TAA Executive Director Kim Pawlak Receives 2025 TAA President’s Award

TAA Executive Director Kim Pawlak received the 2025 TAA President’s Award from TAA Board President Paul Krieger. The TAA President’s Award is given at the discretion of the TAA Board President based on service given to TAA in the past year.

“This distinguished honor reflects your exceptional leadership, vision, and tireless dedication to the mission of the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA),” said Krieger.

“Under your guidance as Executive Director, TAA has flourished. Your strategic leadership has significantly expanded the Association’s membership, bringing together a broader, more diverse community of academic and textbook authors. You have championed innovative programming, strengthened member support services, and enhanced the visibility and impact of TAA across the academic landscape.

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.

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TAA Joins AAC&U Public Statement on ‘Call for Constructive Engagement’

TAA Executive Director Kim Pawlak has signed a statement, recently released by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), from numerous college and university presidents and leaders of scholarly societies in response to ongoing actions by the federal government affecting higher education.

The educational and nonprofit leaders were convened by AAC&U and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The statement, titled “A Call for Constructive Engagement,” marks the first time current presidents have spoken out collectively in large numbers about these issues. “We speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education,” the statement says.

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.

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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.

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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