While college faculty go about their jobs—doing what is seen (teaching and publishing) and unseen (class prep, grading, and researching)—little time is given to the uncomfortable acknowledgment that those acts have legal ramifications. Navigating Choppy Waters: Key Legal Issues College Faculty Need to Know, by Kent Kauffman, addresses topics that are vital for those in academia.
2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘Qualitative Research Design and Methods: An Introduction’
Qualitative Research Design and Methods: An Introduction, by Kathleen DeMarrais, Kathryn Roulston, and Janie Copple, situates qualitative research within the history of the field and integrates this history within discussions of specific research designs. The text discusses traditional as well as emerging qualitative research approaches, providing a theoretically grounded approach to designing and implementing qualitative research studies.
2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘Teaching Online Classes’
With the recent boom in online education causing a rapid change in mainstream learning methodologies, Teaching Online Classes: Exercises and Techniques, by Elina Kallas, Adult Educator and Researcher, Estonia, examines how to teach adults in synchronous virtual classes. Elina Kallas details essential advice for improving learner engagement in these unique remote environments. A crucial resource for lecturers, professors and adult educators adapting to evolving learning environments.
2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘How to Use Digital Learning With Confidence and Creativity’
How to Use Digital Learning with Confidence and Creativity, edited by Gearóid Ó Súilleabháin, Donna Lanclos and Tom Farrelly, Munster Technological University, Ireland, is an accessible and practical guide to key topics in the field of digital learning. It offers advice and insights not just about core digital learning platforms and tools but about a range of ethical, pedagogical, ideological, and strategic challenges arising at the intersection of digital technology and teaching practice.
2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘Nutrition for a Changing World’
Written and illustrated in the style of Scientific American magazine, Nutrition for a Changing World by Jamie Pope and Steven Nizielski engages students like no other nutrition textbook. Chapters focus on real stories—about real people and real science—bringing context and relevance to the core science. Infographics serve as “science storyboards,” guiding students step by step through essential processes and concepts. Coverage of timely topics—gluten-free diets, the diabetes epidemic, global nutrition—exemplify the book’s contemporary approach to nutrition science.
Congratulations to the 2025 TAA Conference Scholarship Recipients
We are thrilled to announce the five TAA members who have been awarded a 2025 TAA Conference Scholarship: Akua Oppong-Anane, West Virginia University; Nathan Camp, New Mexico State University; Elizabeth Frasco, New York University; Gabriela Peterson, New Mexico State University; and Renee Blanchard Hawkins, Texas Women’s University.
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.