Faculty, Staff Invited to Community-Engaged Writing Retreat

The Center for Community-Engaged Teaching and Research (CETR) is hosting a free, virtual community-engaged writing retreat for faculty and staff.

Dr. Patti H. Clayton
Dr. Patti H. Clayton

The CETR center helps University faculty and students create community partnerships that provide opportunities to learn, research, address community concerns and grow as civic-minded citizens.

A professional development opportunity, the community-engaged writing retreat will be held Wednesday, June 2, from 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Participants can register online for this Zoom event.

Dr. Patti H. Clayton, an independent consultant with PHC Ventures, will facilitate one of the retreat workshops. She has 20 years of experience as a practitioner-scholar and educational developer in service-learning, community engagement and experiential education. Clayton also is a senior scholar with the Center for Service Learning at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis as well as the Institute for Community and Economic Engagement at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In addition, she is a practitioner-scholar in residence at NC Campus Compact.

The schedule for the community-engaged writing retreat is as follows:

  • 9 to 9:15 a.m. Welcome and writing project introductions
  • 9:15 to 10:30 a.m. Facilitated focused writing session
  • 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. Meditation and well-being practices customized to participants and facilitated by Amber Lasure, assistant director of wellness and fitness, Duquesne University Recreation Services
  • 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Facilitated focused writing
  • 12:30 to 2 p.m. Workshop facilitated by Dr. Patti H. Clayton, PHC Ventures
  • 2 to 2:15 p.m. Music break featuring Dr. Joseph Sheehan, Mary Pappert School of Music
  • 2:15 to 3 p.m. CETR coaching facilitated by Dr. Craig Maier, associate professor of communication and rhetorical studies and a 2020-2021 Gaultier Faculty Fellow
  • 3 to 4:15 p.m. Facilitated focused writing and establishing next steps.

For more information on the virtual community-engaged writing retreat, contact Dr. Jessica Mann, assistant vice president of community engagement, at 412.396.5893.