2022-2023
Theme: "All In: Expanding Our Disability Advocacy"
Reading: Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong (2020)
2021-2022
Theme: "Sharing Your Journey: The Power of a Single Story"
Reading:Uplifting Stories: True Tales to Inspire You to Take Action by Ione Butler (2020)
2020-2021
Theme: "Sustainability: Being Mindful and Making a Difference"
Reading:Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage by Dianne D. Glave (2010)
2019-2020
Theme: "Tolerance and the Struggle for Human Rights in Communities.”
Reading: The Laramie Project and the Laramie Project Ten Years Later by Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Project (2014)
2018-2019
Theme: "Think Global, Act Local”
Reading: Where Am I Wearing? by Kelsey Timmerman (2012)
2017-2018
Theme: "Cultures in Crisis: Circumstances and Cultures"
Reading: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance (2016)
2016-2017
Theme: "Making Choices: Defining Who You Are"
Reading: The Terrorist’s Son: A Story of Choice by Zak Ebrahim (2014)
2015-2016
Theme: "Building Communities in a Global Society"
Reading: Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman’s Quest to Make a Difference by Warren St. John
2014-2015
Theme: "The Gift of Empathy: Seeing the World through the Eyes of Another"
2013-2014
Theme: "Public and Private Ethics: Who Decides?"
2012-2013
Theme: "Education in America: Relevance and Empowerment"
2011-2012
Theme: "Liberty and Justice for All? Social Change and Campus Action for 70 Years and Beyond"
Readings: The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler (2005), A Country for All: An Immigrant Manifesto by Jorge Ramos (2010)
2010-2011
Theme: "Living in the Digital Age: Virtual Community or Real Connectedness?"
Reading: I’m Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier (2011)
2009-2010
Theme: "Health and Humanity in the New Millennium: Where Do We Go From Here?"
Readings: My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (2004), The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan (2006)
2008-2009
Theme: "Greening of Earth: Whose Responsibility?"
Readings: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (2003), Whose Water is It? The Unquenchable Thirst of a Water-Hungry World by Bernadette McDonald (2003)
2007-2008
Theme: "Identity in a Multicultural World: Who Am I?"
Readings: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (1995), Skull Wars: Kenniwick Man, Archeology,and the Battle for Native American Identity by David Hurst Thomas (1999)
2006-2007
Theme: "Citizens making a difference in America."
Reading: Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody