Nominate Now
October of 2009 marks the inaugural Book Nomination Month for Boise State University’s First Year Read.
Since 2006, various students, faculty, and staff have come together to establish a First Year Read program that would give all new students a shared learning experience to serve as the cornerstone of their first year at the university.
In striving to make the best possible choice for our incoming students, the process will now officially begin with current students submitting nominations. For a complete description of the process, click here.
In order to effectively organize and screen book nominations, the following criteria shall be applied to the process. Nominations that do not include or utilize these criteria or exclude information necessary for screening may be eliminated from the final list that is forwarded to the selection committee for review.
- Book Information: the nomination should include book title, author, copyright date, publisher, page count.
- Page count: the nominated book length should be manageable for incoming students. Most books over 300 pages may not be a manageable for new students to read during the summer before their first year
- Genre: books may be nominated from a range of genres
- Connection to theme: each nomination must draw direct ties between the nominated book and the theme of selected for the year.
- Purpose: the nomination should address the question, “Why do you want new students to read this book?”
- Connection to relevant topics: nominations should address how the book could be tied to a variety of elements relating to the theme, e.g., local/regional history or events, other classes being offered or disciplines, possible programs that could be done or are already being implemented.
- The nomination need not be more than 500 words (but can be).
Ready to nominate the book thousands of first-year students will read next summer? Click here!