iREAD Mission Statement
The Washburn iRead Program will, through the inclusion of students in a common reading experience, enrich and expand the minds of students, foster campus involvement and enhance the campus community.
iRead is a reading program to help …
- Expand student's critical thinking, discussion and reading skills
- Merge curricular and co-curricular components of college
- Encourage interdisciplinary connections
- Enhance participation in the intellectual life of campus
- Introduce students to the expectations of higher education
- Create partnerships across campus and in the community
- Enhance the Washburn Transformational Experience
iRead has a common goal to …
- Enhance the campus community
- Uphold the university mission of "learning for a lifetime"
- Advocate the goals of the Washburn Transformational Experience
- Create a common experience for students
- Foster involvement and inclusivity as early as possible
- Enrich and expand the minds of students
Previous iREAD selections:
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah (2007-2008)
- Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson & Oliver Relin (2008-2009)
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America - Barbara Ehrenreich (2009-2010)
- This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women - ed. by Jay Allison & Dan Gediman (2010-2011)
- War Dances - Sherman Alexie (2011-2012)
- Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains With the Smith Center Redmen - Joe Drape (2012-2013)
- rode - Thomas Fox Averill (2013-2014)
- Eyes on the Prize - Juan Williams (2014-2015)
- March (books 1 & 2) - John Lewis (2015-2016)
- A Highly Unlikely Scenario - Rachel Cantor (2016-2017)
- The River of Doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey - Candice Millard (2017-2018)
- The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl - Timothy Egan (2018-2019)
- Eisenhower: Becoming the Leader of the Free World - Louis Galambos (2019-2020)
- A Terrible Thing to Waste: Arthur Fletcher and the Conundrum of the Black Republican - David Golland (2020-2021)
- American Pandemic: Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic - Nancy Bristow (2021-2022)
- HATE: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship - Nadine Strossen (2022-2023)