LitSphere: Creating a Culture of Reading

The mission of the Chowan University Lit Sphere Program is to encourage students to become intrinsically motivated readers by fostering a culture of reading for pleasure. We believe that reading for enjoyment will result in students reading more. As a result, we hope students will become more intellectually curious, more engaged as citizens, and more likely to become lifelong learners.

The goals of the program are to increase students’ enjoyment and pleasure in reading and to increase the quantity of material students read. These goals are accomplished through the following three student learning outcomes:

Students will increase reading.
Students will apply appropriate reading strategies.
Students will increase reading proficiency.

Initiatives designed to achieve the goals include:

Reading A Book in CU 101 - Life Skills I
Reading Nooks