Provost's Retreat on Teaching and Learning 2023 Provost's Retreat Resources

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Resources from the breakout sessions and keynote addresses

KEYNOTE RESOURCES:

• Bennett, J. (2020, November 19). What if instead of calling people out, we called them in? The New York Times. 
• Manoush Zomorodi. (Host). (2021, December 3). Loretta J. Ross: What if we call people in, rather than calling them out? TED Radio Hour. National Public Radio, Inc. [Listen to the podcast.]
• Ross, L. J. (2021, August). Don't call people out -- call them in. Ted Talks. [Watch the 14-minute video or read the transcript.]
• Ross, L. J. (2019, August 17). I'm a black feminist. I think call-out culture is toxic [Opinion]. The New York Times.
• Ross, L. J. (2019). Speaking up without tearing down. Teaching Tolerance, 61, 19-22.

Additional Resources: 

• Braxton, J., & Francis, C. (2018). The influence of academic rigor on factors related to college student persistence. New Directions for Higher Education 181, 73-87.
• Brooks, J., & McGurk, J. (2022, October 6). Rigor as Inclusive Practice. [Listen to the 36-minute podcast.] [Columbia University CTL webpage for this and additional podcasts about rigor.]
• Campbell, C., Dortch, D., & Burt, B. (2018). Reframing rigor: a modern look at challenge and support in higher education. New Directions for Higher Education 181, 11-24.
• Chew, S. (2023, March 20). The (often misconstrued) relationship between learning, effort, and difficulty The Teaching Professor.
• Draeger, J., del Prado Hill, P., Hunter, L.R, et al. (2013). The anatomy of academic rigor: the story of one institutional journey. Innov High Edu 38, 267-279. 
• Draeger, J., del Prado Hill, P., & Mahler, R. (2015). Developing a student conception of academic rigor. Innov High Educ 40, 215–228.
• Gannon, K. (2023). Why calls for a ‘Return to Rigor’ are wrong: what’s the point of pursuing “solutions” that exacerbate student disengagement, the very problem they are supposed to solve? The Chronicle of Higher Education 69 (20).
• Jack, J., & Sathy, V. (2021). It’s time to cancel the word ‘Rigor’: if it’s code for ‘some students deserve to be here, and some don’t,’ then it needs to go. The Chronicle of Higher Education 68 (4).
• Wolf, M. (2019). Reader Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World. Harper.