Mehrubeoglu, M., & Vance, C. C., & Kelly, K. A., & Ortiz, J. L., & Patrick, S., & Adebo, P. O., & Chimene, D., & Reustle, J. W. N. L. (2023, June), Writing as an URM STEM Community: Increasing Competitiveness and Success of Underrepresented Minority STEM Pre-tenure Faculty and Postdoctoral Researchers through Community Grant and Other Academic Writing Experiences  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--44441

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  Mehrubeoglu, M., \& Vance, C. C., \& Kelly, K. A., \& Ortiz, J. L., \& Patrick, S., \& Adebo, P. O., \& Chimene, D., \& Reustle, J. W. N. L. (2023, June), \emph{Writing as an URM STEM Community: Increasing Competitiveness and Success of Underrepresented Minority STEM Pre-tenure Faculty and Postdoctoral Researchers through Community Grant and Other Academic Writing Experiences}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--44441

Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Cherish C. Vance, Kimberle Ann Kelly, Janel L Ortiz, Shawanee' Patrick, Philip Olawale Adebo, David Chimene, and Joseph William Newton Leo Reustle.  "Writing as an URM STEM Community: Increasing Competitiveness and Success of Underrepresented Minority STEM Pre-tenure Faculty and Postdoctoral Researchers through Community Grant and Other Academic Writing Experiences".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://strategy.asee.org/44441 Internet.  25 Jun, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_44441}
  Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Cherish C. Vance, Kimberle Ann Kelly, Janel L Ortiz, Shawanee' Patrick, Philip Olawale Adebo, David Chimene, and Joseph William Newton Leo Reustle.
  "Writing as an URM STEM Community: Increasing Competitiveness and Success of Underrepresented Minority STEM Pre-tenure Faculty and Postdoctoral Researchers through Community Grant and Other Academic Writing Experiences".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://strategy.asee.org/44441 Internet.  25 Jun, 2024

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author = "Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Cherish C. Vance, Kimberle Ann Kelly, Janel L Ortiz, Shawanee' Patrick, Philip Olawale Adebo, David Chimene, and Joseph William Newton Leo Reustle"
title = "Writing as an URM STEM Community: Increasing Competitiveness and Success of Underrepresented Minority STEM Pre-tenure Faculty and Postdoctoral Researchers through Community Grant and Other Academic Writing Experiences"
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AB  - During STEM Ph.D. studies, most dissertators are focused on conducting research, taking exams, and producing writing necessary for their graduation. Besides experiences in teaching and mentoring, to be competitive and successful in academic positions beyond the Ph.D. degree, participants must also demonstrate successful grantsmanship and research-related manuscript production in their portfolio.

This paper shares the experiences over the course of three years from one AGEP Alliance and its cohort members (participants who began the program as Ph.D. candidates) as they participated in weekly writing sessions as a cohort, and demonstrates the benefits of writing in community as a mode of faculty professional development for underrepresented scholars.
These weekly writing sessions started with an alternating focus on grant writing and academic job application packages. Each session began with a formal introduction to a key component to that week’s focus, followed by goal setting for the writing portion of the session. Participants would work on relevant funding opportunities or specific job postings. In the second year, as the cohort members progressed at different paces and paths towards their academic career goals, the writing sessions became more informal, targeting individual needs. Weekly writing sessions captured writing for grants, research manuscripts, response to reviewers’ and editor’ comments, cover letters, teaching/research statements, diversity statements, patent applications and other forms of writing as needed. During the third year, as the cohort members accepted academic positions, the focus shifted to targeted grant writing (specifically including NSF and NIH proposals with early career focus) to increase the resilience and competitiveness of Underrepresented Minority (URM) academics in their current positions and beyond.

The URM cohort members indicated that although the writing sessions were only one hour, getting together as a group and writing as a community was very valuable for them. Even if the progress in the allotted time was limited, the debrief at the close of each one-hour writing session, where participants shared their successes and challenges, helped reinforce a sense of accomplishment. Beyond writing for their own individual needs, working with their URM cohort community – whose common goals and experiences gave them shared purpose and passion – served to motivate, support and boost morale for most participants.
AU  - Mehrube Mehrubeoglu
AU  - Cherish C. Vance
AU  - Kimberle Ann Kelly
AU  - Janel L Ortiz
AU  - Shawanee' Patrick
AU  - Philip Olawale Adebo
AU  - David Chimene
AU  - Joseph William Newton Leo Reustle
CY  - Baltimore , Maryland
DA  - 2023/06/25
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Writing as an URM STEM Community: Increasing Competitiveness and Success of Underrepresented Minority STEM Pre-tenure Faculty and Postdoctoral Researchers through Community Grant and Other Academic Writing Experiences
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DO  - 10.18260/1-2--44441
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