Institutional Membership Program

Help faculty members increase their publishing success! Sponsor faculty memberships through TAA's Institutional Membership Program. Paying a flat price ranging from $1,000 to $2,000, institutions have the opportunity to choose from the four options below.

Option 1: Virtual Workshops 
Option 2: Pick-Two Package
Option 3: Pick-Three Package

Option 1: Virtual Workshops 

Hosting fee: $1,000
Includes 150 faculty memberships

Hosted on Zoom, these expert-led virtual workshops are interactive workshops that include open discussion with Q&A, how-to instruction, resource handouts, and more. The events range between 90 minutes and three hours. Click on the titles below for workshop descriptions, presenter bios, and more information on the workshop. 

Tara Gray, Associate Provost for Faculty Development and Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, New Mexico State University:

• Publish & Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar

Erin McTigue, Mentor and Coach, The Positive Academic:

• Efficiency with Style: Revising Your Manuscript at the Macro & Micro Levels
• Moving from Pesky to Productive: Designing a Healthy, Sustainable Writing Habit
  
• Project Management for Writing: Gaining Power in the Process

Dannelle Stevens, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, Portland State University:

• Leveraging Your Experience: Write More, Publish More, Stress Less 
• Demystifying the Language of the 'Academic Tribe' and Join the Conversation
  
• The “Not-So-Obvious” Infrastructure of Academic Writing: Powerful and Engaging Conceptual Linkages Across Your Text (60-min)
• Crafting a Clear and Compelling Purpose Statement in Academic Writing (60-min)
• Keeping a Journal in Your Professional Life: Organization, Reflection, and Writing Inspiration All in One Place (60-min)

Christine Tulley, Professor of English, Founder and Director of the Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Writing, The University of Findlay:

• Time Management for Academics: How to Increase Scholarly Productivity While Teaching Effectively and Efficiently 
• Effective Academic Collaboration: How to Solicit, Strengthen, and Survive Collaborative Projects, Presentations, and Publications 
• Developing an Academic Media Presence on Websites and Social Media 

See also Virtual Writing Retreats by Dannelle Stevens (not part of $1,000 offer)

Dr. Tracey S. Hodges, Owner and Chief Creative Officer, The Empowering Advocate LLC

• Creating Deliverables to Manage Multiple Projects Effectively
• Beyond How-to: Using Visuals to Talk about and Write Your Methods Section

James Lang, former Professor of English, founding Director of the D’Amour Center for Teaching Excellence, Assumption University

• Writing Like a Teacher: Expanding the Audiences for Your Research 
• Queries, Proposals, and Agents: The Mechanics of Submitting to Trade Book Publishers 
• Writing Accessible Prose: Attention Tools on the Page 

Option 2: Pick Two Package - A Workshop and one of the two TAA Writing Programs

Fee: $2,000
Includes up to 200 faculty memberships

TAA Writing Gym

Includes access to any and all six-week Writing Gyms offered during your membership year.

Give your faculty the opportunity to flex their writing muscles in the TAA Writing Gym! This 6-week work-out-on-your-own gym time serves as your faculty's writing accountability partner as they work to achieve their writing goals. The program includes:

• Six on-demand writing classes
• Weekly inspirational emails
• Templates for tracking writing and developing a six-week workout plan
• Several writing stations that allow faculty to target specific writing areas
• A discussion group for networking with other participants.

Month of Motivation

Includes access to any and all Months of Motivation offered during your membership year.

Help your faculty authors accomplish their academic writing goals by focusing on two areas of academic writing that many authors tend to struggle with - isolation and accountability. This program includes:

• Daily email messages containing motivation, encouragement, and resources to advance their writing efforts
• The opportunity to participate in multiple 30-minute virtual Writing Accountability Sessions each week
• A time tracking template to log daily writing progress, review weekly progress, and track writing progress over time

Option 3: Pick 3 Package - A Workshop and Both Writing Programs

Fee: $3,000
Includes up to 250 Faculty Memberships

If you are interested in purchasing the TAA Writing Gym and the Month of Motivation as single options or without a workshop, please see the TAA Writing Programs page for details.

Please contact Kim Pawlak for more information: [email protected] or (507) 459-1363.