Summer Reading Program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1999-2003

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Summer Reading Program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1999-2003

Summer Reading Program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1999-2003

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In 1999 the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill established its Summer Reading Program for incoming freshmen and transfer students. Each year students are asked to read an assigned book over the summer and, on the day before the fall semester begins, participate in a two-hour discussion of the book with select faculty and staff members. Records include administrative records, media coverage, photographs, and public responses to the reading material. Records currently relate mainly to the 2002 and 2003 programs, which featured by Michael Sells and by Barbara Ehrenreich. There is considerably more material pertaining to Sells's book than to Ehrenreich's. Records consist largely of materials documenting the media coverage of and public response to the selection of the books. Included are postcards, letters, and emails sent to the Chancellor's Office as well as newspapers, newspaper clippings, copies of online articles, videocassette recordings of news broadcasts, and news broadcast transcripts. Also included are program brochures, information packets for discussion leaders, photographs, and fact sheets and media statements issued by the Chancellor's Office. Approaching the Qu'ran Nickel and Dimed

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. University Archives and Records Service