Enhance Your Teaching while Connecting with Colleagues
The CEE offers Faculty Reading Circles throughout the year for all USD faculty members. Reading Circles are small, self-paced groups who meet at least once a semester, virtually or in-person, to discuss a selected book, provided by the CEE. By participating, faculty get the opportunity to:
- Read inspiring, useful, and meaningful pedagogical books
- Build and deepen interdisciplinary collegiate relationships
- Apply new teaching strategies and practices
Summer 2026 Book:
Tricia Betram Gallant and David Rettinger
The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI
Preview: Preview: The Opposite of Cheating presents a positive, forward-looking, research-backed vision for what classroom integrity can look like in the GenAI era. Accordingly, the book outlines workable measures teachers can use to better understand why students cheat and to prevent cheating while aiming to enhance learning and integrity. Read more...
Join this circle to:
- Learn why students cheat.
- Design courses with integrity.
- Infuse ethics into teaching and learning.
"...this is an excellent book, and the book circle, an excellent program...Please continue to have these book circles...as it follows the mission of USD - in the spirit of learning and collaboration."