Book Group

Fall 2025 33 Simple Strategies book cover Book Group Selection

33 Simple Strategies for Faculty: A Week-By-Week Resource for Teaching First-Year and First-Generation Students
 by Lisa M. Nunn.

The book combines practical strategies with research to provide tips to help faculty support students in their transition to university life. During sessions, we’ll discuss the strategies, faculty applications of the strategies, observations of their effectiveness, and more!

Discussions held via Zoom on the following Thursday afternoons, 2-3 p.m.:

September 25, October 9, November 13, December 11


 If you’re interested, please sign up by Monday, September 8.


The CITL Lending Library has 10 copies of the book for UWSP faculty and staff members to check out. The ebook is also available from University Libraries.






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A small incentive is available to faculty/staff who contribute their time to leading a book group. If you are interested in leading a future group, please email the CITL team.








Previous Book Group selections:

Waking Up White book coverWhistling Vivaldi book coverHow Women Decide book coverBandwidth Recovery book coverWeapons of Math Destruction book coverTrans* in College book coverSmall Teaching book coverWhite Folks book coverThe New Education book coverCulturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain book coverThe Autistic Brain book coverEducated book coverScarcity book coverTeaching About Race and Racism book coverHow to Be an Antiracist book coverAlternative Universities book coverCaste book coverGrading For Equity book coverMen and Masculinities book coverWhat Inclusive Instructors Do book coverRelationship-Rich Education book coverMind Over Monsters book coverTeach Students How to Learn book coverDemystifying Disability book coverTeaching With AI book coverGeeky Pedagogy book cover

Waking Up White by Debby Irving
Whistling Vivaldi by Claude M. Steele
How Women Decide by Therese Huston
Bandwidth Recovery by Cia Verschelden
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
Trans* in College by Z. Nikolazzo
Small Teaching by James M. Lang
White Folks by Timothy J. Lensmire
The New Education by Cathy N. Davidson
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta Hammond
The Autistic Brain by Temple Grandin
Educated by Tara Westover
Scarcity by Sendhil Mullainathan
Teaching About Race and Racism in the College Classroom by Cyndi Kernahan
How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Alternative Universities by David J. Staley
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Grading For Equity by Joe Feldman
Men and Masculinities by Daniel Tillapaugh and Brian L. McGowan
What Inclusive Instructors Do by Mallory SoRelle, Tracie Marcella Addy, Derek Dube, Khadijah A. Mitchell
Relationship-Rich Education by Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert
Mind Over Monsters by Sarah Rose Cavanagh
Teach Students How to Learn by Saundra Yancy McGuire
Demystifying Disability by Emily Ladau
Teaching With AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning by Jose Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson
Geeky Pedagogy: For Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers by Jessamyn Neuhaus