System Office, California Community Colleges
Strategic Plan Action Planning Group for A2: Textbook Summit (Archive*)
November 30, 2007
Chabot College

• Welcome and Introduction (view archive - length 4:00)
  Linda Michalowski - call to order
  Dr. Robert Carlson, President, Chabot College - Welcome
  Dr. Joel Kinnamon, Chancellor, Chabot-Las Positas CCD - Welcome
  
  
  
• Purpose and Duration of Group (view archive - length 2:42)
  Linda Michalowski - Relationship of textbooks to Strategic Plan, deliverable for presentation at March BOG meeting.
  
  
  
• Overview of Significant Issues Identified in Recent Studies related to Textbook Costs (view archive - length 48:24)
  Debra Sheldon - Overview of issues identified in Federal reports
  Don Newton - Broken Market Presentation
  (view PowerPoint from Debra Sheldon and Don Newton)
  Ray Murillo - CSU Textbook Affordability Report
  Dan Crump - Academic Senate Textbook Report
  Nicole Allen and Danny Katz - CalPIRG Reports (view PowerPoint)
  
  
  
• Overview of Practices and Initiatives that Can Reduce Textbook Costs (view archive - length 1:14:15)
  • Bookstore Practices and Initiatives
    Don Newton - AB2477 and other items
    Jack Lemley
    Kathleen Kaser
    (view PowerPoint from Don Newton, Jack Lemley and Kathleen Kaser)
    Mary Perry - Follet Higher Education Group leased stores
  • Publisher and Used Textbook Assn. Practices and Initiatives
    Brian Collins, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
    Mike Kelly - Used Textbook Association (view PowerPoint)
    
    
    
• Overview of Existing Practices an Initiatives that Reduce or May Reduce Textbook Costs (continued) (view archive - length 2:00:03)
  
• Student-led Practices and Initiatives
  Troy Carter, Student Senate Resolutions
  Alma De Castro, Southwest College Student textbook Rental Program (view PowerPoint from Alma De Castro)
• Faculty-led Practices and Initiatives
  Greg Granderson - Academic Senate Taskforce on Textbooks
  Eunice Clark - California Assn. of College Stores and work with Academic Senate Taskforce (view text of presentation)
• Technology-based Practices and Initiatives
  Hal Plotkin - Open Educational Resources including AB 577 (Ruskin)
  Tim Calhoon - Joint CCC-CSU Digital Market Place (view PowerPoint)
• Other Practices and Initiatives
  • Library Initiatives
    Jim Matthews - Library Reserve Collections
    Dan Crump - Other library initiatives
  • Legislative Initiatives:
    Satinder Malhi - SB 832 (Corbett), AB 1548 (Solario)
    Don Newton - Federal College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 (HR 4137) (view PowerPoint from Don Newton)
    Joint Legislative Audit Committee approval of audit on the Cost of Textbooks in Higher Education
    Debra Sheldon
  • Others
  
  

• Next Steps (view archive - length 36:58)
  • What process should be used to develop strategies for
    • What colleges can do locally and what things should be addressed first?
    • What the System Office can do to support college efforts? What things should be done first?
    • What the System Office and the BOG can do to work with the Legislature and the Administration?
  • Possible deliverables:
    • Plans to collaborate with various CCC associations and stakeholders:
    • Plans to Disseminate Best Practices, including Professional Development, Conferences?
    • Suggestions for BOG polices?
    • Suggestions for Legislative agendas?
    • Suggestions for budget proposals or seeking foundation funding?
    • Other

• ACSFA Turn the Page Textbook Study
• CCC Academic Senate Textbook Book Issues 2005
• CSU Textbook Taskforce Report
• GAO Textbook Report
• Koch Textbook Report
• Mcelroy paper May 2007
• PIRG1 Textbooks for the 21st Century
• PIRG2 Required Reading
• PIRG3 Exposing the Textbook Industry