Scholarship
The Center for Faculty Development (CFD) seeks help the Faculty at Union University achieve scholarship, pursue traditional advancement within your discipline, and conduct and disseminate their scholarship.
Initiatives
Fall and Winter Workshops
At the beginning of the fall and spring semesters faculty participate in an extended development opportunity that includes either departmental and interdepartmental dialogue on current topics or concurrent sessions offered by faculty colleagues and campus leaders.
In the Academy
Multiple sessions are offered each semester for all faculty regarding important aspects of professional advancement, grant opportunities, and research leave opportunities.
Faculty Dialogue Groups
Believing that iron sharpens iron, faculty facilitate discussions over lunch on selected books or topics of interest in teaching, scholarship, and the Christian faith and practice.
Definitions and Expectations for Union Faculty (.pdf)
This is the inaugural edition of Scholarship Definitions and Expectations for Union Faculty to all departments and faculty. This is a document that represents years of hard work by departments and schools to articulate the kinds of scholarship that best express the knowledge and methods of inquiry in each academic discipline.
Journals
Recent and Forthcoming Books
- United in Jesus, United in Joy: Sermons on Philippians.
Edited by Ray Van Neste & Justin Wainscott. Union University Press (May 2025).
Union Contributor(s): Ray Van Neste (Editor & Chapter 7: The Secret of Contentment (Philippians 4:10-20)); Justin Wainscott (Editor & Chapter 8: The Bookends of the Letter (Philippians 4:21-23)); Kenneth R. Lewis (Chapter 4: Unusually Useful for Christ (Philippians 2:19-30)).
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- Six Keys for Graduates: Things I Wish I Had Been Told When I Graduated.
John D Kinchen III. Independently published (December 2024).
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- Training Library Instructors: A Guide to Training Graduate Students and Librarians.
Matthew Weirick Johnson. Assoc of College & Research Libraries (November 2024).
Union Contributor(s): Amber Owrey (Chapter 12: "Benefits of an Elementary School Teaching Background").
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Recent Scholarship
- ARTICLE - "Effects of Pharmacological Dose of Vitamin C on MDA-MB-231 Cells" by Lunawati L. Bennett (March 2025)
- ARTICLE - "‘Our Most Fatal Tendency’: The Problem of Our Gleeful Historical Ignorance" by Ray Van Neste (February 2025)
- PRESENTATION - "Calculus with Infinitesimals: Simplifying Computations and Improving Understanding Using the Approximation Relation" by Bryan Dawson (January 2025)