Leaders: Mindy Landeck Book: Mentor Coaching: Effective Mentoring for the Personal and Professional Development of Young Adults Author: Terrice Thomas Description: In Mentor Coaching, activist and educator Terrice Thomas addresses the myriad ways in which Gen Z young people report feeling ill-equipped for success during their college years and woefully unprepared for the demands of… [Read More]

Leader:  Terry Hoops Book:  Becoming Abolitionists Author:  Derecka Purnell Description: This book is groundbreaking in responding to the issue of the centrality of police administrations in US communities. It argues that community organization needs to move beyond the police to create multifaceted democratically structured forms of community governance and organization. The book came out of… [Read More]

Leader: Bob Cape Book: The Small College Imperative: Models for Sustainable Futures Author: Mary B. Marcy Description: As faculty at a small liberal arts college (SLAC), we share concerns of the general populace—and have our own—about the place of SLACs in the higher education landscape, about their relation to the world our students/alumni live in,… [Read More]

Leader:  Keith Kisselle Book:  Entangled Life:  How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures Author:  Merlin Sheldrake Description: When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively… [Read More]

Leader:  Josh Edge Book:  Calling Bullsh**: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World Author:  Carl T. Bergstorm & Jevin D. West Description: In our personal and professional lives, we are bombarded with data-driven analyses every day. These analyses are often dressed with an air of mathematical impartiality. In reality, though, those analyses are precisely what… [Read More]

Leader:  Claire Wolnisty Book:  On Juneteenth Author:  Annette Gordon-Reed Description: “Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since,… [Read More]

Leader: Andra Petrean Book: American Prometheus:  The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Author: Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin Description: The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a… [Read More]

Leader:  Felix Harcourt Book:  Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything Author:  Kelly Weill Description:  Even in overtly conspiracy-minded times, flat earth theory remains a joke. But, as Kelly Weill argues, it’s a joke with serious implications for how people understand the world around them. Bringing scientific expertise, sociological… [Read More]