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Pell Grant increases, but will tuition rise?
DKS Editors
Issue date: 8/13/08 Section: Opinion
Textbook publishers will now have to report more information about prices and editions to faculty members. This may cause understanding faculty members to think twice about assigning textbooks that cost a few hundred dollars. Colleges will also have to provide advance information in class schedules about required textbooks including the ISBN number and retail price or the author, title, publisher and copyright date if that number is not available. The bill also requires publishers to provide prices on different textbook options such as "bundled" versus "unbundled" options or unbound or paperback versions. We think this is a great idea because it will help students and faculty make smarter decisions for cost-effective textbook shopping and deal with rising textbook costs.
We think this bill contains mostly good news for students, but it doesn't change the fact that many students will still be in debt coming out of college.
The above editorial is the consensus opinion of the Summer Kent Stater editorial board, whose members are listed to the left.
We think this bill contains mostly good news for students, but it doesn't change the fact that many students will still be in debt coming out of college.
The above editorial is the consensus opinion of the Summer Kent Stater editorial board, whose members are listed to the left.
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