Fall 2011 Speaker - Tara Gray
Tara Gray serves as associate professor of criminal justice and as the founding director of the Teaching Academy at New Mexico State University. The Teaching Academy provides New Mexico State educators with training, mentoring, and networking. It helps NMSU educators develop extraordinary teaching lives embedded in exceptional careers.
Tara was educated at the United States Naval Academy, Southwestern College in Kansas and Oklahoma State, where she earned her Ph.D. in economics by asking, “Do prisons pay?” She taught economics at Denison University before joining the Department of Criminal Justice at New Mexico State. She has published three books, including Publish & Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar. She has been honored at New Mexico State and nationally with seven awards for teaching or service.
Tara has presented faculty development workshops to 5,000 participants in more than thirty of the United States, and in Mexico, Guatemala, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Workshop participants report that she is “spirited, entertaining, and informative—she’s anything but gray!™”
Publish & Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar
Friday, September 23, 2011
10:00- 12:30 and 1:30 - 3:30pm (Lunch available - please sign up)
Grand Ballroom, MLK Jr. University Union
Faculty Development invites you to participate in a two-part workshop featuring Dr. Tara Gray, author of “Publish & Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar.” Many scholars are educated as writers at the School of Hard Knocks, but according to Tara Gray, it’s not the only school, or even the best. Much is known about how to become more prolific–and any scholar can. Even when you can’t work harder, there are important ways to work smarter.
Previous participants who took these steps increased productivity by a factor of four. Participants bring a rough draft of their own writing and learn a technique for getting meaningful feedback from others. Writing teams are established so that writers can give and receive ongoing feedback. Two sessions are available, and lunch is offered to those who register. Please register here.
