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Courtesy of the Arora Family Charitable Foundation Shirley Arora April 20, 2021 Shirley Arora, professor emerita in the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, died March 23 in Lake Oswego, Oregon. She was 90. During her 37-year career at UCLA, Arora became the first woman to chair the Spanish and Portuguese department, a position she held for 10 years. She was a member in key campuswide committees, including the Council on Academic Personnel, and she was the president of the Faculty Center. Arora retired from UCLA in 2000, the same year she became the founding trustee of the Arora Family ...
Four Years of Open Books Page Content By Dragan Gill Textbook costs have risen at an unbelievable rate in the last few decades – faster than inflation, most child-care costs and even some medical costs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a rise in costs of nearly 1,000 percent in the last three decades. This has become a real barrier in assessing a college education. In a 2016 Florida State Textbook Survey, 66.5 percent of students reported not purchasing a required textbook and 47.6 percent reported taking fewer courses due to textbook costs. Rhode Island College decided to addre...