College students today face high costs in more than just tuition–increases in textbook prices have far exceeded the rate of inflation. This puts an unnecessary burden on students, and Trinity is looking for ways to ease that burden. You can learn more about the issue in this Tripod article, contributed by Matthew Boyle ’19. The Dean of Faculty and Information Services are sponsoring a pilot project for faculty to investigate available open resource textbooks which would be free or very low cost for students to use. With funding from the Dean’s Office, seven faculty have applied for and been given OER grants:
Harry Blaise, Engineering
Clayton Byers, Engineering
Stefanie Chambers, Political Science
Carol Clark, Economics
Jack Dougherty, Educational Studies
Troy Helming, Economics
Todd Ryan, Philosophy
We thank the Dean and these faculty for their support of this program, and we hope it will only be the start of more programs like it at Trinity in the future.