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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since its inception five years ago, the college’s open educational resources program has saved students more than $7 million in textbook costs, Curtis-Chávez said.

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.

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.

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 ...

Lake Michigan College reports that the LMC Foundation will be covering the cost of textbooks for LMC students who qualify under the LMC Guarantee, a financial aid program for in-district high school ...

Textbooks will be free to students who provide proof of their shots before school starts Aug. 23. The college's Board of Trustees approved the textbook incentive last week.

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.

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