{"id":5821,"date":"2019-10-10T12:57:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T19:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/library\/?p=5821"},"modified":"2022-02-04T14:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T21:22:20","slug":"textbook-affordability-program-surpasses-1-million-in-student-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/library\/2019\/10\/10\/textbook-affordability-program-surpasses-1-million-in-student-savings\/","title":{"rendered":"Textbook Affordability Program Surpasses $1 Million in Student Savings!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We are pleased to announce that last year the Libraries Textbook Affordability Program celebrated a major milestone when it reached $1,085,000<\/strong>* in GFU student savings!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response to the rapidly increasing price of textbooks, the George Fox University Libraries established the Textbook Affordability Program to reduce cost and to help students in their academic success. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The program started in 2016 as an Open Textbook Initiative, funded by a George Fox Innovation Grant from the Office of the President. We joined the Open Textbook Network<\/a> (OTN), an alliance of higher education institutions committed to improving access, affordability, and academic success through the use of open textbooks. The grant provided incentives for faculty to review and adopt open textbooks from the Open Textbook Library <\/a>(OTL), replacing expensive textbooks. Funding was also made available for faculty who wanted to author an open textbook. The Libraries has published three George Fox faculty-authored open textbooks so far through Pennington ePress in the Digital Commons<\/a>, and a fourth is in process. These are also included in the OTL<\/a>, where faculty from around the world can review and adopt them for their own courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our 2019 conference presentation, Engaged Faculty, Student Success, and $1 Million in Savings<\/a> documents specifics of the strategy we used to surpass one million dollars in student savings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, George Fox faculty reviewed ten more open textbooks, bringing our total reviews to nearly 40. See them listed, along with the open textbooks our faculty have adopted, on our Faculty Champions<\/a> page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just this month, Anna Berardi (Graduate School of Counseling) and Brenda Morton (School of Education) published their open textbook, the third to appear in Pennington ePress: Trauma-Informed School Practices: Building Expertise to Transform Schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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George Fox University Open Textbooks<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Previous successes of the program are mentioned in these blog posts: <\/p>\n\n\n\n