Fall Faculty Book Club

During the fall semester CAT sponsors a book club for Xavier faculty. We gather three times to discuss what we've read. Often our discussions inform other initiatives. For example, the 2011-2012 FaCTS theme on self-authorship was inspired in part by the 2010 reading of The Heart of Higher Education.

2019

Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America's Educationally Underprepared by Mike Rose

2018

Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America by George Yancy

2017

The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy by Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber

2016

Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James M. Lang

2015

How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching by Susan A. Ambrose, Marsha C. Lovett, Richard E. Mayer (Foreword), Michael W. Bridges, Michele DiPietro, Marie K. Norman

2014

Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect by David W. Orr

Co-sponsored with Read Today, Lead Tomorrow:

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolfe

2013

Sentipensante (Sensing/Thinking) Pedagogy: Educating for Wholeness, Social Justice and Liberation by Laura I. Rendón

2012

What the Best College Students Do by Ken Bain

2011

How Black Colleges Empower Black Students: Lessons for Higher Education by Frank W. Hale Jr.

2010

The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal by Parker J. Palmer

2009

The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom by Stephen D. Brookfield

2008

A Will to Learn: Being a Student in an Age of Uncertainty by Ronald Barnett

2007

What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain

See also: Books Inventory