Midwestern Higher Education Compact
Midwestern Higher Education Compact
MHEC is pleased to announce a new report in the college affordability policy series, College Textbook Affordability: Landscape, Evidence, and Policy Directions. Dr. Shanna Smith Jaggars, The Ohio State University, and her co-authors review various textbook options with a particular focus on Open Educational Resources (OER) and Inclusive Access models.
College Textbook Affordability: Landscape, Evidence, and Policy Directions
For decades, textbook price increases have outpaced the rise in other educational expenses. Prices have increased by almost 190% since 2006, and undergraduate students now budget over $1,200 for materials each academic year. Lower-income community college students are particularly affected, with textbook costs accounting for 80% of their total college attendance expenditures. Many commercial textbook publishers have shifted their focus to digital textbooks or online supplemental materials, while maintaining high prices and highly-restrictive terms of use.
Publications
Report: Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC)
College Textbook Affordability: Landscape, Evidence, and Policy Directions
Author: Shanna Smith Jaggars and Marcos D. Rivera, The Ohio State University and Briana Akani, University Of Michigan"
Year: 2019 - Format: PDF
National and Regional
- Bay View Analytics
- Cengage
- Library Journal
- Midwestern Higher Education Compact
- Open Textbook Alliance
- PIRG
State Level
Institutions
- Bentley University
- Gettysburg College
- Old Dominion University
- Randolph College
- SUNY Oneonta
- University of Hawaii at Manoa
- William & Mary