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Highlander Post Views: 176 On Wednesday, April 22, ASUCR held their fourth meeting of the quarter. Members of The California Public Interest Research Group at UCR spoke during public forum in support of an upcoming piece of legislation advocating for the use of open textbooks at UCR.  Ria Mavinkure, the UCR chapter chair for CALPIRG, urged the senate to vote “yes” on the resolution and expressed her support for open textbooks or Open Educational Resources. “As a student that received financial aid, I understand that it’s a nearly impossible hardship that comes with achievi...

Amid expensive textbooks, tuition and fees, instructors at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are utilizing the Successful Teaching with Affordable Resources initiative to reduce the cost of course materials.

Patrick Spoor: Make college textbooks more affordable Published: 2/21/2021 6:00:15 PM Us college students around the Five Colleges are all made well aware of the stark price of our education every semester when we have to buy textbooks. Whether they be $80 access codes to let us submit math homework or the newest edition of an economics textbook that costs $200, more than the usual one, our reality is clear. Textbooks are way too expensive. I used to be a math major at Amherst, and a major source of stress for up-and-coming mathematicians is the prospect of “Comps,” or the Comprehensive...

Allan Hancock College has received a new grant that will save students millions of dollars by granting free textbooks and other open-learning materials.