Community Benefits

Q: Why join the Firerook Community – what’s in it for me?

Answer:
Reason 1: Connection and Conversation. Perhaps the biggest reason is the ability to connect with people you’d really like to be talking with. Our community includes an unusual mix of people from a wide variety of roles associated with higher ed: faculty, staff, administrators, consultants, coaches, graduate students. Members come from a range of places, organizations, institutions, and institution types (research intensive through community colleges). We are all interested in higher ed as an endeavor, in its success, and in the success of those associated with it – and we think we need each other’s perspective to do the work that needs to be done in higher ed. If you work with or in higher ed, or would like to, this variety of perspectives is a treasure trove.

Reason 2: Conference Recordings. Our March 2019 conference, Because Higher Ed Is Different, produced rich conversations about hot topics in higher ed such as faculty governance, translational scholarship, DEI work, and more. Joining the community gives you access to videos and related resources from those sessions. Use these to learn more about faculty perspectives, consulting tips, leadership development, creating inclusive culture, and other themes central to higher ed.

Reason 3: Firerook Community Peer Discussion Groups. Would you like to be able to meet with a group of people in a position similar to yours, but from across a spectrum of institutions or organizations, to learn from their experience and to share yours? We currently have a coaches/consultants group, a faculty group, and are in the process of organizing a graduate students group, and we have other discussion group ideas in the hopper. What discussions would you like to have?

Q: What are you planning for the future?

Answer:
We have all kinds of ideas, from podcasts to edited volumes to consultant incubators to specific trainings to more Peer Discussion Groups to… Well, you get the idea. The main question is, what will be most useful to those in the Community?  Joining the Community gives you a voice in what comes next.