BY TUCKER REILLY, MANAGING EDITOR St. Bonaventure University hosted a keynote speaker this week, as a part of the All Bonaventure Reads (ABR) program. Nora Shalaway Carpenter, editor of the anthology “Rural Voices,” spoke to an audience of freshmen, faculty and others from the Reilly Center court on Oct. 20. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic,…
Committee weighs decision of next ABR book
By Tucker Reilly, News Assignment Editor The All Bonaventure Reads (ABR) program at St. Bonaventure University is a yearly project – originally started in 2006 – given to incoming freshmen, in which each student is given the same book to read and write on before hearing the author speak later in the semester. Sarah Barnard, the assistant director of the university’s Student Success Center, described the impact that the ABR program has on incoming students, offering a shared experience for students on their first days of class. “The way [the program] works is we hand out books to students during orientation, and have them read and complete a writing assignment over the summer,” said Barnard. “This is usually very helpful in making sure all freshmen are on the same page coming in, and it works in harmony with the required SBU-101 classes they take.”