Student Organizing, Inc.
For Strategic Planning
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Amount$50,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/30/2019
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
Through its Student Public Interest Research Group program, Student Organizing, Inc., leads a nationwide effort to raise awareness of the high cost of textbooks and build demand for solutions, particularly open textbooks and other open educational resources (OER). Students will focus campus action on strategies to bring about greater market demand for institutional reforms that lead to faculty adoption of OER. This grant will support efforts to build research capacity within Student Organizing, Inc., to produce a stronger evidence base that, over time, will make the case for the benefits of OER for students.
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 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)
for promoting faculty adoption of open textbooks
For the past decade, through its Student Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) program, Student Organizing Inc. has led a nationwide effort to raise awareness of overpriced textbooks while building demand for solutions—most importantly, open textbooks and OER. The Student PIRGs would continue to work with students to catalyze campus action around OER; focus student energy on strategies to bring about market demand for campus and institutional reforms that lead to faculty adoption of OER, and promote the concept of a zero-textbook-cost degree. This work will drive adoption of OER in higher education to equalize access to education for all learners.
