Previous Book Discussion Groups
2024-25
Fall
- Mind Over Monsters: Supporting Youth Mental Health with Compassionate Challenge
Sarah Rose Cavanaugh - Mathematics for Human Flourishing
Francis Su
Winter
Spring
2023-24
Fall
- Improving Learning and Mental Health in the Classroom
Robert Eaton, Steven V. Hunsaker, and Bonnie Moon - The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students
Anthony Abraham Jack
Winter
- Neurodiversity and Education
Paul Ellis, Amanda Kirby, and Abby Osborne - Against Purity
Alexis Shotwell
Spring
- Grading for Growth
Robert Talbert - “Whatever it is, I’m Against It”: Resistance to Change In Higher Education
Brian Rosenberg
2022-23
Fall
- Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again
Johann Hari - Relationship Rich Education
Leo Lambert and Peter Felten
Winter
- A Good Job: Campus Employment as a High Impact Practice
George S, McClellan, Kristina L. Creager, Marianna Savoca - Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Alice Wong
Spring
- Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success
Louis E. Newman
2021-22
Fall
- Success After Tenure
Edited by Vicki Baker - Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty
James Lang
Winter
- Data Feminism
Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein - iGen: Why Today’s super-Connected Kids are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy – and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood
Jean M. Twenge - World Englishes Reading Group – (selection of readings)
Spring
- Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning
Edited by Susan D. Blum - *Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Fiere
and
*A Third University is Possible
la paperson
* An LTC Student Fellow run book group
2020-21
Winter
- Sexual Citizens
Jennifer Hirsch and Shamus Khan
Spring
- Carleton, the Dakota, and the Dakota Homelands
Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota by Gwen Westerman & Bruce White
We All Go Back to the Land by Suzanne Keeptwo. - Who Gets in and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions
Jeffrey Sellingo - Grading For Equity
Joe Feldman
2019-20
Fall
- Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Janet Mock - An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence
Abigail J. Stewart and Virginia Valian
Winter
- Write No Matter What
Jolie Jensen
Summer 2020
- Small Teaching Online
Flower Darby - Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time
Linda Burzotta Nilson
2018-19
Fall
- THE VALUE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS IN THE MANY WORLDS OF WORK
Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm
Christian Madsberg
And
A Practical Education: Why Liberal Arts Majors Make Great Employees
Randall Stross - Class and Campus Life: Managing and Experiencing Inequality at an Elite College
Elizabeth Lee
Winter
- The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World
Adam Gazzaley and Larry D. Rosen
Spring
- The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
2017-18
Fall
- Multiliteracies in World Language Education
Yuri Kumagai, Ana López-Sànchez and Sujane Wu
Winter
- The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy
Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber
2016-17
Fall
- *Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Sherry Turkle
Winter
- The Enigma of Diversity: The Language of Race and The Limits of Racial Justice
Ellen Berrey - The Quantitative Classroom – (Selected readings)
Spring
- Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Judgements in out Daily Lives
Howard J. Ross
*LTC Student Fellow run book group
2015-16
Fall
- Why Teach? In Defense of a Real Education
Mark Edmundson - Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom
John C. Bean
Winter
- Democracy in Black
Eddie Glaude - Between the World and Me
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Spring
- Trigger Warnings Reading Group – various articles
- Ivory Tower documentary discussion group
- Je suis vivant
Kettly Mars
2014-15
Fall
- Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez
Winter
- Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters
Michael S. Roth - No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education
Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen
Spring
- Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
William Deresiewicz - This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Naomi Klein
2013-14
Fall
- Speaking of Race and Class: The Student Experience at an Elite College
Elizabeth Aries - Higher Education in a Digital Age
William Bowen
Winter
- Academic AdvisingApproaches: Strategies that Teach Students to Make the Most of College
Jayne K. Drake, Peggy Jordan, Marsha Miller eds.
Spring
- Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg
2012-13
Fall
- College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be
Andrew Delbanco - Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other
Sherry Turkle
Winter
- Thinking Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Spring
- Over 19 Million Served
Edited by Michelle Masse and Katie Hogan - *Working
Studs Terkel
*An LTC Student Fellow runn book group
2011-12
Fall
- Eyewitnessing: The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence
Peter Burke - My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture
Susan D. Blum
Winter
- From Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities
Richard DeMillo - Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe
Caroline Walker Bynum
Spring
- Engaging Ideas
John Bean - Social Class on Campus: Theories and Manifestations
Will Barratt
2010-11
Fall
- Integrating Study Abroad into the Curriculum: Theory and Practice Across the Disciplines
Elizabeth Brewer and Kiran Cunningham eds.
Winter
- The Mathematics of Sex: How Biology and Society Conspire to Limit Talented Women and Girls
S. J. Ceci and W. M. Williams - Why Don’t Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What it Means For the Classroom
Daniel Willingham
Spring
- Beautiful Evidence
Edward Tufte - The Nature of College
James Farrell - Why Does College Cost So Much?
Robert B. Archibald and David H. Feldman
2009-10
Fall
- Divine Comedy – Inferno
Dante
Winter
- Divine Comedy – Purgatorio
Dante
Spring
- Faculty Priorities Reconsidered: Rewarding Multiple Forms of Scholarship
KerryAnn O’Meara editor - Complexity: A Guided Tour
Melanie Mitchell - Divine Comedy – Paradiso
Dante
2008-09
Fall
- The Iliad
Homer - Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Maryanne Wolf
Winter
- The Odyssey
Homer - Academic Honesty Reading Group
Spring
- Aenid
Virgil
2007-08
Fall
- Accountability in Higher Education: How Does Carleton Participate in the National Conversation Discussion Group
Winter
- Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Gilbert - The Earth is Faster Now: Indigenous Observations of Arctic Environmental Change
Edited by Igor Krupnik and Dyanna Jolly - Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Elizabeth Kolbert
Spring
- The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy
Lawrie Balfour - James Baldwin: Collected Essays
James Baldwin
2006-07
Fall
- Rewriting
Joseph Harris - The Craft of Research
Wayne Booth, Greg Colomb, and Joseph Williams
Winter
- Liberal Education in its Historical Context – (selection of readings)
Spring
- Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Randall Kennedy