Program Overview 

The AAC&U Keystroke Writing Residency is a year-long, virtual professional development experience designed for STEM faculty, campus administrators, program directors, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars who are committed to advancing their scholarship  – but crave a more stress-free way to do it. 

The residency offers protected time to think, create, read, imagine, and write – all paired with the intentionality of a morning mindfulness practice that reduces stress, heightens self-awareness, sparks creativity, and prepares the mind for focused intellectual work. Through its weekly 90-minute sessions, with all cameras on, Keystroke also creates a visible community of colleagues reading, thinking, and writing alongside one another. This shared presence generates a quiet energy – a sense that you are not in this work alone.

And, when academic scientists like you have the space to think, write, and share what they know, the value of higher education becomes harder to overlook. Their experiences become evidence. Effective teaching and research practices become knowledge that can travel. And institutional outcomes become part of a larger story about what colleges and universities contribute to students, their surrounding communities, the scientific enterprise, and society as a whole.

Participant Outcomes