Campus Reading Celebration
Reservations for the campus events are required.
October 3rd & 4th Events:
- October 3, 2011 - A public event will be held at 6 p.m. on the CI Campus in Salon A. Following the presentation by Author Gregory Howard Williams, there will be a book signing. You MUST register for this event online. Click here to register.
- October 4, 2011 - This event is only open to CI students, faculty, and staff and will be held at 1p.m. on the CI Campus in Salon A. Following the presentation by Author Gregory Howard Williams, there will be a book signing. With limited seating you MUST register online. Click here to register.
The book for the seventh annual Campus Reading Celebration is Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black
by Author Gregory Howard Williams. The centerpiece of the Campus Reading Celebration will be a visit by Author Gregory
Howard Williams on October 3-4, 2011.
Reservations for the campus events are required.
Click Here for the Public Event Registration.
Click Here for CI student, faculty, and staff Registration.
The Campus Reading Celebration provides an annual opportunity for the campus community and public to share in a common intellectual experience. This year’s Campus Reading Celebration book follows the life of Gregory Williams, who grew up believing he was white but learned that his father was black when they moved to his father’s home town, Muncie, Indiana. In this remarkable memoir, Williams brings us with him as he negotiates the “color line” and brings a vivid contrast between the black and white worlds.
Copies of Life on the Color Line are available at the John Spoor Broome Library. Books are being provided free to the campus through funding from the CSU Channel Islands Instructionally Related Activities Fund. Students, faculty, staff, and community members are invited to read the book during the semester. Books will be available for community members to purchase at the campus Bookstore and at the October 3rd event.
Faculty are encouraged to incorporate the book into their syllabi, and to encourage or require students to attend Author Gregory Howard Williams' presentations on October 3, 2011 or October 4, 2011.
For the public event, limited parking is available on campus and is complimentary. Follow signs to designated event parking areas. Free parking is available at the Camarillo Metrolink Station /Lewis Road parking lot in Camarillo with complimentary shuttle service to and from the campus. Riders should board the CI VISTA Bus. Buses arrive and depart from the Camarillo Metrolink Station every 30 minutes from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday. For exact times, check the schedule at www.goventura.org.
For more information about the Campus Reading Celebration please contact Merissa Stith, Academic Events Coordinator, at merissa.stith@csuci.edu or (805) 437-8548.