-noon or 1-4 p.m.) or full days (9 a.m. – 4 p.m. with a lunch break noon-1)
• FARE will provide snacks and beverages, and you bring your own lunch.
• Tell FARE if you’re interested to help determine the best location for the group.

Email fare@wichita.edu with any questions, or come by the FARE Office at 112 Jardine Hall.

The Office of Faculty Advancement, Retention, and Excellence (FARE) wants to celebrate WSU faculty. Join the FARE Office from 4 to 5:15 p.m. May 13 in 233 Rhatigan Student Center, Santa Fe Trail Room, to celebrate the end of the spring semester with finger foods, charcuterie, desserts, wine and beer with colleagues as participants hear briefly from FARE’s first group of Mutual Mentoring Grant awardees about their projects for the coming year.

RSVP by completing this brief form by May 7 so organizers can get a headcount for food.

Faculty need one another. The Office of Faculty Advancement, Retention, and Excellence (FARE) wants to help create the space for that support to happen by launching our Faculty Support Network. Join the FARE Office in April for:

• A Faculty Support Network discussion on navigating the current political environment as a faculty member, facilitated by Dr. Rhonda Lewis, professor and graduate coordinator of psychology, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 8 in 102C McKinley Hall.
• FARE Open House Coffee Hour from 9 to 10 a.m. every Friday in April in 112 Jardine Hall. The office is stocked with coffee, tea, soda and snacks. Drop by any Friday morning in April to meet colleagues and check out the new office.

It seems like there are numerous digital platforms with profiles to keep updated, but which are really needed for what you want to accomplish? If your goal is to build a research network and create collaborations (inside or outside WSU), the FARE Faculty Exchange workshop is for you.

The workshop will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m. April 18 in 266 Rhatigan Student Center, Pike Room.

• Hear from Fran Cook, Office of Research, about updating your ORCID profile to update your Pivot. You may think about Pivot as being just for grants, but it can also be a powerful tool for networking with other researchers and finding mentors.
• Learn the how and why of updating your WSU faculty profile and LinkedIn to build industry partnerships and to make your work visible to foundations, other researchers and media.
• As with every FARE event, you’ll also get to hear from faculty peers what has worked for them in building research partnerships.
• Bring your laptop and updated CV to make the best use of the time.

Spend three days of your spring break working in a peaceful setting, free from distractions of everyday life, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. March 18-20 in the lower level of Ablah Library. Come and go to the retreat as needed.

The writing retreat offers faculty members:

• A chance to focus on their research and writing projects, with ample time and space to delve deep into their work.
• Morning coffee/tea, lunch, and afternoon soda and snacks provided.
• The motivation and camaraderie (and positive peer pressure) of surrounding yourself with people who are leveraging the teaching break to make research/writing progress.