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September 2, 2022
The WSU Common Reading Program has produced a detailed, online guide to help faculty and staff better use this year’s book, “Braiding Sweetgrass” in classes, activities, and programming.
April 28, 2022
The book features essays that convey scientific knowledge and indigenous lore as well as reflections on the relationship between humans and the land.
April 6, 2022
A new program bringing reading to fourth-grade classrooms across Jefferson County kicked off last week. All this month, community members, professional actors and storytellers and other black male role models
April 1, 2022
The plight and successful activism of Yakima Valley migrant farmworkers during the 1970s will be the subject of an April 5 WSU Libraries lecture at 4 p.m. in the Terrell Library atrium.
March 24, 2022
The virtual panel discussion on “Thriving Authentically” will feature guest experts starting at 5 p.m. It is hosted by the WSU Academic Success and Career Center and the Office of Outreach and Education.
March 23, 2022
App State’s Common Reading Program announces its 2022–23 book selection for incoming students: “Junaluska: Oral Histories of a Black Appalachian Community.”
February 9, 2022
The School of the Environment will host a free, public presentation, “Environmental Justice in Rural America,” by leading environmental justice activist Catherine Coleman Flowers at noon on Wednesday, Feb. 16.
February 9, 2022
Events honoring Black History Month have been taking place across the WSU system this month, with several more planned for the coming days and weeks.
February 3, 2022
On Feb. 9, Pulitzer-prize-winning poet Natalie Diaz will be giving a virtual poetry reading and lecture for the first Visiting Writers Series event of 2022. WSU’s Department of English and the Common Reading Program are partnering together to host the event. Cameron McGill, Visiting Writers Series co-director, said for several decades, the program has brought in...
January 24, 2022
Diaz’s poem, “American Arithmetic,” is featured in this year’s common reading book, Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation. The book is used in dozens of first-year classes.