​​​​​​​​Here is a sampling of notable publications by CSU faculty dedicated to professional growth for faculty and improved learning incomes for students. Contact Emily Magruder​ if you’d like to suggest an addition to this page.

Faculty-Authored Books & Articles

Here is a sampling of notable publications by CSU faculty dedicated to professional growth for faculty and improved learning outcomes for students. 

Contact Emily Magruder if you’d like to suggest an addition to this page.

Transparent Design in Higher Education Teaching and Leadership

This book serves as a guide for educators to implement a transparency framework institution-wide for improved learning and student retention. Chapter 10 on using transparency to close opportunity gaps was co-authored by Emily Daniell Magruder, Ph.D., along with faculty and faculty developers at CSUN and Cal State LA.

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Structure Matters: Twenty-One Teaching Strategies to Promote Student Engagement and Cultivate Classroom Equity

Kimberly Tanner, Ph.D., professor of biology at San Francisco State who leads the Science Education Partnership and Assessment Laboratory (SEPAL), wrote this important article published in the fall 2013 issue of the journal CBE Life Sciences Education.

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Equity-Minded Faculty Development: An Intersectional Identity-Conscious Community of Practice Model for Faculty Learning

Kimberly A. Costino, Ph.D., dean of undergraduate studies at CSU Dominguez Hills, describes a community of practice model for engaging faculty in a scholarly approach to teaching and curriculum development based in the science of learning to promote equity-minded institutional transformation in the February 2018 issue of the Metropolitan Universities Journal.​

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Learning from the Learners: Successful College Students Share Their Effective Learning Habits

This book, edited by Elizabeth Berry and Cynthia Z. Rawitch, professors emerita, and Bettina J. Huber, retired director of Institutional Research, all of CSUN, is based on a 10-year study that asked successful students of diverse backgrounds to report what they do as learners to succeed.

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Universal Design for Learning: Assistance for Teachers in Today’s Inclusive Classrooms

Sally A. Spencer, Ed.D., professor of special education at CSUN, documents the benefits of universal design for learning for today’s diverse classrooms in the Summer 2011 issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Teaching and Learning.

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