Book Clubs
See what the Center for Faculty Excellence is reading during Summer 2024!
Last Date to Register: May 3, 2024
After registration, you will receive meeting information (including a Zoom link, if applicable) as well as Outlook calendar invitations, and shortly thereafter, the book will be sent to your home.
Feel free to sign up for more than one book club!
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Book Club Facilitator: Kelly Herbert, Clinical assistant professor of nursing
Book Author: Brené Brown
Book Description (Excerpted from Amazon):
In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances—a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection.
Book Club Meeting Dates
- Monday, June 10, 9:00 a.m to 10:30 a.m. in-person Hammond and/or via Zoom
- Monday, July 8, 9:00 a.m to 10:30 a.m. in-person Hammond and/or via Zoom
- Monday, August 5, 9:00 a.m to 10:30 a.m. in-person Hammond and/or via Zoom
The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
Book Club Co-Facilitator: Barbara Mania-farnell, interim department chair of biological sciences and Professor
Book Club Co-Facilitator: Leslie Dorworth Thompson, Aquatic Ecology Speciality
Book Author: David Lipsky
Book Description (Excerpted from Amazon):
In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deniers had control of the climate story, Senator James Inhofe and his family built an igloo on the Washington Mall and plunked a sign on top: AL GORE’S NEW HOME: HONK IF YOU LOVE CLIMATE CHANGE. In The Parrot and the Igloo, best-selling author David Lipsky tells the astonishing story of how we moved from one extreme (the correct one) to the other.
Book Club Meeting Dates
- Monday, June 10, 11 a.m to noon in-person Hammond and/or via Zoom
- Monday, July 15, 11 a.m. to noon in-person Hammond and/or via Zoom
- Monday, August 5, 11 a.m. to noon in-person Hammond and/or via Zoom
The Souls of Black Folk
Book Club Facilitator: Antwonna Smith,customer service representative for registration
Book Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
Book Description (Excerpted from Amazon):
The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a cornerstone of African-American literary history.To develop this groundbreaking work, Du Bois drew from his own experiences as an African-American in the American society. Outside of its notable relevance in African-American history, The Souls of Black Folk also holds an important place in social science as one of the early works in the field of sociology.
Book Club Meeting Dates
- Wednesday, June 5, 2024, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in-person Hammond and/or via Zoom
- Wednesday, June 19, 2024, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in-person Hammond and/or via Zoom
- Wednesday, July 3, 2024, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in-person Hammond and/or via Zoom
The Sustainability Mindset Principles: A Guide to Developing a Mindset for a Better World
Book Club Facilitator: David woronecki-Ellis, societal impact and technology steward
Book Author: Isabel Rimanoczy
Book Description (Excerpted from Amazon):
As we increase our awareness of the planetary challenges and how they intersect with the discipline or profession we choose to focus on, we have put our attention on the external forces and impacts. What remains untouched however is the set of beliefs, values, assumptions, mental processes, and paradigms that we hold and share: our mindset. But how do we change a mindset?
This book is the first to introduce the 12 Principles for a Sustainability Mindset, presenting educators with a framework that makes it easy to include them into teaching plans and lessons of any discipline. Written in a very clear and practical way, the book provides examples, checklists, tips, and tools for professionals and educators. It transforms the development of a much-needed mindset for sustainability into an accessible, fun and intuitive task.
Book Club Meeting Dates
- Tuesday, May 28, 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in-person Hammond and/or via Zoom
- Tuesday, June 11, 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in-person Hammond and/or via Zoom
- Tuesday, June 25, 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in-person Hammond and/or via Zoom
- Tuesday, July 9, 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in-person Hammond and/or via Zoom
Books Read in Previous Book Clubs
- The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life by Shawn Achor (Spring 2024)
- Ask Powerful Questions: Create Conversations That Matter by Will Wise and Chad Littlefield (Spring 2024)
- Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College by Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert (Spring 2024)
- Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom by Kelly A. Hogan and Viji Sathy (Fall 2023)
- Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal by Rebecca Pope-Ruark (Summer 2023)
- Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert (Summer 2023)
- Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel (Spring 2023)
- The Power of Moments by Chip Heath and Dan Heath (Spring 2023)
- UNgrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), edited by Susan D. Blum (Fall 2022)
- How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) by Joshua R. Eyler (Summer 2022)
- College Students Sense of Belonging – A Key to Educational Success for All Students by Terrell L. Strayhorn (Summer 2022)
- Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate Into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills and Motivation by Saundra Yancy McGuire (Spring 2022)
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, How we can learn to fulfill our potential by Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. (Spring 2022)
- Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele (Fall 2021)
- Keeping Us Engaged: Student Perspectives (and Research-Based Strategies) on What Works and Why by Christine Harrington and 50 college students (Fall 2021)
- Becoming a Student-Ready College: A New Culture of Leadership for Student Success by Tia Brown McNair, et al. (Summer 2021)
- Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism, and Social Marginalization by Cia Verschelden (Spring 2021)
- Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes by Flower Darby and James M. Lang (Fall 2020, Spring 2021)
- The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom and Justice by Anthony Ray Hinton (Fall 2020)
- Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James M. Lang (Spring 2020)
- The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean (Spring 2020)
- What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain (Spring & Summer 2019)
- Generation Z Goes to College by Corey Seemiller and Meghan Grace (Fall 2019)