Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 52.64
Liaison Patrice Langevin
Submission Date March 6, 2020

STARS v2.2

Pitzer College
IN-41: Textbook Affordability

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.50 Milan Stijepovic
Asst Director of Sustainability
Facilities
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Does the institution host a peer-to-peer textbook exchange program, textbook lending library, or alternate textbook project?:
Yes

A brief description of the textbook exchange program, textbook lending library, or alternate textbook project:
The Reroom project that is one of our community based programs allows students to donate their gently used books where we in turn sell them the following semester for pennies on the dollar to students in need. Also our Office of Student Affairs has a lending library where many of our donated books find their home and students can borrow books for a Semester free of charge.

Does the institution provide incentives for academic staff that explicitly encourage the authorship, peer review, and/or adoption of open access textbooks?:
No

A brief description of the incentives to encourage the authorship, peer review, and/or adoption of open access textbooks:
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If yes to either of the above, provide:

Website URL where information about the textbook affordability incentives is available:

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