Chancellor's Reading Circle

2008-2009

• October 14, 2008 - Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
• February 5, 2009 - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• April 7, 2009 - Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069 by Neil Howe and William Strauss

Faculty:
Libby Pelter, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Nicoleta Tarfulea, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Tom Roach, Associate Professor of Communication

2006-2007

• October 18, 2006 - The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Trade)
• January 25, 2007 - King Leopold’s Ghost, by Adam Hochschild (Mariner Books)
• April 18, 2007 - The Lemon Tree:  An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, by Sandy Tolan (Bloomsbury USA)

Faculty:
Peter Turbek - Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics;
Richard Rupp – History and Political Science; and
Renee Fife - Nursing.

2005-2006

• October 18, 2005 - Straight Man: A Novel, by Richard Russo (Vintage Contemporaries)
• January 26, 2006 - Totto Chan The Little Girl at the Window, by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (Kodansha America)
• March 28, 2006 - The Cheating Culture, by David Callahan (Harvest Books)

Faculty:
James Johnson - Manufacturing Engineering Tech and Supervision;
Lynn Zimmerman - Initial Teacher Preparation; and
Saul Lerner - History and Political Science.

2004-2005

• November 11, 2004 - The Life of Pi, by Yann Marel (Harcourt Brace & Company)
• January 20, 2005 - Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich (Henry Hold & Company, Inc.)
• March 24, 2005 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon (Vintage Books)

Faculty:
Carolyn Boiarsky - English and Philosophy;
Lisa Goodnight - Communication and Creative Arts; and
Maureen Marthaler - Nursing.

2003-2004

• October 29, 2003 - Building Trust, by Robert Solomon and Fernando Flores (Oxford Press)
• January 29, 2004 - Other People's Words, The Cycle of Low Literacy, by Victoria Purcell-Gates (Harvard University Press)
• April 8, 2004 - The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz, by Hans Kollwitz (Northwestern University Press)

Faculty:
Samuel Zinaich - English and Philosophy;
Linda Wold - Initial Teacher Preparation; and
Jana Whittington - Manufacturing Engineering Tech and Supervision.

2002-2003

• November 14, 2002 - The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition, by Lewis Carroll; Annotated by Martin Gardner (WW Norton)
• January 23, 2003 - Maus: A Survivors Tale, by Art Spiegelman (Pantheon)
• April 10, 2003 - Getting to Resolution, by Stewart Levine (Berrett-Koehler)

Faculty:
Catherine Murphy - Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics;
Colin Fewer - English and Philosophy; and
Joy Colwell - Manufacturing Engineering Tech and Supervision.