The Center for Vocation and Integrative Learning provides summer reading books to all incoming first-year students.  Each student will receive the book to read over the summer.  The text will vary from year to year but will explore vocation, work and service to others.  Students will be provided with questions that will engage them for the next four years.  The reading will provide them with an intellectual experience and a common language that will help them connect with other students.

In the days of orientation that precede the start of fall classes, students will meet several times with other students who are enrolled in the same Liberal Arts Seminar (LAS) to discuss the summer reading.  These discussions will be lead by seminar assistants who are also connected to the community service project that all first year students participate in before the start of classes.

Reading for Fall 2008

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin  

Past First Year Readings

• The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini - Fall 2007 
• A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines - Fall 2006
• Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom – Fall 2005
• Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom – Fall 2004
• Granny D, Your Never to Old to Raise a Little Hell, by Doris Haddock  - Fall 2003