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March 2023 Book Recommendations

  • Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases, Paul Holes
  • Easy Beauty, Chloé Cooper Jones.
  • Instant karma, Marissa Meyer
  • Just the Nicest Couple, Mary Kubica
  • The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides
  • Checkout 10, Claire Louise Bennett
  • The Last Necromancer, CJ Archer
  • Acts of Violet, Margarita Montimore
  • The Fifth Season, N.K Jemisin
  • Portrait of a Thief, Grace D. Li
  • After She Wrote Him, Sulari Gentill
  • The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music, Dave Grohl
  • The Candyhouse, Jennifer Egan
  • The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd
  • Hide, Kiersten White
  • Firekeeper’s Daughter, Angeline Coulley
  • Atomic Anna, Rachel Barebaum
  • The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
  • The Overstory, Richard Powers
  • A Beginning at the End, Mike Chen
  • The Diviners, Libba Bray
  • The Maid, Nita Prose

February 2023 Recipes

 

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lending Library

We have a new diversity, equity, and inclusion lending library run out of the dean’s office. See and reserve available books. If you have books you would like to add, please reach out to Michele.
Books include:
  • This is My America written by UO’s very own Kimberly Johnson. This novel young adult novel which touches on the very timely topic of racial injustice will be released on July 28. Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time–her dad has only 267 days left. Then the unthinkable happens. The police arrive in the night, and Tracy’s older brother, Jamal, goes from being a bright, promising track star to a “thug” on the run, accused of killing a white girl. Determined to save her brother, Tracy investigates what really happened between Jamal and Angela down at the Pike. But will Tracy and her family survive the uncovering of the skeletons of their Texas town’s racist history that still haunt the present?
  • So you want to talk about race by Seattle’s own Ijeoma Oluo. “In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide.”
  • The Racial Healing Handbook, a novel written by Anneliese A. Singh is a nationally recognized expert on transgender resilience. This novel is a powerful and practical guide to help you navigate racism, challenge privilege, manage stress and trauma, and begin to heal. The Racial Healing Handbook offers practical tools to help you navigate daily and past experiences of racism, challenge internalized negative messages and privileges, and handle feelings of stress and shame.
  • Go Together, a novel by Shola Richards teaching the concepts of how Ubuntu will change how you live, work, and lead. Workplace positivity expert Shola Richards (Making Work Work) explores a radical new concept for rethinking our personal, professional, and social lives: togetherness.
  • Making Work Work, another novel by Shola Richards explains the positive work solution for any work environment. Shola Richards had reached the end of the road: after nearly two years at a soul-sucking job, he felt numb and suicidal. So he quit and devoted himself to nothing less than transforming the workplace, turning it into a space of respect, courtesy, and endless energy. Making Work Work focuses on inspiring current and future leaders to start a movement that will banish on-the-job bullying, put meaning back into work, and enhance coworkers’ happiness and engagement. Richards, whose popular blog has a worldwide following, explains why inaction is insane, why we must move forward with positivity, and why the “abc” employees (read on to find out what “abc” stands for) are so destructive. This motivational guide will stay in readers’ hearts and minds long after they finish reading it.
  • Me And White Supremacy, leads readers through a journey of understanding their white privilege and participation in white supremacy, so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on Black, Indigenous and People of Color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too. The book goes beyond the original workbook by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and includes expanded definitions, examples, and further resources. Me and White Supremacy Book Homepage
  • Care Work, a novel by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a toolkit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities of liberation where no one is left behind. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms.
  • How To Be An Antiracist, a #1 New York Times Best seller novel by Ibram x. Kendi discusses the importance of fighting racism even, and especially where we don’t realize it exists. In this book, Kendi weaves together an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science, bringing it all together with an engaging personal narrative of his own awakening to antiracism. How to Be an Antiracist is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a truly just and equitable society.
  • My Grandmother’s Hands, another New York Times Best Seller written by Resma Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of body-centered psychology. He argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn't just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans—our police. My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.
  • White Fragility, by Robin Diangelo explores the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence.
 

