Public Good-Reads Common Book Program
FAIN: AE-264001-19
Tulsa Community College (Tulsa, OK 74135-6198)
Kara M. Ryan-Johnson (Project Director: July 2018 to October 2022)
Cynthia Lee Shanks (Co Project Director: December 2018 to October 2022)
The development and implementation of an annual
common book program for students enrolled in Tulsa Community College’s First
Year Experience Seminars.
Tulsa Community College (TCC) proposes an annual common book
program (CBP) called “TCC Public Good-Reads.” The inaugural CBP, subtitled
“Back Home,” explores Iraq War veteran Phil Klay’s short story collection,
Redeployment, and focuses on trauma, adjustment, freedom, and other significant
humanities themes intended to promote understanding of veterans’ experiences.
The 18-month project is structured in three phases: 1) faculty development and
planning, 2) course-related training, and 3) a pilot launching the CBP in 150
sections of TCC’s first-year experience seminar and 24 additional core course
sections, culminating in a public lecture by author Phil Klay. The project will
expand humanities teaching by creating humanities-based learning communities,
incorporating professional development, and facilitating adoption of
high-impact practices. TCC intends to sustain Public Good-Reads as an integral
part of the College and for its annual events to have long-term impacts on the
community.