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Abdurraqib's memoir "There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension" was chosen as the 2026-27 Common Reading.

�鶹��Ƶ is ranked among the Top 100 national universities and continues to stand out for excellence in undergraduate education, earning top marks for teaching and student experiences in the 2027 edition of the U.S. News & World Report “Best Colleges” rankings.

Nineteen faculty members have been selected for four extended faculty development programs in community-based pedagogy

Faculty and staff across campus units collaborate on a new publication that makes the case for intentional faculty development centered on the unique needs of first-year students.

Along with other members of the Penguin Random House Common Reads Advisory Board, Paula Patch, associate director of the Common Reading Program and First-Year Foundations in the �鶹��Ƶ Core Curriculum and associate teaching professor of English, facilitated a half-day workshop on launching and sustaining a Common Reading program at the annual Conference on the First-Year Experience in Seattle in February.

Award-winning author Alejandra Campoverdi turned the 2025-26 Common Reading Lecture into a conversation, taking questions from �鶹��Ƶ students about her life of “extreme contradictions" detailed in her memoir "First-Gen."

Saffie Hollingsworth '27 has created a board game to help first-year students navigate university.

A contingent of faculty and staff leaders within �鶹��Ƶ's First-Year Experience Advisory Committee attended the national First-Year Experience conference in New Orleans, Louisiana to share �鶹��Ƶ's #1 ranked First-Year Experience work.

Adventures in Leadership sessions focus on the successful transition of incoming first-year students through community building, finding resources and having conversations about college life at �鶹��Ƶ.

The Engage program at �鶹��Ƶ provides an opportunity for incoming students to spend a week on campus before their first semester, learning more about the university and volunteering in the local community.