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crln-25793	White, Gary W.; Warneka, Mary E.	Affordable course content: A cross-unit collaboration to develop institution-wide strategies at the University of Maryland	2023	5	.pdf	application/pdf	2207	104	39	Shanna Jaggers et al. define affordable course materials to include licensed library materials, text- books, OER, and inclusive access commercial textbooks whereby course materials are made available to students by the first day of class for a flat rate that all students would pay.5 The group decided to take a very broad perspective and included additional learning sources such as coursepacks, instructor-created learning assets, and open source quizzes, data sets, and practice problems. The same study reported instances of students taking fewer courses, not registering for spe- cific courses, earning a poor grade, or dropping a course because of the cost of textbooks.1 This message of avoiding purchases or suffering undue hardship to buy course materials is echoed again and again throughout the nation: • 80% of students at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign report not buying textbooks or access codes due to cost.2 • 66% of students report avoid buying course materials due to cost, significant numbers report working extra hours, skipping meals, or selecting (or avoiding) courses based on course content costs.3 At the University of Maryland, we see evidence of this problem as well.	cache/crln-25793.pdf	txt/crln-25793.txt