Reimagining the First-Semester College Experience: Building the Welcome Read Program

FAIN: ASA-292279-23

CUNY Research Foundation, Queensborough Community College (Bayside, NY 11364-1432)
Ilse Schrynemakers (Project Director: November 2022 to present)
Sybil White (Co Project Director: April 2023 to present)
Beth Counihan (Co Project Director: May 2023 to present)

A one-year project that would expand a first-semester common read program to reach students in two pre-college programs.

Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York (QCC) seeks funding to expand the Welcome Read program, an interdepartmental community-building initiative that brings together first-semester students in pre-college programs and college writing courses in shared conversations, creative pursuits, and campus engagement related to two common texts, a chosen poem and the graphic memoir, March: Book Three.