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Big Day for Open Education!

Monday, March 5, 2012

Affordable Textbooks Advocate

Today kicked off two major initiatives for open education: the first annual Open Education Week and the Why Open Education Matters video competition.

Federal Textbook Price Disclosure Law

The HEOA, short for the Higher Education Opportunity Act, is a higher education reform bill passed by Congress in 2008. Among the many provisions in HEOA was a set of important regulations to help make textbooks affordable, which went into effect July 1, 2010.

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Make Textbooks Affordable: Recommendations to Faculty

Faculty are in charge of selecting textbooks, which puts them in a key position to help students save money. Follow these guidelines to help minimize costs.

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Tips to Save on Textbooks

Even though students are stuck paying publishers' outrageous prices, you do have a few tools to reduce how much you spend. Being a smart consumer could save you hundreds of dollars every year. Follow these tips to save on textbooks!

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Groups target textbook prices to rein in college costs

A push to create free or inexpensive textbooks is gaining momentum as educators, philanthropists and policymakers nationwide search for new ways to rein in college costs.

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Diamondback Editorial about Textbook Costs and Solutions

Yesterday, the Diamondback editorialized about textbook costs and the proposed state law that would create a tax holidays for textbooks during the first 2 weeks of the semester. Unforuntately, this is not a real solution to textbook affordability and the Diamondback agrees. Check out the full article and the quotes from our US PIRG report about textbook affordability.

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Maryland Should Actually Make Textbooks More Affordable

Monday, February 13, 2012

By | Brian Compere

Media Coordinator

As The Diamondback pointed out in its staff editorial Monday, there are other ways to alleviate students’ financial burdens of overly expensive textbooks. Other states have already produced viable alternatives to tax-exemption legislation. Check out the full story!

Affordable Textbooks Table

Friday, January 27, 2012

By | Cat Tappert

Affordable Textbooks Campaign Coordinator

If you think textbook prices are too high, you are not alone. Over the course of just two days, we collected over 300 signatures to make textbooks more affordable.

Textbooks Project Packet

Want to join the fight to make textbooks affordable? Download this resource for everything you need to know to organize the textbooks campaign on your campus this spring.

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Fall 2011 Events

Students let Professors know they want more affordable Textbooks!
College Park citizens cast their votes in the City Council election.
Students participate in a survey about water bottle use and accessibility to refilling stations on campus.
Tabling at the First Look Fair with over 200 other student groups!
The Textbook Rebellion comes to town demonstrating the need for more affordable textbooks.
Calling interested volunteers to Get Involved with MaryPIRG!
Our zombie volunteers exemplify what happens to textbooks after they 'die' at the end of the semester.
The Food Recovery Network donates another carload of food to the hungry in DC.
Follow the Vote Goat to vote during the city council election.
MaryPIRG students collect canned food for the Canpaign at UMD.
Gravestone from the Textbooks Graveyard showing the need for more affordable textbook options.