The one particular clear policy provision we have at the U of U regarding selection of textbooks is a provision that prevents faculty from personally financially gaining by choosing for their courses a book which will result in the faculty member, as book author, earning royalties from the sale of the book to students. The provision basically requires the faculty member in such cases to donate to a charity any royalties they receive as a result of assigning students to purchase that particular book-- so that personal financial gain is eliminated as a motivation for choosing one book rather than another as required reading for the course. This is incorporated within our overall Faculty Code, http://regulations.utah.edu/academics/6-316.php Code of Faculty Rights and Responsibilities. Section 4- B-10 Duties to Students.
We also have a less directly related provision-governing the use/disposal of books that publishers send to our faculty as 'review copy' books. The publishers send 'free' books to faculty hoping that the faculty member will adopt that book as a course required reading. Our policy provision prohibits the faculty member from later selling that sample book to bookbuyers and pocketing the sale price. The provision treats such sample copies of books as being the property of the University, not the personal/ private property of the individual faculty member to whom it has been sent. That provision is here: http://regulations.utah.edu/academics/6-318.php Acquisition and Control of Non-Library Books. ## Robert Flores, Professor of Law, SJ Quinney College of Law; Special Assistant for Faculty Policy-- Associate V.P. Academic Affairs, University of Utah. Direct 801-581-5881 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ## From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wheeler, Susan - wheel2sl Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 1:23 PM To: 'Institutional policy-related discussions' Subject: RE: [acupa-l] Faculty Book Policies Here is the policy at James Madison University: http://www.jmu.edu/JMUpolicy/2110.shtml Susan L. Wheeler University Counsel James Madison University MSC 7614 91 Alumnae Drive Harrisonburg, VA 22807 540-568-3727 540-568-3400 (fax) [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of President Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 2:47 PM To: 'Institutional policy-related discussions' Subject: [acupa-l] Faculty Book Policies Good Day Everyone, I hope you are warming up across the country. Does anyone have a policy or policies related to textbook process in terms of the following? Textbook cycles Textbook rental Faculty Selecting Textbooks and etc.... Thanks, jdj "The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and change amid order" Rosabeth Moss Kanter Johnny D. Jones, EdD, PhD [cid:[email protected]] President 601 E. College Drive Winnebago, Nebraska 68071 PHONE: 402-878-2380 WEBSITE: www.littlepriest.edu<http://www.littlepriest.edu> EMAIL: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> P Please don't print this e-mail unless it is necessary This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by email if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this email from your system. ATTN: Please be aware that when you respond to an ACUPA-L e-mail, the reply will be distributed to the ENTIRE e-listing of members. If you do NOT want to send an e-mail to everyone, please reply directly to the individual who initiated the query (their e-mail address appears in the "From" line of their original e-mail). If you wish to remove yourself from the ACUPA e-mail list, please go to this web address and fill out the form. We will remove you from the list within 24 hours during normal business hours. http://www.acupa.org/MembershipForm_Discontinue.html ATTN: Please be aware that when you respond to an ACUPA-L e-mail, the reply will be distributed to the ENTIRE e-listing of members. If you do NOT want to send an e-mail to everyone, please reply directly to the individual who initiated the query (their e-mail address appears in the "From" line of their original e-mail). If you wish to remove yourself from the ACUPA e-mail list, please go to this web address and fill out the form. We will remove you from the list within 24 hours during normal business hours. http://www.acupa.org/MembershipForm_Discontinue.html
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