Spring 2017
Committee:
RAC
Whereas, the overwhelming prices of textbooks and other non-tuition costs have become a barrier to access in education; and
Whereas, the textbook industry has constantly increased the prices of textbooks through artificial demand due to a lack of serious incentive to maintain competitive prices as students are a “captive market”; and
Whereas, SB 1053 (2011-2012) cultivated momentum to promote the transition to colleges utilizing Open Educational Resources (OERs) by developing a statewide open source digital library of open source books and other resources that bear a creative commons attribution license (California. California State Legislature, 2011); and
Whereas, the lack of open educational resources currently available along with the necessary extensive content needed to support whole courses still leaves books from expensive textbook publishers as the predominant staple in the California Community College classroom; thus, let it be
Resolved, that the Student Senate for California Community Colleges advocates at the California State Legislature to secure funding for grants to incentivize works to be published as OERs for the next five years; and
Resolved, that the Student Senate for California Community Colleges advocate with the California Community College Chancellor’s Office and all other relevant system partners to institute more grant programs and initiatives for all professors and other authors to publish their academic textbooks, research, and other works as OERs; and
Resolved, that the Student Senate for California Community Colleges also work with the California Community College Chancellor’s Office and all other relevant system partners to develop modules, shell curriculums, and other supplementary content needed to carry a fully OER-exclusive class; and
Resolved, that the Student Senate for California Community Colleges advocates with California Community College Districts and faculty to affirm OERs and their curriculums to utilize in all course sections for the next five years.
Belliston, C. Jeffrey, "Open Educational Resources" (2009). All Faculty Publications. 134. http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/134
California. California State Legislature. California Legislative Information. SB-1053 Public Postsecondary Education: California Digital Open Source Library.(2011-2012). By Darrell Steinberg. Sacramento: California Legislative Information, 2012. Web. 20 Nov. 2016. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1053
Whereas, the textbook industry has constantly increased the prices of textbooks through artificial demand due to a lack of serious incentive to maintain competitive prices as students are a “captive market”; and
Whereas, SB 1053 (2011-2012) cultivated momentum to promote the transition to colleges utilizing Open Educational Resources (OERs) by developing a statewide open source digital library of open source books and other resources that bear a creative commons attribution license (California. California State Legislature, 2011); and
Whereas, the lack of open educational resources currently available along with the necessary extensive content needed to support whole courses still leaves books from expensive textbook publishers as the predominant staple in the California Community College classroom; thus, let it be
Resolved, that the Student Senate for California Community Colleges advocates at the California State Legislature to secure funding for grants to incentivize works to be published as OERs for the next five years; and
Resolved, that the Student Senate for California Community Colleges advocate with the California Community College Chancellor’s Office and all other relevant system partners to institute more grant programs and initiatives for all professors and other authors to publish their academic textbooks, research, and other works as OERs; and
Resolved, that the Student Senate for California Community Colleges also work with the California Community College Chancellor’s Office and all other relevant system partners to develop modules, shell curriculums, and other supplementary content needed to carry a fully OER-exclusive class; and
Resolved, that the Student Senate for California Community Colleges advocates with California Community College Districts and faculty to affirm OERs and their curriculums to utilize in all course sections for the next five years.
Belliston, C. Jeffrey, "Open Educational Resources" (2009). All Faculty Publications. 134. http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/134
California. California State Legislature. California Legislative Information. SB-1053 Public Postsecondary Education: California Digital Open Source Library.(2011-2012). By Darrell Steinberg. Sacramento: California Legislative Information, 2012. Web. 20 Nov. 2016. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1053
Status
Rise Against the Textbook Machine