WELCOME TO THE IU SOUTHEAST COMMON EXPERIENCE
An annual program designed to cultivate a common intellectual conversation across campus, to strengthen the sense of community at Southeast and in the region, to encourage open discussion, civil discourse, and critical thinking, and to enhance the reputation of Southeast as a regional center of learning excellence.
Members of the local communities of Indiana and Kentucky are encouraged to join us for a series of events centered around the theme of our fifth year of the Common Experience program. The Common Experience theme for 2011-2012 is "Liberty and Justice for All? Social Change and Campus Action for 70 Years and Beyond."
The theme serves to link together a common reading and a series of campus speakers, programs, discussions, and movies throughout the academic year. Most of these events will be free to the community.
The students, staff, and faculty at IU Southeast invite you to read with us the selected Common Experience texts, The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler (2005) and A Country for All: An Immigrant Manifesto by Jorge Ramos (2010). Shipler’s examination of poverty in America and Ramos’s arguments about immigration reform both provide thought-provoking viewpoints on social justice issues.
You can download and view Common Expereience booklets from past years and see previous contest winners by visiting our Common Expereience in Prior Years page.
