Journal of the Union Faculty Forum
Faculty Forum exists to foster communication. Meetings of the Faculty Forum organization serve to gather the recommendations and concerns of the faculty, and then the leaders of Forum communicate these to the President and Provost of the University. The Journal of the Union Faculty Forum (JUFF) provides a venue for scholarly and creative communication from Union faculty to their colleagues within the University and beyond. Scholarly and creative communication addresses some of the tensions inherent in the academic life. As professors, we spend much of our time seeking to transmit knowledge, skills, and practices to our students.
Scholarly writing provides a needed opportunity to distill our learning (and wisdom) into a stronger form more suited to our colleagues. Reading scholarly works reminds us of what it is like to learn and thus helps us sympathize more effectively with our students. Creative writing and artwork are activities that push us beyond the analysis, critique, and reflection that comprise much of academic life, encouraging a journey from theory into practice. Reading new creative works and viewing new artwork remind us of what it is like to experience art afresh without a pre-existing interpretation, and thus aid us in recalling our own time as students.
Reading and viewing works for the first time also has the potential to inspire new art and writing. I hope that you will enjoy this new volume of the JUFF and that it will nudge at least a few to create new works, perhaps for future submission to the JUFF. The communication that Faculty Forum fosters would not be possible without the consistent work of many of my colleagues. Thank you to Brian Glas for serving as Forum president last year and setting the trajectory for this year's efforts. Thank you to Georg Pingen (Vice President) and Janna Chance (Secretary) for their faithful work with me in meetings with the University administration. Finally, thank you to Chris Bailey (JUFF Editor-in-Chief) for many years of excellent editing, and thank you to the editorial board, designers, artists, and authors who ultimately make the JUFF possible.
Geoffrey M. Poore
Faculty Forum President, 2023-2024
Editorial Board
- Editor-in-Chief: Christine Bailey, Professor of English
- Art Director: Angela Lee, Professor of Art
Submissions
A new volume of the Journal of the Union Faculty Forum is published during each fall semester. The editors invite submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, artwork, and scholarly articles in various academic disciplines. Submissions should be in a MS Word format with a 12-point font. The journal accepts MLA, APA, and Turabian documentation formats. Acceptance is determined by the quality of the work. You may submit your work for Vol. 44 (Fall 2024 issue) by emailing your contribution to cbailey@uu.edu.