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If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em (Kind of)

How to continue promoting textbook affordability while in an Inclusive Access program

Amanda Janke, Winthrop University

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Who am I?

University of North Carolina at Greensboro, May 2024

Winthrop University, August 2023

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, May-August 2023

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Background

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What is Inclusive Access? What are its effects?

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Inclusive Access’s Impact

Students typically lose access to Inclusive Access content after the course ends

Instructors’ freedom to choose the course materials that best meet their students’ needs is constrained

Less expensive is not the same thing as affordable

Retain, or Just Rent?

Support, or Stymied?

Inclusive, or Exclusive?

Source: https://inclusiveaccess.org/resources/myths-vs-facts

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Working �with �Inclusive �Access

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How do you continue to promote textbook affordability while in an Inclusive Access program?

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Help others understand what Inclusive Acces is!

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Use the bookstore’s resources!

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!

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Mercury

Venus

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A comprehensive guide

Mercury takes a little more than 58 days to complete its rotation, so try to imagine how long days must be there! Since the temperatures are so extreme, albeit not as extreme as on Venus, Mercury has been deemed to be non-habitable for humans

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and the smallest one in the entire Solar System. Contrary to popular belief, this planet's name has nothing to do with the liquid metal. Mercury was, instead, named after the famous Roman messenger god Mercurius

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Let faculty know how they can help students!

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Use the bookstore’s resources!�Pt. 2

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Interview Takeaways

  • Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, TX)
  • Coastal Carolina University (Conway, SC)
  • University of Central Florida (Orlando, FL)
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, AL)
  • UNC Greensboro (Greensboro, NC)
  • Florida International University (Miami, FL)
  • Winston-Salem State University

(Winston-Salem, NC)

  • University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, MS)

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One more thing…

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Scan me!

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Thank you!

Do you have any questions?

jankea@winthrop.edu

Ida Jane Dacus Library

Winthrop University

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