{"id":792,"date":"2018-03-01T15:14:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T21:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/?p=792"},"modified":"2018-03-01T15:14:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T21:14:58","slug":"alternative-textbook-initiative-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2018\/03\/01\/alternative-textbook-initiative-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Textbook Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Provost, the ACU Library faculty and staff, and the University Library Committee share a concern about textbook affordability and its impact on student success, while recognizing that it is the prerogative of faculty to select textbooks that are high quality and most appropriate for a course. Through this one-time grant funding for courses offered in fall 2018, the Provost\u2019s Office is supporting selected faculty to identify and utilize Open Access textbooks as a replacement for commercially published textbooks. \u00a0Competitive grants of $1,000 are available for full-time teaching faculty to support changes to the existing courses incorporating Open Access textbooks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An informational workshop about the Alternative Textbook Initiative will be held on <\/span><b>February 27, noon &#8211; 1 p.m. in the ACU Innovation Foundry<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, located on the third floor of the Brown Library.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The deadline to submit proposal is <\/span><b>Friday, March 9, 2018<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (11:59 p.m.) and notification of award will be by Thursday, March 15, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Further information about this grant and how to apply can be found on the ACU Innovation Foundry website: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/acu.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=112f33c6039c1e5fe7d569800&amp;id=db04cdf46e&amp;e=293d5ad141\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alternative Textbook Initiative .<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Provost, the ACU Library faculty and staff, and the University Library Committee share a concern about textbook affordability and its impact on student success, while recognizing that it is the prerogative of faculty to select textbooks that are high quality and most appropriate for a course. Through this one-time grant funding for courses offered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}