If you work or study at CCBC, you are invited to vote for the Community Book Connection text for the 2007-2008 Academic Year. Please read the following five full proposals carefully. They have been selected by democratic vote from seventeen excellent proposals. Please vote for two of the following five short-listed books.



Savage  Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol.  Click here for details on this book. Narrative  of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass.  Click here for details on this book. Come  Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster  by Dr. Michael Eric Dyson.  Click here for details on this book. Field  Notes from a Catastrophe:  Man, Nature, and Climate Change by  Elizabeth Kolbert.  Click here for details on this book. Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and  the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler.  Click here for details on this book.

A Note on How to Vote from Kim Jensen

Please send an email to both Kim Jensen (kjensen@ccbcmd.edu) and Paige Rogers (progers@ccbcmd.edu) by 5 pm on Friday, March 23, 2007. In the subject line, please write Book Vote. In the body of the email just write the names of TWO books.

This vote is open to all faculty, staff, administrators, and students at CCBC. I encourage you discuss with your colleagues and students, read some of the reviews online; do some research before casting your email ballot.

If you are a faculty member, please take the time to inform your students of this program.  Let them know that voting information is located on this web site.

Thanks so very much for participating in this CCBC-wide program!

 Warmly,

Kim Jensen
Chair of the Community Book Connection
(410) 780-6778

A Note on the Selections from Vice President Mark McColloch

In my opinion, an excellent job has been done in selecting the five interesting and important books that are the nominees for our Community Book for the 2007-2008 academic year.  In making your selection of the final choice, I ask you to consider the issues listed below, along with the intrinsic merits of the books.  Perhaps no book can meet all these criteria, but they are worthy of consideration as you make your selection:

1. The book should contain theme(s) that lend themselves to use by various departments and functions across the College.
2. The book should be written at a level that is accessible to a large number of our students.
3. The book should not be prohibitively expensive.
4. The book should have or lend itself to a related theater piece.
5. The book should be related to contemporary issues.
6. The book should easily be tied into existing CCBC annual events or ongoing programs/initiatives.
7. The book should not be excessively lengthy or should have chapters or sections that may be truly studied independent of the whole work.
8. The book should already have been successfully utilized in classrooms.

Mark McColloch
Vice President for Instruction