Patrick Spoor: Make college textbooks more affordable
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...
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