Texas A&M Wins Academic Award

"Texas A&M University has been named the winner of the first SEC [Southeastern Conference] Academic Collaboration Award the league office announced Tuesday....The grant will be awarded annually to one SEC institution, as determined by the SEC Provosts, to support joint activities involving all other SEC universities....Texas A&M's proposal is entitled Advocating for Change in Scholarly Communication: A Collaboration Between Student Governments and the Libraries of the SEC. It calls for a two-day workshop focused on raising the profile of research produced by SEC universities through the use of high quality, openly licensed textbooks...."