Hi!
The UVSS is currently ramping up to launch our 2016-2017 campaigns and we are very excited to launch #TextbookBroke – a campaign focussed on textbook affordability and the movement to adopt free open textbooks at colleges and universities in BC.
Textbook affordability has reached a crisis point – prices have risen four times the rate of inflation in the past decade, 64% of students don’t purchase a book at some point due to cost, and 23% of students regularly go without textbooks due to cost.
We’ve spent the summer lobbying profs and university staff to adopt open educational resources, as well as working in conjunction with student societies at UBC and SFU.
If you want to get a sense of the campaign and some of the stakeholders we’ve been working with, check this feature article on the BCcampus website.
We’ll see you out on campus soon and stay tuned because we’ll be running a social media contest where you can win $300 towards your textbooks!
Maxwell Nicholson
UVSS Director of Campaigns & Community Relations
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