Read a teaching-focused book with the CTL. Book clubs typically meet weekly and discuss the text as well as ways we can apply this understanding in our own classrooms and lives. Book clubs are open to anyone interested, including faculty, teaching professors, lecturers, graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and staff. 

Fall 2024

Join CTL Professional Development Lead Preston Cumming alongside instructors of all levels to read and discuss Robert Eaton, Steven V. Hunsaker, and Bonnie Moon (eds) book Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom. During this time, we will have discussion of the text as well as ways we can apply this understanding in our own classrooms and university lives.

The group will meet weekly on Wednesdays from September 11-October 23, 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Mountain Time. Book club will be hosted remotely via Zoom.

Register for Book Club

Purchase/borrow the book from the Boulder Book Store, your local bookstore, search your institution’s library, of directly through the publisher. If you would like to attend and cannot afford the text, please reach out to Preston at Preston.Cumming@colorado.EDU for assistance.

Participants can receive credit toward the CTL's graduate and postdoctoral scholar teaching certificates or micro-credentials. Contact Preston.Cumming@colorado.EDU for details.

Mental health challenges on college campuses were a huge problem before COVID-19, and now they are even more pronounced. But while much has been written about higher education’s mental health crisis, very little research focuses on the role played by those on campus whose influence on student well-being may well be greatest: teachers. Drawing from interviews with students and the scholarship of teaching and learning, this book helps correct the oversight, examining how faculty can—instead of adding to their own significant workloads or duplicating counselors’ efforts—combat student stress through adjustments to the work they already do as teachers.

Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom provides practical tips that reduce unnecessary discouragement. It demonstrates how small improvements in teaching can have great impacts in the lives of students with mental health challenges, while simultaneously boosting learning for all students.