[Geog-dept] FW: Call for Buckeye Book Discussion Leader Volunteers/The Glass Castle

[Raake, Brooke]

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From: Johnson, Cecilia
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 1:51 PM
To: _ASC Advising
Subject: Request to Share With Your Departments: Call for Buckeye Book Discussion Leader Volunteers/The Glass Castle

Dear ASC Advising,
If you could forward the below call for Buckeye Book Discussion Leaders to your departmental listserves—that would be wonderful. We have an excellent roster of leaders signed up so far, but we could use a few more. Thanks so much!

Best,
Cecilia

Every Autumn semester over 6,000 new freshmen enter Ohio State University. The classes they take, the majors they pursue, and the dorms they live in are wide-ranging. The new environment of nearly 40,000 undergraduates is vast, but OSU’s First Year Experience Office aims to bring these students together through at least one common experience that they will all share—reading the same book, the Buckeye Book, over the summer before they start their new lives at OSU.
So, this is where you come in.

In an effort to make the Buckeye Book experience meaningful for students, the College of Arts and Sciences facilitates opportunities for students to discuss the book in their Freshman Survey classes.  Faculty members, graduate students, and staff lead those discussions, and the results in years past have been wonderful—students have come alive in exciting conversations discussing the works of Rebecca Skloot, Tobias Wolff, Dave Eggers, Warren St. John, Diana Abu Jaber, and Amy Waldman. The authors have come to campus and students have been eager to meet them and share ideas.
The enthusiasm about the Buckeye Book could not have happened without the help of the discussion leaders.  For those of you who have not yet participated in a Buckeye Book Discussion, I hope you’ll consider welcoming freshmen students to their new university experience by engaging with them in a lively conversation about this year's book.

Now the details: I am very excited about this year’s selection of the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. The memoir explores issues of resilience, finding your own path, and loving your family even as you separate and find your own identity. I'm especially enthusiastic about this year's book since the freshmen students who served on the selection committee were among the strongest advocates for choosing The Glass Castle.

Jeannette Walls will visit campus in the Fall (September 23rd) to meet with students, and the discussions of the book in Survey class will happen in September and October. For those of you who let me know you would like to volunteer, I will have a copy of the book to give to you this summer. Your discussion with freshmen students will be 55 minutes of your time. For those of you who would like to collaborate in preparing for your discussion, I will be setting up voluntary workshops in the Fall for us to brainstorm ideas.

It will be fun! You’ll feel good about engaging students in community-building conversation and welcoming students to OSU.

Please drop me a note to johnson.2668 at osu.edu<mailto:johnson.2668 at osu.edu> to be part of the project.
For more information on the BBC, please visit: http://fye.osu.edu/bbc.html . And here’s a link to more information about The Glass Castle: http://books.simonandschuster.net/Glass-Castle/Jeannette-Walls/9780743247542

Thanks so much,

Cecilia Johnson
Academic Advisor and Staff Assistant
College of Arts and Sciences Department of English/Undergraduate Studies
421 Denney Hall/164 West 17th Ave./Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: 614-292-6065/johnson.2668 at osu.edu/english.osu.edu<mailto:614-292-6065/johnson.2668 at osu.edu/english.osu.edu>
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