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What They're Reading!
Liesa Stamm, Ph.D.
What They're Reading Editor, JCC
Senior Research Associate
Rutgers University Center for Children and Childhood Studies Evaluation/Research Associate
Research for Better Schools

This section of the Journal of College and Character serves as a forum for learning about new publications related to encouraging moral and civic learning on campus, as well as revisiting some established contributions to this growing field. Each issue of the Journal will include a major book review solicited by the Book Review Editor, Liesa Stamm. If you have recommendations for this review, contact the Book Review Editor directly at liesastamm@earthlink.net

We also want to know more about what publications have inspired your work. We welcome submissions of recommended books and articles that contribute to our knowledge about important issues in working with students on our campuses and inform our practice as student affairs personnel, faculty, and administrators. Your submissions can include short summaries of and/or excepts from your recommended readings. Please submit your recommended readings to The Journal of College and Character at liesastamm@earthlink.net

Liesa Stamm has contributed to higher education for many years in a variety of capacities at the institutional, state and national levels. She taught cultural anthropology and international relations at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and currently at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, CT. She served as a senior academic affairs administrator at the Connecticut Department of Higher Education for a number of years and conducted institutional and program accreditations, as well as participating in a range of state policy and program development initiatives. Liesa Stamm is the former Director of the Civic Engagement Cluster, a national project to promote civic learning and engagement in higher education, and is a co-author with Arthur Chickering and Jon Dalton of Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education. Currently, among other initiatives, she is contributing to the implementation of an early college high school at the University of Hartford.

·  What They're Reading—Commencement
Review by Reviewed by Kimberly Nehls,
Association for the Study of Higher Education

· What They're Reading—A Novel Window on the Academy: Commentary by Liesa Stamm, Contributing Editor
Liesa Stamm, Contributing Editor,
Rutgers University Camden

· What They're Reading—Turnaround Leadership for Higher Education
Review by Liesa Stamm, Contributing Editor,
Rutgers University Camden

· What They're Reading—Civic Engagement in Higher Education: Concepts and Practices
Review by Liesa Stamm, Contributing Editor,
Rutgers University Camden

· What They're Reading—Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution: How the Integral Worldview is Transforming Politics, Culture and Spirituality
Review by Peter Laurence, Education as Transformation

· What They're Reading—Recommendations from Readers
Prepared by Liesa Stamm
Saint Joseph College

· What They're Reading—Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Review by Sandra G. Nadelson
Boise State University

· What They're Reading—Hooking Up: Sex, Dating and Relationships on Campus

· What They're Reading—Community College Missions in the 21st Century

· What They're Reading—How to Talk About Hot Topics on Campus: From Polarization
Review by Liesa Stamm
Rutgers University

· What They're Reading—What the Best College Teachers Do
Review by Wade G. Livingston
Clemson University

· What They're Reading—Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy
Review by C. Clinton Harshaw
Presbyterian College

· What They're Reading—Can We Talk About Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation
Reviewed by Jacob K. Tingle
Trinity University

· What They're Reading—God’s Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America
Reviewed by Kimberly Nehls
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

· What They're Reading—“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” And Other Conversations About Race
Reviewed by Shannon M. Finning-Kwoka,
Clemson University

· What They're Reading—Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
Review by Ronald E. Miller, Jr.,
Presbyterian College

· What They're Reading—Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers
Review by Dave McIntire,
Azusa Pacific University

· What They're Reading—The Decline of the Secular University
Review by Donald A. Crosby,
Colorado State University

· What They're Reading—Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education
Review by Ashley Tull,
University of Arkansas

· What They're Reading—Putting Students First: How Colleges Develop Students Purposefully
Review by Robyn H. Sanderson, Presbyterian College

· What They're Reading—The Skeptical Passionate Christian: Tool for Living Faithfully in an Uncertain World
Review by Dave McIntire, Azusa Pacific University

· What They're Reading—Higher Ground: Ethics and Leadership in the Modern University
Review by Ashley Tull, University of Arkansas

· What They're Reading—When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today
Review by Greg Henley, Presbyterian College

· What They're Reading—Choosing Civility: The Twenty-Five Rules of Considerate Conduct
Review by Melanie McClellan

· What They're Reading—College of the Overwhelmed: The Campus Mental Health Crisis and What To Do About It
Review by C. Yvette Taylor

