Do You Teach Political Science?

In 2014, investigative journalist Shane Bauer took an entry-level, $9/hour job as a guard at Winn Correctional Facility, a private prison in rural Louisiana. For the next four months, he reported for work outfitted with a hidden recording device, ready to capture the reality of life in private prisons for guards and inmates alike. For

Join Khaled Hosseini on Tuesday 9/18 from 1:30pm ET / 5:30pm GMT on his Facebook page, where he will be responding to questions from fans all over the world.   From Khaled Hosseini, the author of The Kite Runner, And The Mountains Echoed, and A Thousand Splendid Suns, comes an illustrated book for readers of all ages: Sea Prayer.

For the second year in a row, Common Reads has pulled together an extensive list of First-Year and Common Reading programs run by colleges and universities across the country.

This article was contributed by Alison Baverstock, Associate Professor of Publishing, Department of Journalism, Publishing and Media, Kingston University, UK. Kingston University won the Widening Participation or Outreach Initiative of the Year from Times Higher Education in 2017.    Did we steal or borrow the idea of common reading? A publisher and long-term believer in the power