Bergen Community College: Common Read Gets Bergen On The Same Page

Press release from Bergen Community College:

September 22, 2021

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With the interdisciplinary support of nearly three dozen faculty and staff across disciplines and professional areas, the common read committee has developed a yearlong schedule of cocurricular and extracurricular events to support the concurrent reading of the work. Students, faculty, and staff can join the dialogue by participating in a reading group or take part in other campus events.

“This is the first time that Bergen has had a campus-wide reading experience,” Lou Ethel Roliston, Ph.D., English professor and chair of the project, s

aid. “I think the excitement surrounding the project and the willingness of students, faculty and staff to participate and to move beyond the Bergen campus speaks to the shared desire and responsibility we feel collectively to engage in discussions of topics related to race and social justice.”

Roliston said the goals and objectives of the initiative speak directly to the goals and objectives of the College’s diversity, equity and inclusion work. Bergen re

Based in Paramus, Bergen Community College (www.bergen.edu), a public two-year coeducational college, enrolls more than 13,000 students at locations in Paramus, the Philip Ciarco Jr. Learning Center in Hackensack and Bergen Community College at the Meadowlands in Lyndhurst. The College offers associate degree, certificate and continuing education programs in a variety of fields. More students graduate from Bergen than any other community college in the state.

This press release was produced by Bergen Community College. The views expressed here are the author’s own.