Workshops, Consultations, and Book Clubs

The Opposite of Cheating

• October 6
• October 20
• November 2

In these days of an ever-expanding internet, generative AI, and term paper mills, students may find it too easy and tempting to cheat, and teachers may think they can’t keep up. What’s needed, and what Tricia Bertram Gallant and David A. Rettinger offer in this timely book, is a new approach—one that works with the realities of the twenty-first century, not just to protect academic integrity but also to maximize opportunities for students to learn.

The Opposite of Cheating presents a positive, forward-looking, research-backed vision for what classroom integrity can look like in the GenAI era, both in cyberspace and on campus. Accordingly, the book outlines workable measures teachers can use to better understand why students cheat and to prevent cheating while aiming to enhance learning and integrity.

The Sirens' Call

• September 24
• October 8
• October 22
• November 5
• November 19
• December 3

We all feel it—the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. Something has changed utterly: For most of human history, the boundary between public and private has been clear, at least in theory. Now, as Chris Hayes writes, “With the help of a few tech firms, we basically tore it down in about a decade.” Hayes argues that attention has become a commodified resource extracted from us, and from which we are increasingly alienated. 

Sirens are designed to compel us, and now they are going off in our bedrooms and kitchens at all hours of the day and night, doing the bidding of vast empires, the most valuable companies in history, built on harvesting human attention. As Hayes shares, “Now our deepest neurological structures, human evolution­ary inheritances, and social impulses are in a habitat designed to prey upon, to cultivate, distort, or destroy that which most fundamentally makes us human.” The goal of the Sirens’ Call is to help us wrest back control of our lives.

One Classroom at a Time

• October 6
• October 20
• November 3
• November 17

In One Classroom at a Time, David Gooblar explains the psychological hardships facing many marginalized students–including stereotype threat and belonging uncertainty–and provides detailed remedies. This wide-ranging guide also offers advice on mitigating the burdens of financial insecurity and designing classes that work for all students, regardless of disability. The emphasis throughout is on helping instructors and administrators understand not just the principles of equitable pedagogy but also the reasoning behind them: not just what works, but why it works. One Classroom at a Time shows how we can tailor pedagogy to today's students so that all of them can secure the education and success they deserve.