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