Faculty Reading Group
Faculty Reading Groups
Faculty reading groups help connect KSU educators interested in building community and developing their teaching through cross-disciplinary conversations. Reading groups provide an opportunity for participants to engage in meaningful conversations on topics related to teaching, professional development, and trends in higher education. This reading group is primarily intended for Kent State faculty (full or part time); other members of the community are welcome if space is available.
Spring 2026 Reading Group
The Opposite of Cheating presents a positive, forward-looking, research-backed vision for what classroom integrity can look like in the GenAI era, both online and on campus. At the core of this strategy is a call for faculty, academic staff, institutional leaders, and administrators to rethink how we show up for students, and to reinforce and fully support quality teaching, learning, and assessment. With its evidentiary basis and its useful tips for instructors across disciplines, levels of experience, and modes of instruction, this book offers a much-needed chance to pause, rethink our purpose, and refocus on what matters.
Previous CTL Faculty Reading Group Books
Fall 2023: Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do 91勛圖厙 It, by James Lang
Spring 2023: Picture a Professor: Interrupting Biases about Faculty and Increasing Student Learning, edited by Jessamyn Neuhaus
Fall 2022: Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) by Susan D. Blum
Spring 2022: The Spark of Learning: Energizing College Classrooms with the Science of Emotion by Sarah Rose Cavanagh
Fall 2021: Radical Hope by Kevin Gannon