Book Clubs
See what the Center for Faculty Excellence is reading during Fall 2024!
REGISTRATION COMING SOON!!!
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 (or picked up from the CFE for the First Gen book).
Feel free to sign up for more than one book club!
First Gen: A Memoir
Book Club Co-Facilitator: Iris Sanchez, Director of Hispanic Serving Institution Initiatives
Book Club Co-Facilitator: Mayra Hernandez, Assistant Director for First Generation College Student Outreach
Book Club Co-Facilitator: Meghan Cook, Assistant Director of the center for faculty excellence
Book Author: Alejandra Campoverdi
Book Description (Excerpted from Amazon):
With candor and heart, Alejandra retraces her trajectory as a Mexican American woman raised by an immigrant single mother in Los Angeles. Foregoing the tidy bullet points of her resume and instead shining a light on the spaces between them, what emerges is a powerful testimony that shatters the one-dimensional glossy narrative we are often sold of what it takes to achieve the American Dream. In this timely and revealing reflection, Alejandra draws from her own experiences to name and frame the challenges First and Onlys often face, illuminating a road to truth, healing, and change in the process.
Book Club Meeting Dates (Two Options)
- Virtual Book Club
- Sept 10th, 1 to 2:30 p.m., virtual only
- Oct 1st, 1 to 2:30 p.m., virtual only
- Oct 22nd, 1 to 2:30 p.m., virtual only
- Town hall, date and time – TBD
- In-person Book Club
- Sept 9, 1 to 2:30 p.m., in-person only, location TBD, Hammond
- Sept 30, 1 to 2:30 p.m., in-person only, location TBD, Hammond
- Oct 21, 1 to 2:30 p.m., in-person only, location TBD, Hammond
- Town hall, date and time – TBD
Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning
Book Club Facilitator: Emily Hixon, Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence
Book Author: José Antonio Bowen & C. Edward Watson
Book Description (Excerpted from Amazon):
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way we learn, work, and think. Its integration into classrooms and workplaces is already underway, impacting and challenging ideas about creativity, authorship, and education. In this groundbreaking and practical guide, teachers will discover how to harness and manage AI as a powerful teaching tool. José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson present emerging and powerful research on the seismic changes AI is already creating in schools and the workplace, providing invaluable insights into what AI can accomplish in the classroom and beyond.
Book Club Meeting Dates (Two Options)
- Virtual Book Club
- Sept 17, 10 to 11:30 a.m., virtual only
- Oct 15, 10 to 11:30 a.m., virtual only
- Nov 19, 10 to 11:30 a.m., virtual only
- In-person Book Club
- Sept 25, 10 to 11:30 a.m., in-person only, location TBD, Hammond
- Oct 16, 10 to 11:30 a.m., in-person only, location TBD, Hammond
- Nov 20, 10-11:30am, in-person only, location TBD, Hammond
Books Read in Previous Book Clubs
Revisit the books that the Center for Faculty Excellence has used in previous book clubs.
- The Sustainability Mindset Principles: A Guide to Developing a Mindset for a Better World by Isabel Rimanoczy (Summer 2024)
- The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois (Summer 2024)
- The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial by David Lipsky (Summer 2024)
- Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown (Summer 2024)
- 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)