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Fall 2021 Reading Groups
Popol Vuh
by Anonymous (Translator Michael Bazzett)
Discussion Leader: Julie Hempel
Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time
By Linda B. Nilson
Discussion Leader: Jim Hebda
Three Tigers, One Mountain
By Michael Booth
Discussion Leader: Mindy Landeck
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students
by Anthony Abraham Jack
Discussion Leader: Jessica Healy
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
By Mary Roach
Discussion Leader: Renee Countryman
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by Clint Smith
Discussion Leader: Kelli Carroll
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
By Frank Dikötter
Discussion Leader: Ruchan Kaya
Spring 2022 Reading Groups
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By Suzanne Simard
Discussion Leader: Hank Gorman
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
By Safiya Noble
Discussion Leaders: Andrew Smith/Lisha Storey
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Discussion Leader: Colin Foss
Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and the Revolution in the Americas
by Roberto Lovato
Discussion Leaders: Julie Hempel/Patrick Duffey
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
By Gretchen McCullouch
Discussion Leader: Meg Brandl
The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux
By Cathy Davidson
Discussion Leader: Catherine Bowman