Wednesday, August 24, 2011
7 out of 10 Students Skip Buying Texts Due to Costs
I read stories like this and I'm very glad that the school I'm going back to in a couple weeks has a text rental program. I think the most I've ever dropped on books in one semester was about $120, which is apparently the cost of just one "normal" text book, and the worst of which was a self published professor who infamously changed it every semester, and charged $80 for something that looked like it came from the copy center at Staples.
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Don't forget the VHS tape that came with the book. We. Were supposed to watch it before every lecture. Yeah, sure. That particular professor also required us to buy 8 textbooks and "novels" (they were really just pieces of paper his friends printed) for his reasoning and criticism class. I have some reasons for critizing him...
He had upgraded to a DVD by the time I was in his class (half the production costs, twice the cost to the students!) I understand there were quite mixed emotions when he died last year.
For those not familiar with UWSP, the class in question was Comm 101, a class every student is required to take simply to graduate. I think there was a motion from student gov't to do something about it every year too, and then they remembered they were student gov't, and nobody cared.
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