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First Year Experience: 2025 Common Read

Helpful information and links for students in the FYE 100 course.

AUTHOR INFO AND CAMPUS PRESENTATION

Emi Nietfeld will be meeting with  Defiance College's  FYE 100 students on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @7pm in the Schomburg Auditorium.*

Lectureship is generously supported by the Ralph and Lorna Peters Lectureship and the E.S. Dix Lectureship.

The annual Common Read program has a long history at Defiance College as a cross-campus, multidisciplinary experience that connects students and faculty in a shared intellectual experience, inspiring curiosity and sparking conversation. We engage with meaningful texts of our time and provide a space for discourse in the FYE 100 course. 

Common Reads of the past several years:

2016 The Other Wes Moore  by Wes Moore
2017 Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas
2018 Prisoner of Her Past by Howard Reich
2019 Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nyugyen
2020 Full Body Burden by Kristen Iversen
2021 What the Eyes Don't See by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha
2022 The Art of Inventing Hope: Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel by Howard Reich
2023 Searching for Every Step: Finding Purpose in Living with Spinal Muscular Atrophy by Kurt E. Beach
2024 Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education by Stephanie Land
2025 Acceptance: A Memoir by Emi Nietfeld

2025 FYE 100 - COMMON READ

Emi Nietfeld (author of Acceptance) at the FYE® Conference 2024

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