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About Common Reading
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The Purdue University Common Reading Program is a collaboration of the Office of the Provost, Student Success at Purdue, Purdue Libraries and other campus and community partners. It strives to provide a common, academic-based experience for all new first- year students – an experience that sets high academic expectations for students from the onset of the undergraduate experience.
Goals and Learning Outcomes
- Provide a common first-year experience for Purdue’s newest students
- Set an intellectual standard for students
- Connect students to their faculty/instructors
- Connect students to their peers
- Foster involvement in campus activities by linking programs and events to the common reading
- Enhance student success by emphasizing reading as an intellectual skill central to student achievement
- Enhance student success by setting higher academic expectations and modeling academic behaviors
By the end of the Common Reading experiences students should:
- Share a common intellectual experience with other students (Count of Books Distributed)
- Understand the expectations for reading and utilizing the book (Survey)
- Have engaged in discussions about the book (Convocation Counts, Evaluations at BGR)
- Feel less surprised by the level of rigor associated with Purdue University as a result of having read the common reading book (survey, Retention and Academic Success Data)
- Participate in at least one conversation about the Common Reading book outside of Boiler Gold Rush (Exhaustive Event Tracking and Reporting)