Fall 2013 Book Club

The CETL Book Club provides an opportunity for professional development through cross-disciplinary dialogue about provocative issues related to teaching and learning. Says Spring 2013 & Fall 2010 Book Club participant Bill Wresch, Associate Dean of the College of Business, "Wouldn't it be nice if we could get together with a small group of friends once in a while and talk about what really matters—our teaching? That's the Book Club—a chance to read  a book with profound ideas about teaching and learning, and then talk about it with other people who share our struggles. What a great way to spend a few hours."

Fall 2013 Book Club Details

Tuesdays (9/25, 10/1, 10/29, 11/12, & 11/19 ) from 1:40-2:40 p.m.

In the Pollock Alumni House 

Fall 2013 Book

This Fall the Book Club will be reading Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele (2010). 

Registration is limited to eight participants, so please register early.

Books will be provided. Facilitated by Tish Crawford & Stephanie de Montigny.

About the Book

"Through dramatic personal stories, Claude Steele shares theexperimentsand studies that show, again and again, that exposing subjects to stereotypes—merely reminding a group of female math majors about to take a math test, for example, that women are considered naturally inferior to men at math—impairs their performance in the area affected by the stereotype. Whistling Vivaldi offers insight into how we form our senses of identity and ultimately lays out a plan for mitigating the negative effects of “stereotype threat” and reshaping American identities."