The Common Reading Selection Committee has selected The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler as the assigned summer reading for all new undergraduate students. In the book, Shipler, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, profiles the lives of Americans unable to share in America's economic prosperity and examines the causes and consequences of poverty in our society.
David Shipler will speak on campus on Friday, October 5, 2007 at Amasa Stone Chapel during the community hour which begins at 12:30 p.m.
The public lecture will be preceded by a reception at 11:30 a.m., sponsored by Alumni Relations.
The bookstore will be onsite to sell copies of Mr. Shipler's book in Amasa Stone Chapel. Following the lecture, the author will be signing his book in Amasa Stone Chapel.
This event is cosponsored by University Programs and Events, Alumni Relations, the Baker Nord Center for the Humanities, the College Scholars Program, and the Hallinan Project for Peace and Social Justice.
The lecture is a featured event of Alumni Weekend. |
