Congratulations to the 2025 TAA Conference Scholarship Recipients!

We are thrilled to announce the eight TAA members who have been awarded a 2025 TAA Conference Scholarship!

These scholarships are awarded to early-career academic authors who meet the following criteria:

  • Be a TAA member in good standing
  • Be currently untenured
  • Have not published a textbook
  • Have published no more than two journal articles to date

This scholarship is designed to support emerging scholars and textbook writers as they grow in their academic journeys. It offers a valuable opportunity to engage with a vibrant community of peers and professionals, gain insights into the world of academic publishing, and take meaningful steps toward a successful writing career.

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BMG Sponsoring 2025 TAA Virtual Conference on Textbook & Academic Authoring

A big thank you to BMG for sponsoring the 2025 TAA Virtual Conference on Textbook & Academic Authoring at the Bronze level.

BMG Solutions empowers learning creators – authors, publishers, and education technology providers – to drive smarter adoption, stronger outreach, and more strategic engagement across the academic landscape.

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2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘Protecting Our Children’

Protecting Our Children: Understanding and Preventing Trauma, Abuse and Neglect in Early Childhood, by Elaine A. Zweig, PhD, Lin Moore, PhD, and Pamela Sawyer, PhD, has been written to assist teachers, childcare and education administrators, health care providers, social service workers, and all who work with young children to recognize and understand the abuse, neglect, and trauma of children. While the book is focused on educational interventions, it also provides information and ideas for professionals in child welfare and health care as well as anyone working with young children, contains practical ideas on working with families and children and information that should better inform their practice, and includes not only history and theory but also best practices in working with young children. There are forms and resources to help those who work with and teach young children.

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An Interview with 2025 TAA Conference Keynote Speaker Gerald Friedland on the Future of AI and Textbook Publishing

What happens when a veteran mathematics textbook author and a leading AI scientist exchange ideas on the future of textbook publishing? In anticipation of his namesake keynote at TAA’s 2025 Virtual Textbook & Academic Authoring Conference, Michael Sullivan connected with Gerald Friedland—textbook author and AI Scientist at Amazon AWS—for a thoughtful conversation on artificial intelligence, authorship, and the evolving landscape of academic publishing. Friedland will expand on these ideas in his session, “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Textbook Publishing: Opportunities and Challenges,” on Friday, June 6, from 9–10 a.m. ET.

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2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘Engaging Citizenship’

ngaging Citizenship, by Lauren M. Balasco, Jennifer Forestal, and Claire Abernathy, introduces foundational concepts in political science through the lens of citizenship, democracy, and civic engagement, highlighting the relevance of the discipline to students’ lives and encouraging them to become engaged and empowered citizens. Engaging Citizenship offers a rich and balanced introduction to all four subfields of Political Science, in conversation with one another.

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