Keystroke Writing Program
Program Description
While the digital well of online posts, articles, op-eds, and announcements of seminal articles rarely runs dry, the valuable voices of HBCU STEM leader-scholars remain stubbornly absent in bylines. Keystroke is a professional development program of the Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership.
This intensive scholarly writing program, uniquely designed for HBCU STEM faculty and administrators, targets the underlying, often unspoken, challenges that often preclude broadening participation scholars and practitioners from publishing in mainstream scientific literature and media outlets.
The Keystroke Writing Program combines contemplative practices, dedicated and accountable writing time, individual and peer coaching, and a culminating four-day writing institute aimed at ensuring the narratives, perspectives, and worldviews of successful HBCU STEM leaders, from all levels of the professoriate, are captured in peer-reviewed and non-peer reviewed outlets.
Keystroke participants actively engaged in:
- developing important shifts in their mindset about writing, while also gaining skills in identifying their unique voice and the value that lies within it
- utilizing national data to build compelling cases for broadening participation
- using writing to raise a national consciousness that values the contributions of leader-scholars and HBCUs, at large, to the U.S. STEM enterprise.
