<p>Guess I need to read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks!</p>
<p>yes, it’s good!</p>
<p>Cornell University - Homer & Langley, by E.L. Doctorow</p>
<p>Florida State University The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Illinois Wesleyan University- “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri</p>
<p>Marquette University – “The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore</p>
<p>Miami University (OH) - “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer</p>
<p>Meredith College - Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario</p>
<p>NC State - “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Reed College - The Odyssey</p>
<p>Smith College - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.</p>
<p>University of Missouri – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers</p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania – Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake</p>
<p>Vanderbilt–The Good Life, by Peter Gomes</p>
<p>Whitman College - “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman</p>
<p>Wofford- Memoirs of a Geisha</p>
<p>Adding Rice:</p>
<p>Cornell University - Homer & Langley, by E.L. Doctorow</p>
<p>Florida State University The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Illinois Wesleyan University- “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri</p>
<p>Marquette University – “The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore</p>
<p>Miami University (OH) - “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer</p>
<p>Meredith College - Enriques Journey by Sonia Nazario</p>
<p>NC State - “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Reed College - The Odyssey</p>
<p>Rice - The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen, by Kwame Anthony Appiah</p>
<p>Smith College - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.</p>
<p>University of Missouri – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers</p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania – Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake</p>
<p>Vanderbilt–The Good Life, by Peter Gomes</p>
<p>Whitman College - “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman</p>
<p>Wofford- Memoirs of a Geisha</p>
<p>Adding Pomona College: </p>
<p>Cornell University - Homer & Langley, by E.L. Doctorow</p>
<p>Florida State University The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Illinois Wesleyan University- “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri</p>
<p>Marquette University – “The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore</p>
<p>Miami University (OH) - “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer</p>
<p>Meredith College - Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario</p>
<p>NC State - “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Pomona College: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro</p>
<p>Reed College - The Odyssey</p>
<p>Smith College - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.</p>
<p>University of Missouri – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers</p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania – Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake</p>
<p>Vanderbilt–The Good Life, by Peter Gomes</p>
<p>Whitman College - “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman</p>
<p>Wofford- Memoirs of a Geisha</p>
<p>Oops, I missed Rice</p>
<p>Cornell University - Homer & Langley, by E.L. Doctorow</p>
<p>Florida State University The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Illinois Wesleyan University- “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri</p>
<p>Marquette University – “The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore</p>
<p>Miami University (OH) - “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer</p>
<p>Meredith College - Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario</p>
<p>NC State - “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Pomona College: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro</p>
<p>Reed College - The Odyssey</p>
<p>Rice - The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen, by Kwame Anthony Appiah</p>
<p>Smith College - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.</p>
<p>University of Missouri – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers</p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania – Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake</p>
<p>Vanderbilt–The Good Life, by Peter Gomes</p>
<p>Whitman College - “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman</p>
<p>Wofford- Memoirs of a Geisha</p>
<p>Rutgers Honors- Monsters of Templeton</p>
<p>^^Opie: I’ll add it for you.</p>
<p>Cornell University - Homer & Langley, by E.L. Doctorow</p>
<p>Florida State University The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Illinois Wesleyan University- “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri</p>
<p>Marquette University – “The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore</p>
<p>Miami University (OH) - “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer</p>
<p>Meredith College - Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario</p>
<p>NC State - “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Pomona College: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro</p>
<p>Reed College - The Odyssey</p>
<p>Rice - The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen, by Kwame Anthony Appiah</p>
<p>Rutgers Honors- Monsters of Templeton</p>
<p>Smith College - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.</p>
<p>University of Missouri – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers</p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania – Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake</p>
<p>Vanderbilt–The Good Life, by Peter Gomes</p>
<p>Whitman College - “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman</p>
<p>Wofford- Memoirs of a Geisha
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<p>^Thanks, sorry bopambo</p>
<p>Not a parent, but adding Brown:</p>
<p>Brown University - Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China, by Leslie T. Chang</p>
<p>Cornell University - Homer & Langley, by E.L. Doctorow</p>
