First Day to Final Grade, Second Edition
A Graduate Student's Guide to Teaching
by Anne Curzan and Lisa Damour

What Professors Are Saying
"I've adopted your First Day to Final Grade book for use with our one-quarter seminar for new Mathematics Department Teaching Assistants at Ohio University. I've long felt that the difficulty in crafting such a seminar lies in helping graduate students through the basics of first teaching experiences (where 'basics' shouldn't be confused with 'simplicities'). Remembering my own experience in such a course, I know that it is easy to feel patronized; yet I also remember feeling as though I had that teaching thing 'figured out.' As instructor for the course, I'm happy to find your book and respect the way that it charts an appropriate path and tone through first college teaching experiences."
—---Professor Robert Klein, Department of Mathematics, Ohio University

Football U.
Spectator Sports in the Life of the American University
by J. Douglas Toma

A balanced look at the use of athletic programs as a tool in "branding" universities and in building community spirit, support, and identity both on campus and off.

What Professors Are Saying
"...I'll be using Football U. in my spring class, 'Patriotism, Consumerism, and Group Identity.' This is a first year writing course that will focus on issues of how we come to develop identity through collective traits and interests. Being at Duke, we'll spend the Spring semester immersed in Blue Devil Basketball, and I want my students to have a better sense of how 'their team' serves larger institutional interests. We'll also be looking at group identity brought about by accident of birth (race/ethnicity, gender, nationality/statehood, religion), as well as other groups of active choice (fraternities/sororities, labor unions, and consumer brand loyalties). I think Toma's book fits this course perfectly."
—Herb Childress, Duke University

Intergroup Dialogue
Deliberative Democracy in School, College, Community, and Workplace
edited by David Schoem and Sylvia Hurtado

A study of the role of communication in the creation of a more just society.

What Professors Are Saying
"I've been working with dialogue and public dialogue for a while, and last year, I offered a selected topics course that I called 'Promoting Public Dialogue.' We try to focus on alternative ways to manage public or civic discourse....This year, I wanted to add a book that focuses on extant public dialogue projects, and your Intergroup Dialogue book is it."
—Ken Cissna, University of South Florida