If you are looking for suggestions for summer reading, you might turn to Google only to discover it seems everyone has a reading list. PBS has a list of America’s 100 most-loved books. Local county libraries have formal summer reading programs for kids and adults. Newspapers and magazines publish summer reading lists. Even celebrities have… Read more »
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6th Annual CITL Summer Reading List
Increasingly, conversations around campus and Zoom have included some sort of reference to fatigue. It seems to be an amorphous discussion that circles the shared feeling rather than an explicit discussion of the current situation and strategies to address the fatigue. In one of these recent conversations with a colleague, he stated that he was… Read more »
What Inclusive Instructors Do
Through their national, multipart study of instructors at a variety of higher educational institutions, Tracie Marcella Addy, Derek Dube, Khadijah A. Mitchell, and Mallory E. SoRelle sought to identify how participants define inclusive teaching and what practices they implement in their own courses. One of the results of this work is a comprehensive resource that… Read more »
Teaching is a Radical Act of Hope
In his recent book, Historian Kevin Gannon, claims that to teach well is a radical act based in hope. It is radical in the aim of fundamental, root-level transformation and hopeful in that it imagines a better future for students because of this transformation. In describing his pedagogy of radical hope, he lays a foundation… Read more »
CITL Summer Reading List
The CITL staff regularly reads new books on teaching & learning, both for our own interest and to better serve you. This summer we have collectively read Stories from the Front of the Room (Harris, Sellers, Clerge, & Gooding, 2017). In this book, the authors have compiled a series of letters from faculty of color… Read more »