Abstract
This paper outlines the experience of four universities that collaborated on a pre-arrival shared reading project, the Big Read, in 2018/2019. They did so primarily to promote student engagement and retention and also to ease the transition into higher education, particularly for first-generation students, to promote staff connectedness, and to provide a USP (unique selling point) for their institution. The paper covers all the associated processes, from isolating the respective aims of the collaborators to the choosing and sharing of a single agreed title. In analysing the outcomes, recommendations are made for future cross-institutional projects of this kind.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 34-65 |
Number of pages | 32 |
Journal | LOGOS-JOURNAL OF THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMMUNITY |
Volume | 31 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 19 Nov 2020 |
Keywords
- higher education
- pre-arrival shared reading
- transition
- welcome
- Freshers
- common-read