{"id":5355,"date":"2016-03-03T11:14:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T16:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/?p=5355"},"modified":"2016-03-03T11:14:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T16:14:53","slug":"academic-2-17-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/academic-2-17-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic 2-17-2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MEETING START TIME: <\/strong>5:30 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>ATTENDANCE: <\/strong>Chairwoman Oliver<strong>, <\/strong>Vice-Chair Garcia, Senator Inkley, Senator Cordova, Senator Temple<strong> , <\/strong>Senator Porter, Chairwoman King, Senator Curtis<\/p>\n<p><strong>Absent: <\/strong>N\/A<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-Committee<\/strong>: Paul Whitney-URI Bookstore, Nataly Garcia-URI Bookstore<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>COMMITTEE DISCUSSION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\"><strong>URI Bookstore <\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Historically the bookstore has work with the AAC.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Adoption: faculty published their work and print using 4 publishers that controlled over 85% percent of all the book publishing industry.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Marketplace for books is changing faster than ever. It went to copyrights or edition every 5 years to event one per semester.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Timely Adoption: Course by course, faculty by faculty book \u201crequirement\u201d meaning changes.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">The industry is trying to recreate the materials to stay updated with the new generation that is engaging and purposely serving the students.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Affordability: Used books and keep cost in line. Funds are used for capital improvements on campus.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">New softwares that allows to see data and market trends to better buy and sell books at a cheaper price.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">We haven\u2019t promote the URI Bookstore mission and affordability services accordingly. they seek your help promoting this mission and help us design policy to best practices regarding textbook adoption.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">URI Bookstore student employment source and involvement.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">More competition from the national market.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Some faculty bypass the bookstore. Other faculty are understable of book selection and affordability.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Possible Action Items:\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Letter of support to faculty and staff to early adopted course materials to ensure affordability.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Survey on coursework affordability and access.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Student employment source and involvement.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Increase visibility, education and feel of ownership.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Senate Liaison for the Bookstore.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: <\/strong>\u00a06:15 pm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEETING START TIME: 5:30 pm ATTENDANCE: Chairwoman Oliver, Vice-Chair Garcia, Senator Inkley, Senator Cordova, Senator Temple , Senator Porter, Chairwoman King, Senator Curtis Absent: N\/A Non-Committee: Paul Whitney-URI Bookstore, Nataly Garcia-URI Bookstore &nbsp; COMMITTEE DISCUSSION: &nbsp; URI Bookstore Historically the bookstore has work with the AAC. 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