Each year, we take a tour of blogs in our larger community, with themed series each day bringing us to new and varied voices. This year we explored how reading university press publications can help show us how to think and act for the betterment of the world.
Monday: How to be a better (global) citizen
University of Virginia Press
How to Cope with Polarization
Amitai Etzioni
Purdue University Press
Looking Back and Looking Forward; Thinking Local and Thinking Global
Justin Race
University of Wisconsin Press
#ReadUP on Global Citizenship
University Press of Florida
6 Ways You Can Help Immigrants Facing Detention and Deportation
Carl Lindskoog
University of Toronto Press
Thinking about Thinking: Kenneth S. Stern and How to Be a Better (Global) Citizen
Anna Maria Del Col
Vanderbilt University Press
Awakening Democracy through Public Work
Jenna Phillips
University of Minnesota Press
Citizenship in a Time of Wageless Life
Ian Shaw and Marv Waterstone
University of Nebraska Press
I’m Not a “Global Citizen” but I’m Happy to be Transnational
Robin Hemley
University of North Carolina Press
A New Modernism for a New America
Alex Dika Seggerman
Tuesday: How to speak up and speak out
University of Chicago Press
How to Speak Up and Speak Out (on media objectivity)
Lewis Raven Wallace
Syracuse University Press
Speaking Up and Speaking Out (on Title IX and equity in sports)
Kelly Belanger
Fordham University Press
How to Speak Up and Speak Out (on the Statue of Liberty and immigration)
Joan Marans Dim
Harvard Education Press
Chasing Ghosts: Racism and US Education
Tracey A. Benson
University of British Columbia Press
On Jody Wilson-Raybould’s From Where I Stand
Megan Malashewsky
University of Nebraska Press
Small Truths, Big Truths, and Memoir as Reckoning
Timothy J. Hillegonds
University of Toronto Press
The University Press in the Post-Truth Era
University of Regina Press
Reclaiming Lands, Resisting Violence
University of Arizona Press
An Excerpt from Yolqui, A Warrior Summoned from the Spirit World
Roberto Cintli Rodriguez
University of South Carolina Press
Thoughts from William B. Gravely, author of They Stole Him Out of Jail
Northwestern University Press
Speaking Up to Speak Out about Lee Bey’s Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side
Wednesday: How to be an environmental steward
University of Pittsburgh Press
Four Ways to Be a Better Environmental Steward
Patricia M. DeMarco
Duke University Press
How To Be An Environmental Steward
Selected book and journal authors
Columbia University Press
Enacting Environmental Stewardship by Acting Locally
Karl Coplan
University of California Press
Climate Change is Changing What it Means to Be an Environmental Steward
Sarah Jaquette Ray
Yale University Press
Nine Steps to a Sustainable Future
Selected contributors to A Better Planet
Bucknell University Press
Who Speaks for the Non-Human? The Humanists
Tim Wenzel
Oregon State University Press
Creating a Coalescence of Values in Oregon
Marcy Cottrell Houle
University Press of Mississippi
Documenting the Dying Histories of Coastal Communities
Jessica H. Schexnayder
Harvard University Press
How to Plant a Forest
Lucia Jacobs
University of Toronto Press
How to Be an Environmental Steward
Alex Keys
University of South Carolina Press
Environmental Stewardship
Robert C. Clark and Tom Poland, authors of the forthcoming Carolina Bays: Wild, Mysterious, and Majestic Landforms
University of Minnesota Press
Cultivating Care for One of the Ocean’s Most Majestic Creatures
Jennifer E. Telesca
Thursday: How to build community
Temple University Press
How to Build Community (on Monument Lab)
Paul Farber and Ken Lum
Syracuse University Press
Community (on The Soul of Central New York)
Sean Kirst
University of Nebraska Press/Potomac Books
Building Community through Truth Telling
Katya Cengel
Athabasca University Press
How to Build Community (tips from Small Cities, Big Issue and 2 other books)
Princeton University Press
How to Build Community (from the very local to the global)
Christie Henry and Lyndsey Claro
MIT Press
On the MIT Press Bookstore
University of Toronto Press
How to Build Community (among professors and poets)
Vannessa Barnier
Journal of Scholarly Publishing: Fifty Years and a Community
Mary Lui and Robert Brown
Vanderbilt University Press
Nashville Adult Literacy Council: Building Community, Word by Word
Jenna Phillips
University of Michigan Press
The Press’s Role in Building Digital Scholarship Communities
Charles Watkinson
Johns Hopkins University Press
Read. Think. Act.
Robin W. Coleman
University Press of Kansas
The University Press and Building Community
Derek Helms
University of North Carolina Press
Author Interview: Lana Dee Povitz on Stirrings: How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice
Siobhan Barco
Friday: How to practice compassion
Columbia University Press
How Empathy Can Help Us Become More Compassionate
Elizabeth A. Segal
Penn State University Press
Benjamin Dix, author of Vanni: A Family’s Struggle through the Sri Lankan Conflict, on the harrowing experience of leaving Sri Lanka behind
University of Illinois Press
How the Transformations Series Invites Us to Practice Compassion
University of Nebraska Press
An excerpt on Loving Our Neighbor, from The Heart of Torah
Rabbi Shai Held
Bucknell University Press
My Novel Body
Jason S. Farr
Beacon Press
Extending Humanity and Compassion at Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp
by Peter Jan Honigsberg
University of South Carolina Press
A quote from Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement, a collection of first-person accounts of people responsible for the development of LGBTQ organizations in South Carolina
University or Toronto Press
You Are What You Read
Natalie Fingerhut