Virtual Dance Party and More!

Below are the various resources shared in the weekly emails from Connie and Michele. Dance parties are held every week. Reach out to Michele for Zoom information or click here to make a content recommendation or to request a song.

Click here for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources

Happening Now

Dining, Shopping, & Events

  • Gardening Tips and Tricks
  • The FOOD For Lane County Youth Farm still has late summer and fall produce.
  • Looking for virtual games to play with family and friends?
    • Among Us: Join your crewmates in a multiplayer game of teamwork and betrayal! Play online or over local wifi with 4-10 players as you attempt to hold your spaceship together and return back to civilization. But beware...as there may be an alien impostor aboard! One crewmate has been replaced by a parasitic shapeshifter. Their goal is to eliminate the rest of the crew before the ship reaches home. The Impostor will sabotage the ship, sneak through vents, deceive, and frame others to remain anonymous and kill off the crew. While everyone is fixing up the ship, no one can talk to maintain anonymity. Once a body is reported, the surviving crew will openly debate who they think The Impostor is. The Impostor's goal is to pretend that they are a member of the crew. If The Impostor is not voted off, everyone goes back to maintaining the ship until another body is found. If The Impostor is voted off, the crew wins!
    • The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31: An alien lifeform has infiltrated a bleak and desolate Antarctic research station assimilating other organisms and then imitating them. In the hidden identity game The Thing Infection at Outpost 31 , you will relive John Carpenter’s sci-fi cult classic in a race to discover who among the team has been infected by this heinous lifeform.
  • How are your eyes feeling with all this screen time? If you are looking for good options for blue blocking spectacles, check out these brands:
  • Looking for quality fresh produce, check out Emerald Fruit. The process is simple, call them to place your order, they will assign you a pick-up time, and you stay in your car to receive the delivery. They have limited hours, so check their website for more information. Have other suggestions for places to purchase from, please share.
  • Looking for veggie starts for your garden, you can virtually visit Mountain View Farm where you can order plants for your garden via email at slkerrigan@hotmail.com. Have other farm suggestions, send them along.
  • October 11 is National Coming Out Day, first celebrated in 1988 and observed annually ever since. Click here to learn more and here for NPR’s Life Kit Episode on navigating the coming out conversation and supporting the LGBTQ+ people in your life.

