Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal (2022) The last few years have taken a disproportionate toll on women when it comes to stress and exhaustion. Rebecca Pope-Ruark, Associate Professor of English at Elon University, offers tangible advice to curb feelings of mental and physical exhaustion for those in academia today. Drawing upon stories collected… Read more »
Books
DEIJ Book Recommendations
Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People By Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald 272 pages http://blindspot.fas.harvard.edu/Book In Blindspot, Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald explore hidden biases that we all carry from a lifetime of experiences with social groups – age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status, or nationality. “Blindspot” is a metaphor… Read more »
Book – Assessing Student Learning by Design
If you have taken a course design course at the university level, you have most likely been introduced to the concept of Backwards Design: https://citl.indiana.edu/teaching-resources/course-design/index.html. The backward design process asks instructors to structure student learning around assessments that are intentionally designed to provide evidence that students have achieved the course goals. This concept comes from the classic… Read more »
8 Summer Reads on DEI
The National Institute on Scientific Teaching has shared a few recommendations for summer reading. This list focuses on books that may help us deepen our understanding of Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) topics in higher education. Full descriptions are provided in the links by clicking on the titles. I have also added a link to… Read more »
Distracted Students
One book I have put on my summer reading list for a re-read is Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It. e-book (On Order for IU Library), physical copies are available. The book is written by James M. Lang, a Professor of English and the Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at… Read more »