Student Organizing, Inc.
For Promoting Faculty Adoption Of Open Textbooks
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Amount$210,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/17/2014
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
This renewal grant would help Student Organizing Inc. continue its work to reduce the rising costs of college textbooks by increasing student and faculty demand for open textbooks, a tangible and familiar form of OER. Student Organizing Inc. would continue to build faculty and student networks to accelerate and sustain OER adoption. It would also conduct and publicize research on the cost-saving impact of OER.
About the Grantee
Address
294 Washington St, Suite 500, Boston, MA, 02108, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for promoting faculty adoption of OER
Student Organizing, Inc. is a national, non-partisan, non-profit organization that hosts the nationally coordinated projects of the Student Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs). The Student PIRGs are a national network of campus-based student advocacy organizations working toward affordable higher education and other public interest issues. PIRG’s higher education program seeks to expand the mainstream adoption of open educational resources and open textbooks through grassroots, on-campus organizing and advocacy at the university, state, and federal policy level. This helps to ensure that college educators as well as students understand the benefits of OER and that educational systems are advancing policies that promote the mass adoption of those materials. (Substrategy: Sustainable Systems)
for promoting faculty adoption of OER
Student Organizing, Inc. is a national, non-partisan, non-profit organization that hosts the nationally coordinated projects of the Student PIRGs. The Student PIRGs are a network of campus-based student advocacy organizations working toward affordable higher education and other public interest issues. PIRG’s Higher Education program seeks to expand the mainstream adoption of OER and open textbooks through grassroots, on-campus organizing and advocacy at the university, state, and federal policy levels. This helps to ensure that college educators as well as students understand the benefits of open educational materials and that educational systems are advancing policies that promote the mass adoption of those materials. (Substrategy: Sustainable Systems)
for promoting faculty adoption of open textbooks and OER
Student Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) are a national network of campus-based student advocacy organizations working toward affordable higher education and other public interest issues. Student PIRG’s Affordable Higher Education program seeks to expand the mainstream adoption of OER and open textbooks through grassroots, on-campus organizing and advocacy at the university, state, and federal policy level. This work helps to ensure that college educators as well as students understand the benefits of open educational materials and that educational systems are advancing policies that promote the mass adoption of those materials. (Substrategy: Sustainable Systems)
