The idea behind the annual Campus Reading Celebration is to invite all members of the campus community (students, faculty, staff and administrators) to read the same book and to talk with each other in both formal and informal venues about the book throughout the academic year. By having the entire campus community read the same book we will all have a common intellectual experience that can generate shared discussions of a book we've all read.
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The book for the sixth annual Campus Reading Celebration will be Creating a World Without Poverty, by Dr. Muhammad Yunus. In Creating a World Without Poverty, Dr. Yunus goes beyond microcredit to pioneer the idea of social business - a completely new way to use the creative vibrancy of business to tackle social problems from poverty and pollution to inadequate health care and lack of education. Dr. Yunus’ “Next Big Idea” offers a pioneering model for nothing less than a new, more humane form of capitalism. |
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Copies of Creating a World Without Poverty are available at the John Spoor Broome Library. Books are also being provided free to the campus through fundraising efforts of the CSU Channel Islands Foundation. Students, faculty, staff, and community members are invited to read the book during the semester. Faculty are encouraged to incorporate the book into their syllabi, and to encourage or require students to attend Dr. Yunus’ presentations in February 2010. | |
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The centerpiece of the Campus Reading Celebration will be a visit by Dr. Muhammad Yunus on Friday, February 26, 2010.
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For more information about the Campus Reading Celebration please contact Amber Weir, Academic Events Coordinator, at: amber.weir@csuci.edu |
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