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Suggestions for the First-Year Experience

February 13, 2007

The first year of college can be an exciting and challenging time for students. By encouraging summer reading or seminar classes, students can immediately form a common bond and a way to ease into their new and exciting academic lives. Keppler on Campus is pleased to share our roster of distinguished speakers and writers with your students! Sharing these great stories, books, and speakers will help teach amazing and important lessons, and will help forge unforgettable friendships during the pivotal freshman year.

John Bul Dau
Lost Boy of Sudan Featured in the Film God Grew Tired of Us
Arun Gandhi
Peace Activist and Proponent of Nonviolence
Nikki Giovanni
Author, Poet, Essayist, and Professor
Myla Goldberg
Author of Bee Season and Wickett's Remedy
Jonathan Kozol
Award-Winning Author and Advocate for Educational Equality
Jane Smiley
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author and Critic
Jeannette Walls
Best-Selling Author of The Glass Castle