MCC Daily Tribune

TCC: Join a Reading Group for Relationship-Rich Education

Please note: If you have already signed up for a reading group in response to announcements in June, thank you! We have all your information, and there's no need to sign up a second time. But please recruit a colleague or your entire department/office to sign up, too!

Announced last week, the Teaching and Creativity Center's programming theme for 2021-22 is Pedagogies of Care, and the book we've selected as a grounding text for thinking about relationships as a practice of care in higher education is Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College, a recent (2020) book by Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert. As described by the publisher, "Drawing on nearly 400 interviews with students, faculty, and staff at 29 higher education institutions across the country, Relationship-Rich Education provides readers with practical advice on how they can develop and sustain powerful relationship-based learning in their own contexts. Ultimately, the book is an invitation—and a challenge—for faculty, administrators, and student life staff to move relationships from the periphery to the center of undergraduate education." [emphasis added]

All MCC employees (and students, too!) have unlimited access to the e-book version of the book, thanks to the license secured by the Library.

Since discussing a common text is a form of relationship-building, the TCC invites MCC employees in all offices and divisions at the College to sign on to read the book together, participate in discussion groups, and work through how to apply the lessons of Relationship-Rich Education to their areas of influence.

Think, too, about opportunities you see for partnering with the TCC to co-sponsor standalone events throughout the year that stem from the ideas in Relationship-Rich Education and/or to highlight the ways in which your office/program embodies a pedagogy—and practice—of deep care at MCC.

Please indicate your interest by filling out this form, and encourage your colleagues to fill out the form too! 

**Access to the form is restricted to authorized MCC users in Microsoft 365 Online. You must be logged in with your MCC account credentials. Go to office.com, enter your MCC email address, and then follow the process from there. If you are logged into some other Microsoft account, sign out and then sign in using your MCC account information.**

Amy Burtner
Teaching and Creativity Center
09/08/2021