The Common Reading nomination form for the 2022-23 academic year's book is now closed. The deadline was Monday, November 15, 2021 at midnight. You can contact kweathermon@wsu.edu if you have any further questions.
PULLMAN, Wash.— Jacob H. Rooksby, dean of the Gonzaga University School of Law, will deliver the inaugural Common Reading lecture for 2018-19 on Wed., Sept. 5, at 5 p.m. in CUE 203 at Washington State University.
The public is welcome at no charge to this event, which is cosponsored by the Common Reading Program with the WSU Pre-Law Resource Center.
First-year and other WSU students are reading the common book, Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything for many classes, and enjoying extracurricular programming related to it. The lecture series allows students to learn from experts in their fields about topics raised in the book. Rooksby’s presentation will be the first guest lecture of many this 2018-19 academic year. » More …
Submit your book nomination using our online form.
Members of the Common Reading Program Selection Committee for 2017-18 are:
The theme for books used in 2017-18 and 2018-19 is “Frontiers of Technology, Health, and Society.” All books nominated must align with this theme.
Everyone is encouraged to consider submitting the name of a good book that fits the theme and reasons why it would be the best choice for freshmen and others to read and use in classes and beyond. By providing the Selection Committee with some basic information as well as your reasons for nominating this book, you will have made a huge impact on thousands of WSU students across many campuses.
All nominations will be posted on this site within a few days of receipt.
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(Updated 11/3/16)
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash, by Edward Humes, was selected as the 2014-15 Common Reading.
Of these nominations, “Being Wrong,” by Kathryn Schulz, was selected as the 2013-14 Common Reading book.
The Common Reading book selected for use in 2012-13 is “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”
Pullman, Wash.- The Washington State University Common Reading Program hosts a lecture by John Lupinacci at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday Nov. 17 in Todd 116. The event is free and open to the public.
The session will accompany this overview of youth in prisons by posing questions for audience participants to discuss. Often such presentations can leave us feeling powerless; however, this session will culminate by providing audience participants with opportunities to connect with regional and national efforts to reform and/or abolish the systemic incarceration of youth through the school-to-prison pipeline. » More …
Pullman, Wash. – The Washington State University Common Reading program is hosting a showing of the 2014 Frontline television documentary “Prison State”, Monday Nov. 9 from 4:30 – 6 p.m. in Heald G3.
“Prison State” follows four people caught up in Kentucky’s criminal justice system. The two teenage girls and two adult men featured in the film liven in Beecher Terrace, a housing project in Louisville, where one out of every six people cycle in and out of prison every year. Juvenile detention, mental illness, and addiction are highlighted as they contribute to the prison population. » More …
Pullman, Wash. – Pullman Chief of Police Gary Jenkins and Washington State University Chief of Police Bill Gardner will present “The Current Evolution of Law Enforcement” on Wed., Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Smith Center for Undergraduate Education (CUE) room 203. The public is welcome at this free event hosted by the Common Reading Program. » More …
Pullman, Wash. – “Reflections of a Segregated Life,” a lecture about the personal side of growing up in the Jim Crow south, will be presented by Jeff Guillory, director of Washington State University’s Office of Diversity Education, at 7 p.m. Tues., Sept. 22, in Todd 130. The public is welcome at this free event hosted by the Common Reading Program. » More …
Pullman, Wash. – “Broken on All Sides,” a film about racial inequality within America’s criminal justice system, will be shown at 7 p.m. Tues., Sept. 15, in room 203 of the Smith Center for Undergraduate Education at Washington State University. The public is welcome at this free event hosted by the Common Reading Program. » More …
PULLMAN, Wash.—What happens to that meat gristle and vegetable clump left on your plate at the neighborhood eatery last evening? “Issues of Food Waste” will be addressed by Southfork Public House and Porch Light Pizza entrepreneur Jim Harbour at the final Common Reading Tuesdays lecture April 14 at Washington State University. » More …