Campus Reading Program

The Litowitz Center for Enlightened Disagreement is pleased to sponsor Northwestern’s Campus Reading Program. Each year, the Litowitz Center facilitates a process to select a reading that will engage undergraduate students and the wider campus community. While works across genres will be considered, a thread of enlightened disagreement will run through all readings that are ultimately selected. This thread may be reflected—perhaps subtly—in journalistic reporting, social scientific research, narratives of a memoir, or character development in fiction.

Through the Campus Reading Program, the Litowitz Center seeks to introduce diverse segments of the campus community to themes, mindsets, and skills associated with enlightened disagreement. Along with an annual keynote event in Fall Quarter to focus students, faculty, and staff on the selection, the Litowitz Center will partner with schools and units to host events related to the selection. Participation in the Campus Reading Program will hopefully prompt further interest in enlightened disagreement and involvement in the life of the Center.