Make Textbooks Affordable
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The Make Textbooks Affordable campaign is a project of the Student PIRGs
to reduce the high cost of college textbooks. The campaign, which launched in 2003, is best known for its research on textbook affordability and its advocacy for open textbooks. The campaign has organized more than 2,600 professors to sign the Open Textbooks Statement of Intent and created a catalog of open textbooks.
The Student PIRGs have worked with the U.S. PIRG to promote transparency and accountability for textbook pricing in higher education. A website to assure access to accurate textbook pricing information is forthcoming. The Student PIRGs also released a summary of the Higher Education Opportunity Act's textbook provisions to facilitate understanding of legislation that became effective July 1, 2010.
Campaign Director: Nicole Allen
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to reduce the high cost of college textbooks. The campaign, which launched in 2003, is best known for its research on textbook affordability and its advocacy for open textbooks. The campaign has organized more than 2,600 professors to sign the Open Textbooks Statement of Intent and created a catalog of open textbooks.
The Student PIRGs have worked with the U.S. PIRG to promote transparency and accountability for textbook pricing in higher education. A website to assure access to accurate textbook pricing information is forthcoming. The Student PIRGs also released a summary of the Higher Education Opportunity Act's textbook provisions to facilitate understanding of legislation that became effective July 1, 2010.
Campaign Director: Nicole Allen
Nicole Allen
Nicole Allen is the Textbooks Advocate for The Student PIRGs and Campaign Director for Make Textbooks Affordable. She is best known for organizing over 2,000 professors to support the open textbooks and for authoring a report that challenges the publishing industry's digital textbook practices...
Reports
- Ripoff 101 (2004)
- Ripoff 101: 2nd Edition (2005)
- A Guide to Establishing Textbook Rental Programs (2005)
- Textbooks for the 21st Century (2006)
- Required Reading (2006)
- Exposing the Textbook Industry (2007)
- Course Correction (2008)
- A Cover to Cover Solution (2010)