Category: Go Big Read News
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Author Clint Smith to give Go Big Read keynote Nov. 1
Posted on October 5, 2022October 3, 2022 By Käri Knutson Clint Smith’s “How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America” […]
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Go Big Read Celebrates Eleven Years
Posted on April 16, 2020The Go Big Read Program was started in 2009 by past Chancellor Carolyn “Biddy” Martin with the goal of the engaging members […]
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Majority of Americans See Drug Addiction as a Disease
Posted on April 16, 2018A recent survey summarized by the The Daily News revealed that a majority of Americans view prescription drug addiction as a disease. However, […]
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Go Big Read Program now Accepting Book Suggestions
Posted on November 16, 2017It’s that time of the year again… the Go Big Read Program will now be taking suggestions for the 2018-2019 Go Big […]
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Panel of UW-Madison Experts to Speak Next Week
Posted on October 5, 2017Clear your schedules… on October 9th at 7:00 p.m., UW-Madison’s Go Big Read Program will host a Panelist discussion of themes and […]
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Integrate Latest Go Big Read Book into your Course!
Posted on May 4, 2017On Tuesday, Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced the title of the forthcoming 2017-18 Go Big Read book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family […]
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Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance is Chosen as the 2017-18 Go Big Read Book
Posted on May 2, 2017Today, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Chancellor, Rebecca Blank, announced that the forthcoming 2017-2018 Go Big Read book is to […]
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Evicted Wins Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
Posted on April 12, 2017It is with much pride we share that this year’s Go Big Read text, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by UW […]
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Go Big Read Art on Display in Teaching and Learning Programs Office
Posted on April 4, 2017This past fall we shared that the Wisconsin School of Business’s direct admit LEAD course and the Go Big Read program had […]
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Seeking Go Big Read Book Suggestions Once More
Posted on December 19, 2016Here we are again. It seems like it was just yesterday that we were scanning “Best of 2015” book lists, reviewing community […]
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Art and Go Big Read: How Curriculum, Creativity, and Evicted Intersect on Campus
Posted on November 16, 2016This week Wisconsin School of Business students and the Go Big Read program partnered to harness art as a means to further […]
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Reliving Matthew Desmond’s Visit
Posted on November 10, 2016Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, visited this past Tuesday, November 1st, giving eager students, faculty, and […]