Maryland has essentially the same policy.
Diane
Diane L. Finley, Ph.D.
Professor , Department of Psychology
Program Chair, D47 - APA (Exercise and Sport Psychology)
Vice-President, Society for the Teaching of Psychology
2011 Program Chair, Eastern Psychological Assn
Certified Consultant. AASP
Prince George's Community College
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Largo MD 20774
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>>> [email protected] 08/04/10 3:07 PM >>>
In Florida this is driven by the Textbook Affordability Act, which produced
the Board of Governors guidelines on textbook adoption (8.003)
Among other things, these guidelines state the following:
(c) A determination by the course instructor or academic department offering
the course, before a textbook is adopted, of the extent to which a new
edition differs significantly and substantively from earlier versions and
the value of changing to a new edition.
These are the same guidelines that lead to the posting of the ISBN numbers
for all textbooks on a central university web site to enable students to
purchase the correct books from the least expensive source they can find.
I have a PDF of these guidelines (as well as an early draft of the act with
much of this language). Contact me off list if you'd like a copy of either.
Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D.
Director, Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
Associate Professor, Psychology
University of West Florida
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL 32514 * 5751
Phone: (850) 857-6355 or 473-7435
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CUTLA Web Site: http://uwf.edu/cutla/
Personal Web Pages: http://uwf.edu/cstanny/website/index.htm
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Bourgeois, Dr. Martin <[email protected]>wrote:
> In order to keep the cost of textbooks down, our administration is
> considering adoption of a policy that requires faculty to justify why we
> would change a text, either to a new edition or a different book. It's not
> clear to me who we would justify it to- the bookstore? The administration? A
> newly formed committee on textbook appropriateness? Needless to say, faculty
> are not behind this proposed change. I'm curious to hear a) whether other
> institutions have similar policies and b) how others on the list feel about
> this.
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