{"id":26091,"date":"2024-01-08T13:18:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T18:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=26091"},"modified":"2024-01-08T13:18:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T18:18:19","slug":"hlc-quality-initiative-recommended-campus-wide-reading-for-spring-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2024\/01\/hlc-quality-initiative-recommended-campus-wide-reading-for-spring-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"HLC Quality Initiative Recommended Campus-Wide Reading for Spring 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To support and stimulate campus-wide conversation about Marshall\u2019s Quality Initiative \u2013 <strong><em>Building a Stronger and More Inclusive Marshall Community<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 we encourage everyone to read and discuss the following books during the spring semester.\u00a0 The messages of both books align to the Quality Initiative\u2019s 2023-2024 theme, \u201c<em>Building Bridges<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns<\/em> by William H. Turner<\/li>\n<li><em>Solito: A Memoir <\/em>by Javier Zamora<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Goodreads (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/en\/book\/show\/57691816\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/en\/book\/show\/57691816<\/a>) describes the <em>Harlan Renaissance <\/em>as \u201can intimate remembrance of kinship and community in eastern Kentucky\u2019s coal towns written by one of the luminaries of Appalachian studies, Willima Turner.\u201d\u00a0 It is the winner of the Weatherford Award for Nonfiction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Solito<\/em> is a New York Times bestseller, which NPR described as a \u201cgripping memoir\u201d of bravery, hope, and finding family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watch for information about upcoming lectures and discussions featuring these books!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To support and stimulate campus-wide conversation about Marshall\u2019s Quality Initiative \u2013 Building a Stronger and More Inclusive Marshall Community \u2013 we encourage everyone to read and discuss the following books during the spring semester.\u00a0 The messages of both books align to the Quality Initiative\u2019s 2023-2024 theme, \u201cBuilding Bridges.\u201d The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26092,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26091\/revisions\/26092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}