Macmillan’s Common Reading March Madness Picks!

16Mar11

Our March Madness bracket picks are based on the colleges and universities that have adopted Macmillan books for their campus-wide and first-year experience common reading programs!

Filed under: 2011, A Long Way Gone, Confessions of a Radical Industrialist, Deep Economy, Events, Fiction, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, Green, Nickel and Dimed, Night, No Impact Man, Picking Cotton, The Spirit Catches You..., This I Believe & This I Believe II   |  Leave a Comment
Tags: dan gediman, green, jay allison, this i believe

Saint Michael’s College First-Year Students Reading Field Notes from a Catastrophe this Summer

04Apr10

Saint Michael’s College has adopted Elizabeth Kolbert’s Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change as the common book for their First-Year Seminar this year!

Filed under: Field Notes from a Catastrophe, 2010, Green   |  Leave a Comment
Tags: first year experience, common reading program, field notes from a catastrophe, elizabeth kolbert, saint michael's college, green

The Good Soldiers is the 2010-2011 Common Book at Century College

01Feb10

David Finkel’s The Good Soldiers is the 2010-2011 Common Book at Century College.

Filed under: Field Notes from a Catastrophe, 2010, The Good Soldiers   |  Leave a Comment
Tags: first year experience, common reading program, the good soldiers, david finkel, century college

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is the 2009 First-Year Common Read at Mount Holyoke College

16Jan10

Anne Fadiman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is the 2009 common reading title for first-year student at Mount Holyoke College.

Filed under: 2009, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, Nickel and Dimed, The Spirit Catches You...   |  Leave a Comment

Field Notes from a Catastrophe and Elizabeth Kolbert at St. Mary’s College of Maryland

16Oct09

This summer, as they prepared and packed for their first year at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, first-year students were also reading Elizabeth Kolbert’s Field Notes from a Catastrophe. All incoming students were required to read the book in one of several interdisciplinary first-year seminars this semester. Faculty members were also encouraged to adopt the [...]

Filed under: 2009, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, Green   |  Leave a Comment
Tags: first year experience, common reading program, field notes from a catastrophe, elizabeth kolbert, st. mary's college of maryland, green