1. One Book Values Include:
Building community (on and off campus)
Creating opportunities for Social and Academic Engagement across the campus and across disciplines
Building bridges between literacy and engagement
Building partnerships through inquiry
Deepening the ways we experience a text by being inclusive and honoring multiple perspectives: “Reading the world always precedes reading the word, and reading the word implies continually reading the word” (Paulo Friere)
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2. Where We Have Been Fall 2016-Spring 2017
1) Invitation to be part of FIG sent out to faculty, and staff
2) Looked at Models of One Book: Pasadena City College and Cal State Chico
3) Survey Outreach to campus:
Do you have any suggestions for how to involve the whole campus (staff, faculty, students, administration in One Book?
If you are faculty, do you have any thoughts on how you might incorporate One Book into your class?

3. Where We Have Been
4) Survey sent out for developing selection criteria for One Book:
Mirrors the diversity of the community
Relevant and appealing to college students and general community
Relevant themes and issues suitable to group discussion, analysis, activities, etc.
Broad appeal across the disciplines
Available in large quantities and formats (paperback, audiobook, etc.)
Affordability
5) Submissions sent in and winnowed down (based on criteria) and sent out to
campus (with descriptions of books)
6) Selection of title!

4. A Window Into One Book One Book ~ Many Perspectives ~ One Community

5. DREAMS What might One Book look like on our campus? Speaker Series
Poster Expos
Graffiti Walls
Photo contests around themes
Film Viewing and Discussion
Open Mic/Performance (poetry, prose, drama, etc.)
Debates/Inquiry question activities or events
Cross discipline partnerships
Campus-Community partnerships (Libraries, book stores, book clubs, etc.)

6. Resources 200 books purchased with Equity money for students
Can I participate without having read the book?
Themes
Gavilan One Book web page

7. Bridges
How might you use this in your class/ on our campus (possible activities/lessons)?
How can we support you?