Academic Residencies

Academic residencies include the following activities:

1. LEARNING: the beginning of a required sequence of seminars that are completed at a distance through online learning activities, e-mail, and telephone conversation and conference day where learners and faculty present their scholarship and promote discourse around intellectual, professional, and social issues.
2. ENGAGEMENT WITH THE PROGRAM THEMES: presentations by leading scholars and creative activities that include principle stances toward social justice, engaging difference, and creativity, while uniting theory and practice.
3. COMMUNITY BUILDING: new cohort orientation, evening faculty conversations, one-on-one meetings between faculty and learners.
4. SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE

2010 Call for Papers
We encourage individual and group submissions that showcase creative work and/or utilize alternative approaches such as poster sessions, storytelling sessions, dramatic tellings, roundtables. Please click here for additional information [PDF, 335KB].

Upcoming Residency Dates:

• July 2-10, 2010
• January 3-11, 2011
• July 1-9, 2011
• January 2-10, 2012

Initial Academic Residency Information
Upon admission, you will need to reserve your place at an upcoming Academic Residency. You will receive the Academic Reservation Form, a Survey for Learners with Disabilities, and a first-term Registration Form with your acceptance letter. Please return completed forms and Academic Residency deposit/hold fees by the deadline to the Cohort Ph.D. Office at PhDCohort@myunion.edu or 440 East McMillan St., Cincinnati, Ohio, 45206.

In terms of logistics, you are strongly encouraged to make your reservations at the hotel where Union has secured a group rate. Please plan to dress comfortably. You are advised to bring a laptop computer. It is essential that you arrive at the beginning of the Academic Residency and remain through the final session of the Academic Residency.  See above for Academic Residency dates. Please let us know in advance should you have any special requests so that we may properly support you. If you have any questions about the Academic Residency, please call at 1-800-486-3116 ext. 1142 or PhDCohort@myunion.edu.