Just keep swimming - at-home exercise & wellness options

Personal/Professional Development

Corona Kitchen Recipes

Book Recommendations

  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. While we are stuck in place, embark on a virtual journey through this classic which parodies practically every well-worn sci-fi plot device in existence. Jen C., a Powell’s employee, says, “A hapless hero with astonishing luck? Ill-tempered aliens hell-bent on destroying Earth? Pithy advice (e.g., "DON'T PANIC")? Check, check, and check — and so much more. Even non–sci-fi geeks will be charmed by this hilarious and endlessly entertaining read, with (of course) sequels following.”
  • The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari tells the extraordinary story of Julian Mantle, a lawyer forced to confront the spiritual crisis of his out-of-balance life. On a life-changing odyssey to an ancient culture, he discovers powerful, wise, and practical lessons that teach us to: Develop Joyful Thoughts, Follow Our Life's Mission and Calling, Cultivate Self-Discipline and Act Courageously, Value Time as Our Most Important Commodity, Nourish Our Relationships, and Live Fully, One Day at a Time."
  • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. This book is so beautifully written, it is hard to put down, and even harder to make sense of as it hits on so many social and political topics that we just cannot ignore.
  • Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. "When Jacob Portman was a boy, his grandfather regaled him with stories of his fantastic life at Miss Peregrine's home during the Second World War, even sharing photos of the remarkable children with whom he resided. As Jacob grew up, though, he decided that these photos were obvious fakes, simple forgeries designed to stir up his youthful imagination. Or were they...? Following his grandfather's death - a scene Jacob literally couldn't believe with his own eyes - the sixteen-year-old boy embarks on a mission to disentangle fact from fiction in his grandfather's tall tales. But even his grandfather's elaborate yarns couldn't prepare Jacob for the eccentricities he will discover at Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children!”
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. “Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.”
  • Where’d You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple which is also a movie starring Cate Blanchett: “A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this whip-smart and "divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times). Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect; and to 15-year-old Bee, she is her best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette vanishes. It all began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle--and people in general--has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errand...”
  • Juneteenth: A Novel by Ralph Ellison. Juneteenth is a tour de force of untutored eloquence. Ellison sought no less than to create a Book of Blackness, a literary composition of the tradition at its most sublime and fundamental." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Time "Juneteenth...threatens to come as close as any since Huckleberry Finn to grabbing the ring of the great American Novel."
  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Written in the form of a letter to his young son, this book was UO’s common reading selection for 2016-17 and In February of 2017, Coates spoke to a packed house at Matthew Knight Arena. In this book, Coates details how one of the most powerful nations was built on the myth of racial superiority, creating long-lasting damage in the lives and perceptions of black women, men, and children in America. Told through personal narrative, Coates’ story is one of firsthand experience, retold history, and hope for a better future. He attempts to answer the question, “how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?”
  • The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Boundaries by Erin Meyer, INSEAD professor of organizational behavior. Meyer's book is grounded in today’s global business world and looks at real-life cases of international collaborations to draw out lessons for deeper understanding. The Culture Map offers strategies for “even those who are culturally informed, travel extensively, and have lived abroad” to deal “with the cross-cultural complexity that affects their team’s day-to-day effectiveness.”
  • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker. This book helps the reader transform any event into a true, and Forbes says, Let's Start Meeting like this! If you would like to view a mini masterclass recorded in May, 2018, check out her book launch from the Strand Book Store in New York. 
  • Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson. Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer’s coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.
  • I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan, bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting To Exhale. “Big-hearted, genuine, and universal, I Almost Forgot About You shows what can happen when you face your fears, take a chance, and open yourself up to life, love, and the possibility of a new direction.”
  • Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe. "A masterful history of the Troubles. . . Extraordinary. . .As in the most ingenious crime stories, Keefe unveils a revelation — lying, so to speak, in plain sight."—Maureen Corrigan, NPR
  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi. “This is NOT a history book. This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are where we are. A book about race.”
  • The Overstory by Richard Powers. “The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of - and paean to - the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.”
  • The Expanse by James S.A. Corey. “The Expanse is a 9 book science fiction series from James S.A. Corey, the pen name for a collaboration between Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. Two hundred years after migrating into space, mankind is in turmoil. When Jim Holden, a reluctant ship’s captain, and Joe Miller, a washed-up detective, find themselves involved in the case of a missing girl, what they discover brings our solar system to the brink of civil war, and exposes the greatest conspiracy in human history.”
