A Report on the Feasibility of Textbook Rental - IBHE

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years, reduces the amount of paper needed to print additional textbooks. Furthermore, fewercopies of textbooks printed may lead to fewer copies in landfills after they are no longer of value.Limitations of Rental ProgramsWhile there are many benefits to textbook rental programs, such programs come withsignificant limitations as well. The following limitations were identified by the institutions thatresponded to the IBHE survey are the following:Annotating. Students participating in rental programs are generally prohibited fromannotating textbooks. Students who choose to annotate their textbooks are usually required topurchase the textbooks at the end of the semester while still being required to pay the mandatoryfee.Delivery and Retrieval. Institutions with off-campus locations may be negativelyimpacted by textbook rental programs. Logistics and resources may be difficult and limited in thedelivery and retrieval of textbooks. This is especially true for community colleges that may haveseveral locations spread over a large geographical area.Faculty Concerns About Adoption Periods. Under a textbook rental program, facultymembers are required to adopt a textbook for three to five years. The National Association ofCollege Stores indicates that textbook rental programs work best when there is low facultyturnover and when there is willingness of faculty to stay with the same texts for a period of time.The faculty senate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has voted to opposetextbook rental because of “its potential to limit their academic freedom and ability to innovate.”In its response to the IBHE survey, the University noted:…faculty have spoken clearly and forcefully that requiring them to use thesame textbook for a three year period would greatly limit their ability to keeptheir courses current and fresh. For example, a world politics book selectedin August of 2001 would have been immediately out of date after September11th. And the same is true in biology, chemistry, medicine, etc. where newdiscoveries change the way we view the world every day. Requiring facultyto teach from a static text for at least three years as the world changes aroundthem is antithetical to higher education.According to several responses to the IBHE survey, textbook rental programs maybecome bargaining issues at unionized institutions. Since some faculty members are hired asadjuncts or at the last minute, they would have no input in the selection of the adopted textbook.Faculty would also have to decide whether they would require students to use accesscodes for supplemental materials. Access codes allow students to access course materialselectronically. In some cases, publishers may not sell access codes separately from newtextbooks. Consequently, students would be required to purchase access codes in addition topaying mandatory rental fees.-26-
CURRENT ILLINOIS TEXTBOOK RENTAL PROGRAMSFive public higher education institutions in Illinois offer textbook rental programs. Theseinstitutions are: Eastern Illinois University, Frontier Community College, Lake Land College,Rend Lake College, and Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville.With the exceptions of Frontier Community College and Rend Lake College, currenttextbook rental programs at Illinois public institutions have been in existence since the inceptionof the institutions. Frontier Community College began its program in 1981, and Rend LakeCollege began its program in the fall of 1998. Fall 2005 full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollment atthese five institutions ranged from 591 (Frontier Community College) to 10,753 (Eastern IllinoisUniversity). Eastern Illinois University, Frontier Community College, Lake Land College, andSouthern Illinois University–Edwardsville charge a mandatory rental fee to students based oncredit hours. Rental fees for academic year 2005 ranged from $6.45 per credit hour (Lake LandCollege) to $10 per credit hour (Frontier Community College). A $28 fee per book plus a $20deposit per book is charged to students at Rend Lake College. Although rental terms vary amongthe four institutions, penalties for actions such as highlighting and late returns are common to allprograms.Textbook rental programs are housed in the bookstore at Lake Land College and RendLake College, whereas separate facilities are used at Eastern Illinois University and SouthernIllinois University–Edwardsville. Students are allowed to purchase textbooks under all programs;however, there are varying guidelines among the programs. At SIU-Edwardsville, nursingstudents are required to purchase their nursing textbooks. Eastern Illinois University has a twoyearadoption cycle unless the department chairperson and the director of textbook rental servicesapprove a different cycle for a particular course. The remaining programs have a three-yearadoption cycle unless by an exception. In addition to a minimum adoption cycle, Lake LandCollege has a five-year maximum adoption cycle unless by exception.The chart on the following page demonstrates the similarities and differences among fiveIllinois textbook rental programs.-27-
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