<p>Florida State University The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Illinois Wesleyan University- “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri</p>
<p>Marquette University – “The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore</p>
<p>Miami University (OH) - “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer</p>
<p>Meredith College - Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario</p>
<p>NC State - “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Pomona College: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro</p>
<p>Reed College - The Odyssey</p>
<p>Rice - The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen, by Kwame Anthony Appiah</p>
<p>Rutgers Honors- Monsters of Templeton</p>
<p>Smith College - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.</p>
<p>University of Missouri – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers</p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania – Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake</p>
<p>Vanderbilt–The Good Life, by Peter Gomes</p>
<p>Whitman College - “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman</p>
<p>Wofford- Memoirs of a Geisha</p>
<p>Oh Gawd, I hate to say this but –</p>
<p>Both my Ss are now college graduates. Both had a required reading book the summer before Freshman year. Both dutifully read it (one was “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” and the other was about oil and the Middle East and whatnot.) Neither of them ever encountered anything – anything!!! – in terms of discussion about their “required” book.</p>
<p>I have no idea why they were required to read them.</p>
<p>For others, I don’t know why students are required to read books over the summer.</p>
<p>However, some actually do make you do something with it. At Illinois Wesleyan, we have small discussion groups about the book sometime during orientation week, and we also have to do guided reading questions to prepare for that. I think we have to turn them in, and they may even go into our freshman writing class, since the discussion groups are the writing class that’s already decided for you.</p>
<p>I still remember my freshman book from the early seventies “On Liberty” by John Mill. There was a 2 week freshman “orientation” class and that was the discussion book. It’s still in my bookshelf complete with penciled notes and underlined passages. It’s good for the kids and a transition bridge for them. I’m guessing there are more than a few that never open the required reading which is unfortunate.</p>
<p>adding Elon:</p>
<p>Brown University - Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China, by Leslie T. Chang</p>
<p>Cornell University - Homer & Langley, by E.L. Doctorow</p>
<p>Elon University: Creating a World Without Poverty by Muhammed Yunus</p>
<p>Florida State University The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Illinois Wesleyan University- “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri</p>
<p>Marquette University – “The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore</p>
<p>Miami University (OH) - “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer</p>
<p>Meredith College - Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario</p>
<p>NC State - “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Pomona College: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro</p>
<p>Reed College - The Odyssey</p>
<p>Rice - The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen, by Kwame Anthony Appiah</p>
<p>Rutgers Honors- Monsters of Templeton</p>
<p>Smith College - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.</p>
<p>University of Missouri – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers</p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania – Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake</p>
<p>Vanderbilt–The Good Life, by Peter Gomes</p>
<p>Whitman College - “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman</p>
<p>Wofford- Memoirs of a Geisha</p>
<p>My older daughter graduated from Brandeis and her freshman year book was Confederates in the Attic and the author spoke as part of orientation week and there were small group discussions as well. Interesting book that I would recommend- I read as it was in the house and whenever I traveled for business and would be reading on a plane or in the airport, always met people who had read the book as well and had several really interesting discussions.</p>
<p>Ah just more marketing schitck…kids and their families buy into it. So overdone. Pullease. Even when the colleges ‘do’ somethign with it, its all stupidly superficial…and really the only reason any college does this is because other colleges do it. I know, I’ve sat on such committees. Bunch of sheep. But hey, if it makes you feel worth your $250k…all the more power…well, um, to someone.</p>
<p>Starbright, I respectfully disagree with your take on this. Both my kids had required reading at their colleges, and at both colleges the authors came to speak. The freshmen had thought provoking discussions that extended into our family as well, since I also read the books. My son, not an avid reader, was really enthusiastic about his reading assignment. I can’t imagine why anyone would discourage extracurricular reading, especially for college students. At UW it wasn’t in the budget for last year, so some benefactor underwrote the whole project including paying for Michael Pollen, the author of that year’s chosen book, to come speak.</p>
<p>My college also has brought the author of the summer reading book in to speak, and I’m sure they’ll do it again this year for our class.</p>
<p>I think requiring everyone to read a certain book is a brilliant idea, especially in these fragmented times. A hundred years ago there was “the canon”-- the books everyone read. Of course there were many great writers and ideas excluded from the canon, but still, it was common ground, a frame of reference everyone could use. Now, aside from the Bible and the Odyssey and maybe Pride and Prejudice, there are very few books everyone has read. I myself would like to see congress have a mandatory summer reading assignment–one simple thing they all had in common, that would foster a deeper conversation over the year.</p>
<p>^^Gwen: right now, a book on ethics would be a great one for Congress to read before the next session…and while they are at it, maybe they can have the Senate read it too…!!..</p>