Sustained Capacity Building for SoTL Through a Disciplinary-Specific Faculty Learning Community: Responding to the Moment

In the field of linguistics, SoTL is still an emerging research area, both in recognition and practice (Witman & Richlin 2007). We developed and facilitated an inter-institutional, discipline-specific Faculty Learning Community (FLC; Cox 2003) on SoTL. We chose the FLC model because of its inherent participant-driven flexibility in structure, direction, and goals. In this talk, we share how our expansion of the FLC-based approach allowed us not only to elevate SoTL advocacy in our discipline, but also to respond nimbly to urgent issues brought on by the global pandemic as well as the disciplinary and societal reckonings with inequity and injustice.