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Buckeye Book Community
Each summer, first-year students complete their first college
assignment by participating in the Buckeye Book Community. First-year students are given a reading selection during orientation and are asked to complete the reading before they return to campus to be prepared to discuss and analyze what they have read. The experience culminates with a visit from the featured author.
The BBC connects the first-year class through a shared experience and introduces the expectation that college students cultivate a life of learning both in and outside the classroom.
Goals of the BBC
- Promote reflection and dialogue among first-year students and faculty/staff around a common academic activity
- Introduce students to expectations of higher education
- Cultivate the life of the mind in and outside the classroom
- Help foster community among first-year students
- Connect first-year students to faculty and staff through co-curricular programming
- Provide students with the opportunity to hear from the author, engage with the author through Q&A, and gain a greater understanding of the author's motivation and writing process
| Buckeye Book Community 2012 |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is the story of the woman whose cancerous cells, known as HeLa cells, were vital for developing numerous medical advances. They have been bought and sold by the billions, yet the cells were taken without her consent, and Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown. Her family found out nearly 20 years after that Henrietta’s cells were still alive. It is an astonishing story of scientific discovery and the ethical implications involved. It is a story that approaches the intersections of race, class, and science in our culture and our history. It is the story of the unknown life of Henrietta Lacks, a woman who has changed all of our lives. |
Past Buckeye Book Community Selections |
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