· What They're Reading—Theoretical Frameworks in Qualitative Research
Review byWilliam R. Molasso

· What They're Reading—Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education
Review by Elizabeth Broughton and Tamara N. Stevenson

· What They're Reading—Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time
Review by Dawn Vavrik

· What They're Reading: There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem
Review by James F. Conneely

· What They’re Reading—Higher Education for the Public Good: Emerging Voices from a National Movement
Review by Cynthia A. Wells

· What They're Reading: Take Back Higher Education: A Book Review and Discussion of Neoliberalism and Critical Pedagogy
Review by Daniel Saunders

· What They're Reading: The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
by Parker J. Palmer
Review by Robert A. Bryant

· What They're Reading: God on the Quad by Naomi Schaefer Riley
by Naomi Schaefer Riley
Review by Eric G. Lovik

· What They're Reading: New Beginnings and Old Traditions—An Overview by Bill McDonald

· Exiles from Eden: Religion and the Academic Vocation in America
by Mark R. Schwehn.
Review by Dr. Robert A. Bryant

·  Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What It Needs to Do to Recover It, by Alan Wolfe
Review by Dr. Bud Warner

· How Do I Find Time To Read?
Introduction by Bill McDonald

· Why We Read
Introduction by Bill McDonald

· A Hidden Wholeness, by Parker J. Palmer
Review by Pamela C. Crosby

· Sacred Journey, by Frederick Buechner
Review by Pamela C. Crosby

· An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education and the Future of America
Review by Pamela C. Crosby

· Leading With Soul: An Uncommon Journey of Spirit
Review by Pam Crosby

· God At the Edge
Review by Vita Mazza

· Creating Campus Community: In Search of Ernest Boyer’s Legacy
Review by Ashley Tull

· The Sunday After Tuesday: College Pulpits Respond To 9/11
Review by J. Cameron West

· Ethics and College Student Life: A Case Study Approach
Review by Jon C. Dalton

· Religion on Campus
Review by Allen Proctor

· Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach: Meditations on the Classroom
Review by Peter Laurence

· In Therapy We Trust: America’s Obsession with Self
Review by Joseph E. Davis

· Measures of Religiosity
Review by Marguerite McClinton and Pu-Shih Daniel Chen

· The Abolition of Man Reconsidered
Review by Greg Wiggan

· No Neutral Ground: Standing by the Values We Prize in Higher Education
Review by Marguerite McClinton

· Reflections on Forgiveness and Spiritual Growth
Edited by Andrew Weaver and Monica Furlong

· Mountains and Passes: Traversing the Landscape of Ethics and Student Affairs Administration
by Patricia Lampkin and Elizabeth Gibson
REVIEW by Jeff Doyle

· In Therapy We Trust: America’s Obsession with Self Fulfillment
by Eva S. Moskowitz

· The Death of Character on the Moral Education of America's Children
by James Davison Hunter

· Learning That Lasts: Integrating Learning, Development, and Performance in College and Beyond
by Marcia Mentkowski and Associates

· Master Success: Create A Life Of Purpose, Passion, Peace And Prosperity
by Bill Fitzpatrick
REVIEW by Margaret Mary Fitzpatrick, S.C.

· Intersecting Voices: Dilemmas of Gender, Political Philosophy, and Policy
by Iris Marion Young
REVIEW by Josephine Carubia

· Voices: The Educational
Formation of Conscience
by Thomas F. Green
REVIEW by Beth Raps

· RECOMMENDED READINGS
by Karen Kennelly, President of Mount St. Mary's College

· RECOMMENDED READINGS
by Carol Schneider, President of the Association of American Colleges and Universities

· RECOMMENDED READINGS by Tom Lickona
Director of the Center for the Fourth and Fifth Rs at SUNY - Cortland

· RECOMMENDED READINGS by Tom Ehrlich
Senior Scholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

· RECOMMENDED READINGS by Anne Colby
Senior Researcher, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

· Common Fire: Lives of Commitment in a Complex World
by Laurent Parks Daloz, Cheryl Keen, James Keen, and Sharon Daloz Parks
RECOMMENDED by Neal Berte

· Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership
by Garry Wills
RECOMMENDED by Neal Berte

· Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility
by Thomas Lickona
RECOMMENDED by John Welty

· Civic Responsibility and Higher Education
Edited by Tom Ehrlich
RECOMMENDED by John Welty
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