Committee to cut down textbook prices | The Daily Utah Chronicle

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-01-17

Summary:

"An Academic Senate committee is looking for ways to save students $500 a year on textbooks. Meredith Metzger, a professor of mechanical engineering, is the head of the committee, which was formed by Allyson Mower, leader of the Academic Senate and assistant librarian at the Marriott Library. Mower said the committee will make recommendations to professors and instructors who are adopting textbooks to help reduce costs. The Academic Senate formed the committee earlier this month. ASUU Academic Affairs director Rachel Wootton, a student representative on the committee and a senior in political science, said the group hopes to spend the next few weeks brainstorming ideas and will present their findings to the Academic Senate at the end of the semester ..."

Link:

http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/index.php/committee-aims-to-lower-textbook-costs/

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oa.new oa.comment oa.u.utah oa.students oa.advocacy oa.textbooks oa.libraries oa.librarians oa.prices oa.books

Date tagged:

01/17/2014, 09:40

Date published:

01/17/2014, 04:40