Ithaca College

Submitted by Rosalie Fitzgerald for Tanya R. Saunders, assistant provost and dean of Interdisciplinary and International Studies.

Dear Colleagues,

The First-Year Reading Committee will soon begin its deliberations. Our plan is to recommend 4 to 5 books to President Williams prior to Winter Break 2007.

Since 2003, new incoming students have read:

2003 The Color of Water, James McBride
2004 Living Downstream, Sandra Steingraber
2005 The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
2006 Life of Pi, Yann Martel
2007 The Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie

Please send any suggestions addressed to me (tsaunders@ithaca.edu) by September 13, 2007. Thank you.