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
iRead books:
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah (2007-2008)
- Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson & Oliver Relin (2008-2009)
- Nickeled 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)
