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Student Affairs Book Club
Returning Summer 2020!
JOIN US!
The Office of the Vice Chancellor-Student Affairs (VCSA) welcomes all staff to join our professional development book club series. Become part of a community to develop learning opportunities while building better practices through shared knowledge and dialogue.
Book Club Participation Guidelines
To engage in meaningful, transparent, and inclusive dialogue, members of the first book club meeting developed a series of ground rules that all participants agreed to follow during the conversation.
Here's our non-exhaustive working list of participation guidelines:
- Treat people with respect
- Provide others with the benefit of the doubt
- Be mindful of your input (be concise, timely in response, and make space)
- Recognize that everyone's input is valuable
- Use "I" statements
- Call people "in," don't call them "out"
View our current Book Club selection—as well as materials from previous meetings—below.
October 2019
Schooltalk: Rethinking What We Say About—and to—Students Every Day
by UC San Diego Professor Mica Pollock
October 4, 2019 - Book Club Discussion
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Red Shoe Room - Price Center West
October 11, 2019 - Speaker Series: Workshop with Dr. Pollock
9 – 11 a.m.
Cross Cultural Center - Communidad Room
August 2019
Debunking the Myth of Job Fit in Higher Education and Student Affairs
Edited by Brian J. Reece, Vu T. Tran, Elliott N. DeVore and Gabby Porcaro
August 6, 2019
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
July 2019
June 2018
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by J. D. Vance
June 20, 2018
Noon – 1:30 p.m.
• Hillbilly Elegy - Handout (PDF)
March 2018
iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy—and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood
by Jean M. Twenge
March 2, 2018
Noon – 1:30 p.m.
October 2017
Free Speech on Campus
by Erwin Chemerinski and Howard Gilman
October 25, 2017
12:15 – 1:30 p.m.
• Free Speech on Campus - Handout (PDF)
• Book Club - Agenda 10/25/2017 (PDF)
August 2017
Why Aren't We There Yet?
Edited by Jan Arminio, Vasti Torres, and Raechele L. Pope
August 2, 2017
12:15 – 1:30 p.m.
• Why Aren't We There Yet? - Handout (PDF)
• Case Study Scenarios (PDF)
May 2017
Are You Smart Enough?
by Alexander Astin
May 31, 2017
12:15 – 1:30 p.m.
• Are You Smart Enough? - Handout (PDF)
• Book Club - Agenda 5/31/2017 (PDF)