UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION POLICY COMMITTEE
Appendix

Resolution on Forming Textbook Subcommittee to the UEPC

WHEREAS the costs of academic textbooks have continued to increase above the rate of inflation over the past several years; and

WHEREAS students must pay these textbook costs in order to be properly prepared for course work; and

WHEREAS the Undergraduate Education Policy Committee of the SIUC Faculty Senate has been charged with investigating the costs, pricing structures and alternative supplying of academic textbooks; and

WHEREAS the Undergraduate Education Policy Committee has proposed a subcommittee composed of educators, students, and bookstore personnel to study the problem;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Faculty Senate approves the formation of a subcommittee whose term will end at the 2004-05 academic year to advise the UEPC on the textbook issues, chaired by Jim Allen, with members to be named by the chair.


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