Colorado College seeks proposals for our 2026-27 Common Read, a tradition that has provided our campus community with shared intellectual experiences since 1970. In addition, the Common Read frames the shared inquiry of our new first-year course, CC Elevate. As such, we seek texts that combine our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion with critical reflection on higher education, intellectual development, and belonging in academic spaces.
Over the past two years, we've had great success with collections like bell hooks' Belonging and Alice Wong's edited collection, Disability Visibility. Ideal texts will: