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CICC Intellectual Theme and Programming

 

2024 Intellectual Theme: Connection, Coalition, Change

 

The Cultural and Intellectual Community Council (CICC) selects the annual intellectual theme related to the Summer Reading and distributes funds for related programming during the Academic year. The 2024 Summer Reading selection for the class of 2028 is Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World by Katharine Hayhoe. The Intellectual Theme for CICC sponsored programs in 2024-25 is Connection, Coalition, Change. Connection, Coalition, Change centers on methods, individuals, and organizations that seek to find common ground in recognizing societal problems and finding ways to work cooperatively to effect change.

 

The 2024 Summer Reading selection for the class of 2028 is Saving Us:  A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World  by Katharine Hayhoe. United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe knows how to navigate all sides of a conversation on our changing planet. Over the past fifteen years, Hayhoe has found that the most important thing we can do to address climate change is to talk about it—and she wants to teach you how. In Saving Us, Hayhoe argues that when it comes to changing hearts and minds, facts are only one part of the equation. We need to find shared values in order to connect our unique identities to collective action. This is a unique book with a  multilayered look at science, faith, and human psychology, from an icon in her field; she was recently named chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy. Saving Us leaves us with the tools to open a fruitful dialogue about a controversial topic by first finding common ground and building consensus.

 

The theme “Connection, Coalition, Change” invites us to pursue conversations about climate change and other challenging topics. Hayhoe invites us to reflect on the concerns we share and our common goals, and to build alliances to achieve small and large scale change. We hope that reading this book will encourage the campus to engage in community-centered problem-solving and organize rich and varied programming throughout the year.

 

 

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