#first year reading

[penguinoncampus]

Summer Reading Books: The Ties That Bind Colleges

Many college orientations include discussion of a common reading assignment. The books are almost always tied to current events and often make strong statements on issues like immigration, race and the perils of technology.

“We collected information on dozens of college summer reading programs and examined an annual survey of hundreds of universities compiled by Penguin Random House. A few trends emerged.”

[bluestockingsmag]

"We identify the first-reading as a critical opportunity to begin redefining a culture at Brown that would ask students to constantly grapple with the myriad social constructs that each of us exist within. Brown’s institutions, just as those in the academy and American society at large, perpetuate systems of inclusion and exclusion that are not yet bled of their racist and classist roots. While Michelle Alexander specifically handles the case of contemporary antiblack and antibrown policing and incarceration strategies, embedding these strategies in historical racism and classism, her book can offer lessons for the immediate Brown community." (X)

First Year Reading Suggestion: The New Jim Crow by Rheem Brooks, Jamie Marsicano, Cherise Morris, Elise Mortenson, Eital Schattner-Elmaleh

[davidpotash]

First Year Reading - Read Anything Good Lately? And Why?

First Year Reading – Read Anything Good Lately? And Why?

Enter a four-year college today as a first year student and more often than not, you will be asked to participate in a common first year reading. It was not always so.

Shared readings have long been part of collegiate intellectual life. Over the past twenty plus years their use, especially in the first year, has exploded. Based in great part by the work of John Gardner, a driving force behind the

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