Nicole Allen
Encyclopedia
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. Her work has been covered in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today
, TIME
the Los Angeles Times
, and US News and World Report.
Make Textbooks Affordable
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...
. 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. Her work has been covered in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today
USA Today
USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
, TIME
Time
Time is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects....
the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
, and US News and World Report.