  • All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. “From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.”
  • Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik. “You can't spell truth without Ruth. Only Ruth Bader Ginsburg can judge me. The Ruth will set you free.”
  • Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell. “Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world.”
  • Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. “We tend to think of mankind as the unique and inevitable masters of this Universe. In reality, we were not the only human species that existed on Earth, and most of our progress happened only in the recent past. In “Sapiens”, Yuval Noah Harari gives a detailed account of human history, presenting the facts and myths of how mankind has dominated the planet, the driving forces shaping our lives and how we can think about our impact on Earth and our collective future. In this summary, we’ll outline some of the key ideas in the book.”
  • Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror by Lincoln Michel. “In this playful, inventive collection, leading literary and horror writers spin chilling tales in only a few pages. Each slim, fast-moving story brings to life the kind of monsters readers love to fear, from brokenhearted vampires to Uber-taking serial killers and mind-reading witches.”
  • The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. “First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.” [PS – If you’d rather a watch than a read, this book inspired a Netflix series of the same name.]
  • The Lottery. This is a short story published in 1948 and the full text can be read at the above link.
  • 10% Happier by Dan Harris. “The Book in Three Sentences: Practicing meditation and mindfulness will make you at least 10 percent happier. Being mindful doesn’t change the problems in your life, but mindfulness does help you respond to your problems rather than react to them. Mindfulness helps you realize that striving for success is fine as long as you accept that the outcome is outside your control.”
  • Geek Love by Katherine Dunn. “Engaging, creepy, and extraordinary story of a family of purposefully designed circus freaks, as told by the hunchback albino dwarf sister. On another level, it is a story about identity and belonging: How do you define yourself in terms of your family? Your culture? Your body? Your religion? How do you know what or who you really are?”
  • Sundown by John Joseph Matthews. “Sundown concerns the Osage tribe and the difficulty many Native Americans had with integrating with white American society. The main character is a mixed-race Osage native who struggles with the oil industry’s impact on his tribe’s culture, though not in the way you might expect.”
  • In difficult times, it can be hard to find things to be grateful for. This week, we have several book recommendations, all related to gratitude and the personal satisfaction that can be attained from giving thanks.
  • Caste by Isabel Wilkerson. “In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.”
  • 100 Cookies: The Baking Book For Every Kitchen by Sarah Kieffer. “Though sourdough has been America’s lockdown sweetheart, for me the antidote to every grim newsflash has been the humble cookie. Baking blogger Sarah Kieffer sorts her cookies into categories, including classics (snickerdoodles) and bars (rocky road brownies), fruits (white chocolate, rosemary and apricot cookies) and fillings (ginger cookies with salted caramel ice cream). And her viral “pan-banging” technique, which gives cookies a crisp ridged edge, gets its own chapter. Whether you nibble to make them last or wolf them down like it’s the end times, I can’t think of a sweeter justification for your quarantine 15.” — T. Susan Chang, food writer
  • Wintering: The Power Of Rest And Retreat In Difficult Times by Katherine May. “English writer Katherine May’s beautiful and unintentionally but uncannily timely book is about what she calls “wintering,” a way to weather tough periods when you feel cut off, sidelined or overwhelmed. Brought low by a perfect storm of personal challenges, May learns to slow down, hibernate and regroup. She becomes convinced that the cold has healing powers and explores how other creatures and cultures cope with the dark, frigid season. She takes up ice swimming, cradles an amazingly soft hibernating dormouse and considers the profusion of wolves and snow in fairy tales. May finds solace in her explorations, and readers, especially in these trying times of social distancing, will too.” –Heller McAlpin, book critic
  • The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai. “Informed by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s family history, The Mountains Sing is a fictionalized remembrance of a turbulent 20th-century Việt Nam. Told alternately through the eyes of Diệu Lan and her granddaughter Hương, we follow four generations of the Trần family as they experience the French colonial period, the Great Hunger of 1945, Land Reform and the Vietnam War (or the American War, as it’s known in Việt Nam). Quế Mai’s first novel in English is lyrical and at once heart-wrenching and hopeful. Quế Mai has described the book as her “desperate call for peace and for humans to love other human beings more.”
  • The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates. “Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her — but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known.”
  • One of the eight romance novels written by Selena Montgomery, aka Stacey Abrams.
  • Outlander series “a series of historical romance science fiction novels by American author Diana Gabaldon. The Outlander series focuses on 20th-century British nurse Claire Randall, who time travels to 18th-century Scotland and finds adventure and romance with the dashing Highland warrior Jamie Fraser.”
  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline “In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.”
