Friday, August 31, 2012

Haley Scholars Fall 2012 Reading Groups


This fall, we'll coordinate four reading activities as part of our work with approximately 125 Johnetta Haley Scholars. The Haley Leadership Academy is a program for students defined as under-represented. The Haley programs are facilitated by Earleen Patterson, who also directs the Student Opportunities for Academic Results (S.O.A.R.) program. My black studies contributors and I organize a series of enrichment programs for the group. 

This year, our four groups are reading Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, Sheena Iyengar’s The Art of Choosing, Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit, and Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses.  The project is designed to:

● Stimulate increased intellectual activity among Haley Scholars and the broader community 
● Strengthen reading, writing, and web-based communication skills among participants
● Create opportunities for participants to collaborate on the implementation of intellectual service work

The reading schedules for the books are as follows:

Outliers
A Community of Outliers - Introduction (Sept. 18)
Accumulative Advantages & Outliers - Chapter 1 (Sept. 25)
Outliers & the 10,000 Hour Rule - Chapter 2 (Oct. 2)
The Trouble with Outliers Pt. 1 - Chapter 3 (Oct. 9)
Outliers & Practical Intelligence - Chapter 4 (Oct. 16)
Outliers and Meaningful Work - Chapter 5 (Oct. 23)
Outliers & Cultural Legacies - Chapter 6 (Oct. 30)
Outliers and PDI - Chapter 7 (Nov. 6)
Rice Paddies and Outliers - Chapter 8 (Nov. 13)
Bargains and Outliers - Chapter 9 (Nov. 27)
Race and Outliers - epilogue (Dec. 4)

The Art of Choosing
The Art & Science of Making Choices - Chapter 1 (Sept. 19)
Choice & the Influence of Cultural Background - Chapter 2 (Sept. 26)
Songs of Ourselves - Chapter 3 (Oct. 3)
Choice Contexts & Informed Intuition - Chapter 4 (Oct. 10)
Values and Choice - Chapter 5 (Oct. 17)
Lessons in the Art of Choosing - Reflections (Oct. 24)
Zeroing in on Choices - Chapter 6: pages 177 – 200 (Oct. 31)
Creativity and Restrictive Choice - Chapter 6: pages 200 – 215 (Nov. 7)
Choosing with less of a focus on being right - Chapter 7: pages 216 – 236 (Nov. 14)
Limiting Choices - Chapter 7: pages 237 – 255 (Nov. 28)
Choice remains an art – Epilogue (Dec. 5)

Academically Adrift

Chapter 1: pages 1 – 19 (Sept. 18)
Chapter 2: pages 33 – 47 (Sept. 25)
Chapter 2: pages 47 - 57 (Oct. 2)
Chapter 3: pages 59 – 73 (Oct. 9)
Chapter 3: pages 73 – 89 (Oct. 16)
Reflections on responses (Oct. 23)
Chapter 4: pages 91 – 109 (Oct. 30)
Chapter 4: pages 109 – 120 (Nov. 6)
Chapter 5: pages 121 – 135 (Nov. 13)
Chapter 5: pages 135 – 144 (Nov. 27)
Academically adrift reflections (Dec. 4)

The Power of Habit
Prologue (Sept. 19)
Chapter 1 (Sept. 26)
Chapter 2 (Oct. 3)
Chapter 3 (Oct. 10)
Chapter 4 (Oct. 17)
Chapter 5 (Oct. 24)
Chapter 6 (Oct. 31)
Chapter 7 (Nov. 7)
Chapter 8 (Nov. 14)
Chapter 9 (Nov. 28)
The Power of Habit reflections (Dec. 5)

Related:
Fall 2012 Black Studies Programming

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