Williams Reads aims to foster new connections among students, staff, faculty, and community members by exploring diversity through a common reading experience. Developed by the Committee on Diversity and Community (CDC), Williams Reads is an initiative offered as an opportunity for us to explore a book together that will help us to celebrate and deepen our appreciation of diversity. It is a goal of the CDC to select a book that will stimulate community engagement and challenging conversation.
Newly expanded Williams Reads programming for the 2012-2013 academic year will include free books sent to all incoming first-year students in preparation for First Days conversations. Special events, outside speakers, and other activities for the entire campus and local community will extend through January to Claiming Williams Days 2013.
Williams Reads 2011-2013 Book: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
“[W]e have Barbara Ehrenreich to thank for bringing us the news of America’s working poor so clearly and directly…” –Dorothy Gallagher, The New York Times Book Review
Learn more about the book and the author.
View this conversation with Barbara Ehrenreich at Montgomory College
Living in Guadalajara and Santa Barbara, walking the valleys of Arizona and the Berkshires, at a Radiohead or Rachmanonov concert, reading from Neruda to Nash, I won't guarantee a single style or particular place, or even my hair color, so look everywhere because that's where I like it best.