  • The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama “In July 2004, four years before his presidency, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners’ minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or what Obama called ‘the audacity of hope.”
  • Insubordinate by Ebo Barton “Insubordinate is spoken word poet, Ebo Barton's first collection of work. Through this collection of work they discover themselves, acknowledge their history and navigate a world not ready for their existence.”
  • Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson. "Just As I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. In these pages, I am indeed Cicely, the actress who has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. Yet I am also the church girl who once rarely spoke a word. I am the teenager who sought solace in the verses of the old hymn for which this book is named. I am a daughter and mother, a sister, and a friend. I am an observer of human nature and the dreamer of audacious dreams. I am a woman who has hurt as immeasurably as I have loved, a child of God divinely guided by His hand. And here in my ninth decade, I am a woman who, at long last, has something meaningful to say.” –Cicely Tyson
  • Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi. "The story begins in 1619—a year before the Mayflower—when the White Lion disgorges “some 20-and-odd Negroes” onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. It takes us to the present, when African Americans, descendants of those on the White Lion and a thousand other routes to this country, continue a journey defined by inhuman oppression, visionary struggles, stunning achievements, and millions of ordinary lives passing through extraordinary history. ”
  • The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore. "Within the origin of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of feminism in the twentieth-century.”
  • I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb "I Am Malala is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons.”
  • Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid "A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup.”
  • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie "Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion—for each other and for their homeland.”
  • The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz "In The Four Agreements, bestselling author don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.”
  • Born A Crime by Trevor Noah. "The memoir of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.”
  • Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. "In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.”
  • Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo. "In 2001, just months after Sept. 11, a plane flying from New York to the Dominican Republic crashed in Queens, killing everyone on board. This is the starting point of Elizabeth Acevedo’s new novel, written in verse, about two teenage sisters, one in New York and the other in the Dominican Republic, who discover each other’s existence when their father dies in the crash. Written in two voices, each sister tells the story from her perspective – navigating the grief, the uncertainty and ultimately the connection to family, together. It’s a beautifully written trip into the lives of two young people in totally different worlds, both yearning for the same things: belonging and identity.” — Elissa Nadworny, reporter/editor, NPR Ed
  • Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. "A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.”
  • One Life by Megan Rapinoe. "Megan Rapinoe, Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women's World Cup champion, has become a galvanizing force for social change; here, she urges all of us to take up the mantle, with actions big and small, to continue the fight for justice and equality.”
  • The Every Stone: Book One of the Gempendium by E.A. Sandrose. "Journey into a rich new world where wonder and peril are never far apart—a tale of poetry-loving pirates, rebel bands of herders, invisible forest creatures, and a mysterious gemstone with a mind all her own.”
  • (Netflix documentary) – Kiss the Ground starring Woody Harrelson. “Science experts and celebrity activists unpack the ways in which the earth's soil may be the key to combating climate change and preserving the planet.” Visit the Kiss The Ground Site to learn more.
  • Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D, Kristoff. “"A deft and uniquely credible exploration of rural America, and of other left-behind pockets of our country. One of the most important books I've read on the state of our disunion."--Tara Westover, author of Educated

Engaging in UO's New Teaching Evaluation System and Tools - March 6, 2020

Training session

Led by Sierra Dawson, from Continuous Improvement and Evaluation of Teaching Senate Committee & Office of the Provost.

  • Q & A for all Business school faculty on how to better understand, use and work with the new Evaluation System & Tools

Presentation slides - 

Suicide Prevention Training - January, 2020

Learning objectives:

  • Increase skills in identifying and responding to persons who may have thoughts of suicide
  • Increase comfort to engage with a person in a conversation about your concern and ways to seek help
  • Refresh knowledge of campus and community resources and how to make an appropriate referral

Diversity & Inclusion Training: Addressing Implicit Bias, Microaggressions and More - October, 2019

Learning objectives:

  • Reflect on your own identities and group memberships
  • Explore your campus commitment to diversity and inclusion, and reflect on your current campus climate
  • Understand key diversity and inclusion concepts including implicit bias, intent and impact, and microaggressions
  • Examine the concept of dialogue and its value in addressing harm within a community
  • Develop skills to intervene during exclusionary moments
  • Discover training strategies for faculty, staff, and students that will equip people with tools to address exclusion within their spheres of influence

Slide Deck: 

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