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.

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Administrative records, media coverage, photographs, and public responses to the reading material. Records currently relate mainly to the 2002 and 2003 programs, which featured "Approaching the Qu'ran" by Michael Sells and "Nickel and Dimed" 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.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Journalist, writer, and social critic, Barbara Ehrenreich was born in 1941 in Butte, Montana, the daughter of Isabelle (Oxley) and Ben Howes Alexander. Her father worked in the copper mines and her mother, a homemaker, was active in the Democratic Party. A graduate of Reed College (B.A. 1963, chemistry and physics) and Rockefeller University (Ph.D. 1968, cell biology), Ehrenreich became involved in the anti-war movement and a member of other progressive causes including low-income h...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Summer Reading Program.

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In 1999 the University 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. From the description of Summer Reading Program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill records, 1999-2003. WorldCat record id: 57992289 ...

Sells, Michael Anthony

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