Reedley College, part of the State Center Community College District, is aiming to create several zero textbook cost degrees using open educational resources. By Cameron Clark ...

As a new academic year kicks off, maybe your first in college, I want to share some advice, whether at a community college, a four-year university or a public or private institution. It is about ...

This kind of effort produces “open educational resources,” and system leaders want to roll out these free-of-charge materials to all 116 California community college (CCC) campuses.

BATAVIA, Ohio (WKRC) - A professor at a local college is easing the cost of education for her students. After having a tough time finding affordable textbooks on the market, Patty Goedl decided to ...

If you prefer e-books, Amazon has a more extensive collection. Many Kindle versions of textbooks can cost as little as $0.99, but others can cost just as much as a physical copy.

College doesn’t come cheap, especially when you consider the textbooks, housing, school supplies and day-to-day expenses involved. To help ease college students’ financial burden, companies ...

In 2021, Gov. Newsom and the Legislature appropriated $115 million for a statewide Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) degree program that would increase the availability of pathways across the California ...

We're breaking down the expenses to consider and ways our local institutions are setting their students up for success ...

Textbooks continue to eat up a significant amount of college students' budgets. Claudia Munoz, a New Mexico State University sophomore, spent $500 on textbooks alone this semester.

Between 1977 and 2015, the cost of textbooks rose by three times the rate of inflation. By 2016, the average college student could expect to spend at least $1,200 for course materials and supplies.

Having textbooks that contain publicly funded research, being only accessed by people willing to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars is undemocratic and keeps inequities present in education.

A statement from the chair or director that describes the textbook’s educational value to the college, including types of courses and students served, contributions to new curriculum and/or teaching ...