
Suggest a Book
Selection Criteria
The Synergy Committee considers the following criteria when selecting the Common Reading text each fall:
- Potential to engage students and spark passionate discussion
- Appeal to a wide range of students
- Possibilities for classroom use among various departments, including First Year Seminar
- Possibilities for campus programming
- Richness of themes; interdisciplinary in nature
- Relevance to student life (i.e. coming of age, diversity, relationships, family, self-exploration, identity, etc.)
- Available in paperback
- 400 pages or less