Edmonds College Community Read: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Home

Each year, the campus and community come together to read one book in order to:

• Build community through a common intellectual experience.
  
  
• Promote literacy across the campus and community through the adoption of thoughtful, noteworthy works of literature or scholarship.
  
  
• Offer faculty an opportunity to invigorate curriculum with vital issues and great ideas.
  
  
• Enrich the lives of students, faculty, staff and the people of South Snohomish County.

Edmonds CC Community Read Scholarship Available

Apply by 5 pm, Friday January 31

The Edmonds Community College Foundations sponsors three scholarships of $1300 to cover spring quarter tuition.  To apply, Edmonds CC students must read the selected book and create a project addressing any of the key themes of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.  For eligibility and application, visit the website here.

Winners announced February 13th

Get the book  Check out The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks from the library or buy your own copy.

Read  Between now and February 2014, join students, faculty, and staff in reading the book.

Join in discussions. 

Attend campus events.

Contribute to our online discussion group on Ning.

For more information, visit the EdCC Community Read website here.