Textbooks – The Tropolitan

Faculty take charge toward lowering textbook prices

January 25, 2018January 24, 2018 News

Rakshak Adhikari Staff Writer Bret Woods, an assistant professor of ethnomusicology, has used the library’s course reserve to provide textbook references for all his classes ever since he started teaching at Troy in 2012. When a textbook is put in reserve at the library, students can check it out for two hours to do their assignments. “I want to allow all students in my classes to have an equal platform for accessing the information in their reading assignments,” Woods said. “I don’t think that financial resources should play a role…

Textbook prices draw attention from university

September 1, 2016September 1, 2016 News

Abby Taylor Staff Writer At the faculty and staff convocation on Aug. 9, Chancellor Jack Hawkins Jr. said that, on average, students spend about $1,200 a year for textbooks. “I went over to the bookstore, and I went through all the texts that we require students to read,” Hawkins said. “I became curious about what was the most expensive textbook that we require at Troy University. “I went through the stacks, and I found a book that costs $432,” Hawkins said. “The title of that $432 textbook was ‘The Cornerstones…