Academic 2-6-18

MEETING START TIME: 4:03

ATTENDANCE:

Committee: Chairman Temple, Vice-Chair Morabito, Senator Alquirtas, Senator Benedict, Senator Howard, Senator Leach, Senator Murray, Senator Needle, Senator Nelson, Senator Sardinha

Absent:

Non-Committee: Representative from the URI Bookstore

DISCUSSION:

  • URI BookStore
    • Watch-Survey
    • Previously participated → 1009 responses
      • Looking to do more
    • Prizes for Survey
      • $1000 nationally → last year it was given to a URI student
      • Locally: 6 $50 Bookstore gift cards
    • Survey will go from February 19th-26th
    • Advertising
      • Small fliers have gone out to advertise for it via the “box and carry” program
      • An email will be sent out to advertise
    • Questions range from:
      • Where do you shop?
      • How satisfied are you with all of the places that you shop at?
    • Looking for help on outreach
    • Data that stood out from previous survey
      • None that really stood out too much
      • No one was either satisfied or not satisfied with the way their shopping experience
      • Most expensive average textbook $130 and the average student is willing to spend about $134
    • Prices of books is determined mainly by the actual book, the bookstore does not have a lot of say in the prices
      • It in a way is the cause of the professors because if they require an expensive book then the bookstore has to sell it at an expensive price
      • It can also be determined by the Faculty Adoption list
        • If the adoption list by the faculty is submitted late it may cause the bookstore to buy the book with rushed shopping making the books more expensive
      • Affordability Ad Hoc committee is meeting soon
        • They have grant money to possibly be donated to the survey to boost incentive or possibly to the the bookstore to lower the cost of the books
      • Possibly asking faculty to give extra credit to take the survey:
        • Business management
        • Writing
        • Psychology
      • Changes are being made
        • Changed adoption form from the Faculty Watch-Survey
        • There has not been enough time to implement changes from the National Survey
      • Possibly having different ranges of time to rent books
    • Chairman Temple
      • Sent emails → awaiting response
    • Library
      • Mother’s Room
        • Rough plans are drawn
        • They are getting a quote Thursday
      • Daily Grind
        • They want to put in a window to see inside the Daily Grind and a laptop bar
      • Extra Money
        • CVS vending machine
        • New chairs for desks in library
      • Research Office located in the library

Extra:

MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: 5:00