This fall, students from GEP 101, First-Year Foundations and a few UHC sections will not be the only ones reading Outcasts United, Missouri State's 2012-2013 common reader. GEP 101 faculty Carol Gosselink, Patrick Grayshaw, Diane Leamy, Paula Moore, Kathy Nordyke, and Dane Wallace, will pilot a new service-learning opportunity that brings the message and story behind the common reader to the community. Much of the effort for this new common reader service-learning model is based on the result of Communications Senior Instructor Robyn Rowe's stellar collaboration efforts to promote the University's common reader throughout the community, which in turn, provides new ways for our GEP 101 students to engage in service-learning. The above named instructors will select one of four options, centered around the common reader, for their integrated service-learning experience. Options include: 1) serving as reading discussion leaders at public libraries, 2) reading partners at multicultural, veterans, or other community organizations, 3) reading buddies for hospice patients or at health … [Read more...] about New Common Reader service-learning model gains momentum