Book Reads
TTaDA Offerings
The Teaching Transformation and Development Academy offers numerous book reads throughout the year focused on leadership; teaching practices; universal design for learning (UDL); diversity, equity, and inclusion; and more.
Spring 2026 Book Read
The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI
Book Read Wrap-up with Tricia Bertram Gallant
Fall 2024 Book Read
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick
The Fall book read will feature Ethan Mollick’s Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI (2024). An instant New York Times bestseller, Co-Intelligence guides readers through the transformative power of new generative AI tools. Mollick, a leading voice in appropriate AI use in higher education and a professor of management at the Wharton School, urges us to engage alongside AI as a “co-worker, co-teacher, and coach.” He assesses its profound impact on education and the economy describing current uses and potential growth. Mollick argues that it is imperative we learn to think and work together with smart machines. He challenges readers to harness AI’s enormous power without losing our identity, to learn from it without being misled and to harness its gifts to create a better human future. One reviewer writes “wide ranging, hugely thought-provoking, optimistic, and lucid, Co-Intelligence reveals the promise and power of this new era.”
Spring 2024 Book Read
The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion by Sarah Rose Cavanagh
This very readable study draws from educational research, psychology, and neuroscience to help faculty better understand the role of emotion in learning. Cavanaugh explores research behind the connections between emotion, engagement, and motivation; explains the integral role of emotion in the learning process; and takes on the myth that emotion is counterproductive to cognitive work.
Fall 2023 Book Read
Bestselling author David Treuer is an Ojibwe Indian from Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, two Minnesota Book Awards, and fellowships from the NEH, Bush Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. His book, 'The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee' was a 2019 finalist for both the National Book Award and Carnegie Medal. He divides his time between his home on the Leech Lake Reservation and Los Angeles, where he is a Professor of English at USC.
Keynote - The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Recording)
Spring 2023 Book Read
Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education by Jay Timothy Dolmage.
As an institution, higher ed has a lot to learn about disability, be it visible or invisible. Dolmage asks us to consider our standard practices and unquestioned assumptions, highlighting the ways in which traditional academic structures can be inaccessible and discriminatory to students, faculty, and staff with disabilities. He also provides insight into how ableism manifests in classrooms and across campus, offering practical strategies for addressing and preventing that. Dolmage's goal is “to affirm disability as a shared and positive identity while challenging the use of disability as something that can be used to disqualify or stigmatize” (7).
We invite the campus community to join this conversation as we address physical, academic, and structural barriers that our students and colleagues face and implement UND's strategic vision for a more inclusive and welcoming future.
This panel discussion will focus on the lived experience of members of the UND community, sharing their insights on ableism in academia.
Panelists include:
Dr. Sherry Fieber-Beyer - Assistant Professor, Space Studies
Hunter Pinke - UND Alumni, BSME-2021 and Former UND Football Captain
James Grijalva - Friedman Professor of Law
Stephanie Yarnell - Psychology major
Academic Ableism Book Read Kick Off
Academic Ableism Book Read Wrap up