{"id":17,"date":"2021-01-22T21:43:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T21:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2021-03-06T16:58:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T16:58:44","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The LSSU Campus Read is a campus-wide project that encourages all students, faculty and staff to read the same book during the school year.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021-22 Campus Read will be the fourth campus read at LSSU.\u00a0 In 2017-18, the book <em>Station Eleven<\/em> by Emily St. John-Mandel was chosen by faculty &amp; staff through a vote, and during the fall semester, the LSSU Library held a variety of events connected to the topics of the book including book discussions, scholarly talks, a book art workshop and a Pandemic game night.\u00a0 In 2018-19, the campus faculty &amp; staff voted to select <em>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks<\/em> by Rebecca Skloot for the Campus Read, and over the full school year the library held events including faculty speakers and movie screenings.\u00a0 For the 2019-20 school year, the campus selected\u00a0<em>What the Eyes Don&#8217;t See<\/em> by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, and the LSSU Library held a series of events including a talk on PFAS in Michigan, a documentary screening on the Flint Water Crisis, and a talk about the effects of lead on child brain development. For the 2020-21 school year, we did not have a Campus Read as our campus participated the NEA Big Read program, centered around Louise Erdrich&#8217;s <em>The Round House<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a book that would facilitate <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">building community (on campus and beyond!), <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">conversations between people with diverse experiences, i<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ncreased social engagement with the world around us, and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">development of critical thinking, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/call-for-nominations\/\">nominate it starting January 30<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Selection of the Campus Read will begin March 10, so please submit your nomination by Feb 28, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021-22 Campus Read Planning Committee members are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joe Gallagher<br \/>\nSandi King<br \/>\nRob Kipka<br \/>\nRuss Searight<br \/>\nJon Sommers<br \/>\nAli Van Doren<br \/>\nJody Schopp<br \/>\nBonnie Speas<br \/>\nGeralyn Narkiewicz<br \/>\nTeresa Yelverton-Johnson<br \/>\nMarc Boucher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LSSU Campus Read is a campus-wide project that encourages all students, faculty and staff to read the same book during the school year. The 2021-22 Campus Read will be the fourth campus read at LSSU.\u00a0 In 2017-18, the book Station Eleven by Emily St. John-Mandel was chosen by faculty &amp; staff through a vote,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}