Spring 2023

Learning Circles are small communities of faculty and staff who meet on a regular basis during a single semester. Each community reads a particular book or set of articles on learning and teaching and discusses the book during their sessions.  All participants receive a Certificate of Participation for their Faculty Portfolio. Books are provided to each participant. Starting the first week of the semester, books can be picked up outside from FL 416 between 9am - 4:30pm. 

Click on the book images below for date, time, and registration! Click on the book title for the Amazon description.

Unraveling Faculty Burnout
 

Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal

Monday @ 2pm on the following dates: 1/23, 2/6, 2/27, 3/13, 3/27, 4/10

Livestream on Teams 

Facilitated by Trevor Morris

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The Future of Higher Education: How AI Systems Are Transforming the Way We Learn
 

The Future of Higher Education: How AI Systems Are Transforming the Way We Learn

Monday @ 3pm on the following dates: 1/23, 2/6, 2/27, 3/13, 3/27, 4/10

Meet in Room: FL 505

Facilitated by Armen Ilikchyan 

CANCELLED 

Unraveling Faculty Burnout
 

Seeing Patients: A Surgeon’s Story of Race and Medical Bias

Monday @ 3pm on the following dates: 1/23, 2/6, 2/27, 3/13, 3/27, 4/10

Livestream on Teams 

Facilitated by Dianne McAdams-Jones

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Teaching Cross Cultural Strengths
 

Teaching Across Cultural Strengths: A Guide to Balancing Integrated and Individuated Cultural Framework in College Teaching

Tuesdays @ 1 pm on the following dates: 1/24, 2/7, 2/28, 3/14, 3/28, 4/11

Livestream on Teams

Facilitated by Aicha Rochdi and Claudia Jorgensen

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radical hope book cover
 

Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto

Tuesdays @ 2 pm on the following dates: 1/24, 2/7, 2/28, 3/14, 3/28, 4/11

Livestream on Teams

Facilitated by Rachel Arocho

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The courage to teach book cover
 

The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

Wednesdays @ 1pm on the following dates: 1/25, 2/8, 3/1, 3/15, 3/29, 4/12

Livestream on Teams

Facilitated by Allison Ensign

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what works may hurt book cover
 

What Works May Hurt―Side Effects in Education

Wednesdays @ 2pm: 1/25, 2/8, 3/1, 3/15, 3/29, 4/12

Livestream on Teams

Facilitated by Acacia Overono

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Because Internet book cover
 

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

Thursdays @ Noon: 1/26, 2/9, 3/2, 3/16, 3/30, 4/13

Livestream on Teams

Facilitated by Angela Beatie and Annie Smith

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Advancing Online Teaching book cover
 

Advancing Online Teaching: Creating Equity-Based Digital Learning Environments

Thursdays @ 1pm: 1/26, 2/9, 3/2, 3/16, 3/30, 4/13

Livestream on Teams

Facilitated by Sam Gedeborg

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Reconceptualization fac dev in service learning
 

Reconceptualizing Faculty Development in Service-Learning/Community Engagement (PART 2)

Thursdays @ 2 pm: 1/26, 2/9, 3/2, 3/16, 3/30, 4/13

Livestream on Teams

Facilitated by Jon Westover, Leandra Hernadez, & Janel Mitchell 

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Vagina Obscura book cover
 

Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

Thursdays @ 3pm: 1/26, 2/9, 3/2, 3/16, 3/30, 4/13

Meet in room: FL 516

Facilitated by Wioleta Fedeczko

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Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science book cover
 

Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science

Thursday @ 4pm: 1/26, 2/9, 2/23, 3/23, 4/6, 4/20

Livestream on Teams

Facilitated by Erin Riggs

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Ungrading book cover
 

Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) 

Fridays @ 12pm: 1/27, 2/10, 3/3, 3/17, 3/31, 4/14

Livestream on Teams

Facilitated by Sandie Waters

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