As an Emerita Professor, and when I was more actively teaching, I always spent time mentoring newer faculty members into the skills that make one a successful college/univeristy teacher, and prepare for tenure and promotions by developing lines of inquiry, research tools, and the scholarly writing skills needed to get their writing accepted in high-quality academic journals.
In my career, I taught at several universities, retiring emrita from Kent State University, having achieved the rank of Full Professor. I was the recipient of two awards for outstanding teaching in my years at the University of South Florida. My teaching evaluations were consistently strong.
I authored or co-authored 8 professional books; about 40 articles or chapters. With colleagues, I held sessions at conferences of our learned societies to help graduate students and new faculty tackle their first articles and receive feedback.
For about 12 years, I was an Associate Editor for a tier one scholarly peer-reviewed journal called The Reading and Writing Quarterly. Associate Editors work directly with submitting authors to address issues of good writing. With that, and serving on the editorial board of a number of top peer-reviewed journals, I learned that nearly all academics struggle to varying degrees with scholarly academic writing. Almost never did submissions arrive ready for publication.
My goal is to help colleagues on this journey to reach their full potential as college and university teachers, and to grow the skills to earn promotion and tenure in higher education.