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Common Reading
The faculty and staff members of the First Year Experience Program (FYE) have chosen Myron Uhlberg's Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love as the Common Reading book for the coming academic year. The University community will also be reading the book. The common reading will tie in with a series of events being planned throughout the year, including a day with the author. This is an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to interact and share the common reading experience.
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All incoming first-year students will be asked to read the book this summer. Chapters from the text will be integrated into GSR 101 (First Year Seminar) this fall. The tenets of the book provide a strong connection with the skills included in developing effective emotional intelligence, an overriding goal for GSR 101.
During the fall semester, the FYE office will invite faculty, staff, and students to join them in planning and participating in various activities related to Uhlberg's book.
Previous book selections were:
- 2008- The Power of Kindnessby Piero Ferrucci
- 2007- Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in Americaby Firoozeh Dumas
- 2006- Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in Americaby Firoozeh Dumas
- 2005 - Real College by Elizabeth Tippet and Douglas Stone
- 2004 - The Pactby Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt with Lisa Frazier Page
- 2003 - Tuesdays With Morrieby Mitch Albom
- 2002 - The Color of Water by James McBride
Fantastic First Year
Since the custom was established in 2002, the University has taken great pride in recognizing its Fantastic First Year students for starting their college careers by demonstrating exemplary study habits, academic achievement, good conduct, community involvement, and supporting other students.
This year the First Year Experience honored 40 Fantastic First Year Students at an April 22 event. The 2009 Awardees, who boast an average GPA of 3.8 and have all shown the ability to excel inside and outside the classroom, were congratulated by President Davila (left), Associate Provost Catherine Andersen (middle row, right), Provost Stephen Weiner (top row, right), Coordinator of Student Success Darian Burwell (front row, fifth from left).
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Click here to view the event's slideshow.
The Peer Leader (PL) Program
Peer Leaders, formerly called Teaching Assistants (TAs), usually junior and senior students, fill an essential role during NSO and in First Year Seminar (FYS) classes. Peer Leaders are trained the week before NSO to work with the new students during NSO. In addition, they enroll in a weekly seminar class and are assigned to work with GSR 101 and 102 instructors. They teach a variety of activities within the class, and serve as mentors, positive role models, and tutors to new students.
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