TO:

One Book, One Campus Committee

FROM:

Amanya Salmon, ENC 3250 Professional Writing Students

DATE:

September 21, 2015

SUBJECT:

Response to One Book, One Campus Recommendations

This is in respose to your request for OBOC suggestions. Looking at books that embodied
shared life experience, sustainable society and the ability to help overcome diversity, I was able
to stop my search at this three book:
Title

Author

Publisher,
Publication
Date
Princeton
University
Press /April
2008

ISBN

Cost/Numbers
of Pages

ISBN: 9780691143866
ISBN: 0691143
862

$9.71/
280
pages

Cop In The
Hood

Peter
Moskos

Whistling
Vivaldi:
How
Stereotypes
Affect Us
and What
We Can Do
A Hope In
The Unseen:
An
American
Odyssey
from the
Inner City to
the Ivy
League

Claude
Steele

W. W, Norton
& Company /
April 12, 2010

ISBN:
0393339726
ISBN: 9780393339727

$9.19/
256
Pages

Ron
Suskind

Broadway
Books/ June
1998

ISBN: 9780767901260
ISBN: 0767901
266

$6.85 $12.00
/373
Pages

Brief Summary

Tells the story of a well-trained- Harvard

sociologist that left the classroom, hitting
the street of The Baltimore Eastern
District as a cop. We are able to see the
ways of street through his eyes, from
how unprepared for the street police
graduates are to failure of the war on
drugs.
*This book is being used at Princeton
Unversity.
Written by one of the few great social
psychologists, Claude M. Steele. In this
book, it touch base on all the stereotypes
that is seen in today society. From social
phenomena on races and gender gap on
test performance.
*Smith College used this book in 2014.
This book feature Cedric Jennings, an
honor students that comes from the inner
city. It cover the difficulties that he will
have to face for his quest to reach his
academic aspirations. Both from his
peers in the inner city and the students of
the ivy league.
*Western New England University in
2011.

These three books would all be an excellent choices to use for the OBOC project and the uses of
them at FGCU Campus would be a good fit as well. Every book represents a shared experience
that the readers can gather information on and learn to use them in their present and future lives.
The books provide academic enhancement through cross-curricular, which labeled as one of the
outcomes from the memo. Each book has something that associates with the mission and guiding
principles of FGCU. A Hope In the Unseen touches on the source of diversity, students success at
university and the use of academic in lives of many. Whistling Vivaldi exemplifies all of the
mission and guiding principles, it helps and motivates individuals that are victims of stereotype

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and the way to handle that. A lot of students can honestly say that they have been victim to it.
The students at FGCU will find all of these books interesting because some can identify with the
situation or experience that happen in the book.
Looking for books that future student can read is a exciting experience and the OBOC is a great
way that can get them ready for the future. I know the committee will look to six to eight book to
be review, however I believe that books I mention should be in that amount. If not all those three
books at least one. A Hope in The Unsees, is one that definetly should be review by the
committee. This book talks about the life and experience of students that is going to plenty