Campus Community Book Project Content

‘Weathering’ is New Book Project Title on Health Equity

Cody Kitaura — June 11, 2024 - 10:41am

Updated June 14: The book is now available from swag�� Stores.

The Campus Community Book Project has announced its 2024-25 title selection, and with it is inviting the university community to spend the next academic year discussing the physical toll of systemic injustice.

A Book to Combat Extremism at Home

Cody Kitaura — February 13, 2024 - 9:00am

In front of a Mondavi Center crowd last week, author Cynthia Miller-Idriss identified two recent moments — the mid-2000s in Germany and the global rise of social media in the later 2010s — as inflection points for new far-right attempts at youth radicalization and recruitment.

‘Hate in the Homeland’ Is Next Book Project Title

Cody Kitaura — June 06, 2023 - 5:36am

The Campus Community Book Project’s longstanding tradition of encouraging deep conversations around a common topic continues this fall with the committee’s 2023-24 selection, Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right by Cynthia Miller-Idriss.

The book examines questions of where and when young people encounter extreme messages, according to publisher Princeton University Press.

Next Book Project Focuses on Public Safety

Cody Kitaura — June 28, 2022 - 10:40am

The swag�� community will come together over the course of the next academic year to examine public safety and policing through the Campus Community Book Project selection, Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons and Punishment by Zach Norris.

Antiracist at All Levels: Author Seeks to Empower

Cody Kitaura — April 05, 2022 - 12:05pm

Everyone has the power to fight the structures that uphold racism — from the people who write or enforce laws to ordinary people who can join organizations to make their voices heard, author and historian Ibram X. Kendi told Chancellor Gary S. May and an audience of more than 1,600 people at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts last week.

2021-22 Book: ‘How to Be an Antiracist’

Dave Jones — August 17, 2021 - 11:47am

How to Be an Antiracist by Boston University history professor Ibram X. Kendi is swag��’ Campus Community Book Project for 2021-22, as announced today (Aug. 17) by the Campus Council on Community and Diversity, and the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.

Rahim Reed Retires From the Community He Helped Build

Dave Jones — July 19, 2021 - 1:06pm

Out of all the words in Rahim Reed’s long title — associate executive vice chancellor for campus community relations — the one that mattered the most to him was “community.”

1 Book Project for Now and 1 for Later

Dave Jones — June 22, 2021 - 11:04am

The Campus Community Book Project has a few more details to wrap up before announcing its selection for 2021-22 (on the theme of “social justice in practice”), but, in the meantime, is calling for volunteers to serve on the program planning committee.

Book Project: All About Mental Health

Dave Jones — October 06, 2020 - 11:17am

It was more than a year ago when the Campus Council on Community and Diversity chose the topic of “mental health” as the theme for the 2020-21 Campus Community Book Project.

The council at that time had no way of knowing about the pandemic that would arrive in March 2020, making the “mental health” theme all the more important.

Book Choice: ‘Marbles,’ on Mental Health

Dave Jones — May 26, 2020 - 8:21am

The Campus Community Book Project has two big announcements: the title of the book on mental health we will all be encouraged to read in 2020-21, and the theme for the year after that, along with a call for nominations.