Join members of the RAFO Executive Committee and President Jen Wilson as we discuss the announcements made during the last Senate meeting, the financial state of the university, and the next steps for RU and RAFO.

Please bring your questions and thoughts about Provost Lois Becker's statement concerning grading and allowing students to take an Incomplete for their final course grades.

We hope to hear from you.

To join the RAFO Open Chat Session on Apr 23, 2020 at 4:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada), click this Zoom link

Published: 21 April 2020

Please join RAFO President Jen Wilson and other members of the Executive Committee in an open chat session discuss the change in working conditions since the beginning of the shelter-at-home orders.

We have minor updates to our MOU progress and the responses to the President Ali address from last week.

Each Thursday afternoon from 4-6 pm Central Time we gather via Zoom and share our best practices and greatest challenges to teaching online and managing the changes in modality from in person classrooms to Blackboard and video conferencing. All members are welcome to join and share their thoughts.

Published: 14 April 2020

Sam Rowe, English Department.     

This past November, a Professional Development Mini-Grant from RAFO allowed me to give a paper at the Historical Poetics Now symposium in Austin, Texas. The symposium is a biennial meeting of literary scholars working on 18th- and 19th-century anglophone poetry. Participants share a desire to place the study of poetry in deep historical context, understanding poetic genres, verse forms, and ways of talking about poetry as evolving and changing meaning in response to their circumstances. The field was born out of a frustration with idealizing ways of talking about poetry and poetic address, and a drive to study the meaning that poetry actually makes in its particular social contexts. Scholars presented work on topics like indigenous poetry of the American Midwest, nineteenth-century Bengali epic, the feminist history of the sonnet sequence, and data-oriented approaches to the analysis of verse culture.

Published: 07 April 2020

Read more: Rowe Likens English Radical Poet to Today's Adjuncts.

RAFO is here to listen, share and help all of our adjunct faculty as Roosevelt University transitions into a full online modality.

Last Thursday, several members joined the conversation about adjusting to full online teaching and discussed ideas for using Zoom and other video technology, hours in the virtual "classroom" and the needs of their students.

Please join the conversation from 4 to 530 on Thursday.

Join RAFO President Jen and other members for a Zoom meeting at 4 pm Central Time on April 9th.

Published: 07 April 2020