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Teaching & Learning in Higher Education: Resources for Faculty

Each quarter, the TLC hosts community reads and discussion groups. To join or learn more, contact Angela.Rasmussen@scc.spokane.edu.

List of community reads in the SCC Library collection

2023-24

  • Fall - Braiding Sweetgrass 
  • Winter - Poverty, by America 
  • Spring - Difficult Conversations, Stone 

2022-23

2021-22

  • Fall - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent 
  • Winter - Rethinking Positive Thinking 
  • Spring - Heartland 

2020-2021

  • Fall - So You Want to Talk About Race? 
  • Winter - Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men 
  • Spring - The Art of Thinking Clearly 

2018-2019

  • Fall - Robotproof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 
  • Winter - Blindspot: The Hidden Biases of Good People 
  • Spring - Grit 

2016-2017

  • Fall - Teaching for Critical Thinking 
  • Winter - The End of Average 
  • Spring - Outliers 

List

2024-2025

  • Fall - Minding the Obligation Gap, Sims
  • Winter - Hope Rising, Gwinn and Hellman 
  • Spring - Thanks for the Feedback, Stone & Heen

2023-2024

  • Fall - Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • Winter - Poverty, by America, Matthew Desmond
  • Spring - Difficult Conversations, Stone, Patton and Heen

2022-2023

  • Fall - Weapons of Math Destruction, Cathy O’Neil
  • Winter - The Three Mothers, Anna Malaika Tubbs
  • Spring - Dare to Lead, Brene Brown

2021-2022

  • Fall - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent, Isabel Wilkerson
  • Winter - Rethinking Positive Thinking, Gabriele Oettingen 
  • Spring - Heartland, Sarah Smarsh

2020-2021

  • Fall - So You Want to Talk About Race? Ijeoma Oluo  
  • Winter - Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado Perez
  • Spring - The Art of Thinking Clearly, Rolf Dobelli

2019-2020

  • Fall - The Coddling of the American Mind, Lukianoff and Haidt
  • Winter - Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Tatum
  • Spring - Factfulness, Tatum

2018-2019  

  • Fall - Robotproof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Auon
  • Winter - Blindspot: The Hidden Biases of Good People, Banaji and Greenwald
  • Spring - Grit, Duckworth

2017-2018

  • Winter - Hillbilly Elegy, Vance
  • Spring - Why We Make Mistakes, Hallinan

2016-2017 (SLAC Critical Thinking Book Group)

  • Fall - Teaching for Critical Thinking, Brookfield
  • Winter - The End of Average, Rose
  • Spring - Outliers, Gladwell