Read. Reflect. Connect. @ HPU Libraries
- Read. Engage with a shared text and consider the ideas, questions, and experiences it brings to mind.
- Reflect. Think about how those ideas connect to your own experiences, values, relationships, and understanding of yourself.
- Connect. Hear different perspectives, share your own, and discover what we can learn from one another.
This Year’s Read
2027 Featured Selection: The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
What does it mean to live a happier, more intentional life? Throughout the Spring 2027 semester, participants will be invited to explore these ideas through community dialogue, creative expression, film, reflection, and opportunities to connect.
Read. Reflect. Connect. @ HPU Libraries is an annual community reading and engagement initiative that brings students, faculty, and staff together around a shared text and a shared opportunity to explore ideas that matter.
Supporting High Point University’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) on Emotional Intelligence, Read. Reflect. Connect. goes beyond reading a book. Through conversation, reflection, creative expression, and shared experiences, the initiative creates opportunities to better understand ourselves, learn from the perspectives of others, and strengthen our connections across the HPU community.
Supporting High Point University’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) on Emotional Intelligence, Read. Reflect. Connect. goes beyond reading a book. Through conversation, reflection, creative expression, and shared experiences, the initiative creates opportunities to better understand ourselves, learn from the perspectives of others, and strengthen our connections across the HPU community.
Why Read Together?
Reflection creates understanding. Dialogue creates empathy. Community creates belonging.
We encounter more information than ever before. But consuming information is not the same as engaging deeply with ideas, or with one another.
Reading together gives us a reason to slow down, reflect, ask questions, exchange perspectives, and make meaning together. A shared book becomes a starting point for conversations that might not otherwise happen and connections that might not otherwise be made.
Your Perspective Is Part of the Story. You do not need to be a literary expert or arrive with all the answers. Read. Reflect. Connect. is designed for curiosity, conversation, and discovery.
Your Perspective Is Part of the Story. You do not need to be a literary expert or arrive with all the answers. Read. Reflect. Connect. is designed for curiosity, conversation, and discovery.