Book Club Information

 

Winter/Spring 2024 

No Strings Attached Book Club! How would you like a free book on teaching and learning and the chance to discuss it with colleagues? Our goal is to provide a guilt-free way to motivate your thinking about teaching, make new pedagogically-inclined friends, or gather with old ones. Your choice of books from six selections.

  • Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for intellectuals, introverts, and Nerds Who Want to be Effective Teachers by Jessamyn Neuhaus

  • Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology by Michelle D. Miller

  • Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About it by James M. Lang

  • Missing Course: Everything They Never Taught You About College Teaching by David Gooblar

  • Ungrading: Why Grading Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) by Susan D. Blum

  • The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion by Sarah Rose Cavanaugh

 

Past "Read, Reflect, Reform" Book Clubs

 

2023 Book Club (Spring)

Are You (IN)Clusive? Read, Reflect, Reform  

  • READ: Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom 

  • REFLECT: On the book in peer discussions

  • REFORM: Inclusive teaching practices

Authors and award-winning instructors Kelly A. Hogan and Viji Sathy approach inclusive teaching as a mindset and iterative process that requires intentionality, careful deliberation, and refinement.

2022 Book Club (Winter/Spring)

Are you (IN)Clusive? Read, Reflect, Reform

  • READ: Transformative Approaches to Social Justice Education: Equity and Access in the College Classroom

  • REFLECT: On the book in peer discussions

  • REFORM: Inclusive teaching practices

The Difference, Power, and Discrimination Program in collaboration with the Center for Teaching and Learning - Transformative Approaches to Social Justice Education: Equity and Access in the College Classroom by Nana Osei-Kofi, Bradley Boovy, & Kali Furman

2020 Book Club (Fall)

Are you (IN)Clusive? Read, Reflect, Reform book club included two books to choose from.

  • READ: About Race and Racism in the College Classroom or Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria

  • REFLECT: On the book in peer discussions

  • REFORM: Inclusive teaching practices

About Race and Racism in the College Classroom by Cyndi Kernahan.

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum.

The session was followed by a group discussion of Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum’s book Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in The Cafeteria. It is recommended you view her recording about her book and/or her interview on YouTube.