Thanks for the news briefs.

I had a lengthy discussion with someone from the UFV student paper back in November. His intention was to write an article by Christmas, but I have yet to see anything appear.

I do hear from individual students now and again that there are students interested or planning to make more noise about textbook costs. The current student union president took ownership of the issue a few years ago, but it seems her plate has been well more than full since then.

Sadly, no dedicated activists have emerged otherwise. Some more vociferous student mobilisation would be fun to see here, and probably get a few more faculty knocking on my door.

-Martin

Martin Warkentin

University of the Fraser Valley

33844 King Road, Abbotsford, BC

Canada V2S 7M8

(604) 504-7441 Ext. 4460

From: Bcoel [mailto:bcoel-bounces@mail.bccampus.ca] On Behalf Of Karen Meijer-Kline
Sent: January-12-17 2:49 PM
To: 'Amanda Coolidge'; Caroline Daniels
Cc: bcoelsteering; bcoel
Subject: Re: [Bcoel] Textbookbroke campaigns

I’m not sure, but we’ll check it out.

From: Bcoel [mailto:bcoel-bounces@mail.bccampus.ca] On Behalf Of Amanda Coolidge
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2017 10:54 AM
To: Caroline Daniels <Caroline.Daniels@kpu.ca>
Cc: bcoel <bcoel@mail.bccampus.ca>; bcoelsteering <bcoelsteering@mail.bccampus.ca>
Subject: Re: [Bcoel] Textbookbroke campaigns

Yes please do send our way- was there any press on it?

From: "Caroline Daniels" <Caroline.Daniels@kpu.ca>
To: "Amanda Coolidge" <acoolidge@bccampus.ca>, "Debra Flewelling" <flewellingd@douglascollege.ca>
Cc: "bcoelsteering" <bcoelsteering@mail.bccampus.ca>, "bcoel" <bcoel@mail.bccampus.ca>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2017 10:47:39 AM
Subject: RE: Textbookbroke campaigns

Our students at KPU have something going too. Sadly I didn’t take a picture of it (I know – if you don’t get a photo it never happened!). I’m reaching out to the organizer to see if he got a photo. Nothing works better than students engaging students!

From: Bcoel [mailto:bcoel-bounces@mail.bccampus.ca] On Behalf Of Amanda Coolidge
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2017 8:24 AM
To: Flewelling, Debra <flewellingd@douglascollege.ca>
Cc: bcoelsteering@mail.bccampus.ca; bcoel@mail.bccampus.ca
Subject: Re: [Bcoel] [Bcoelsteering] Textbookbroke campaigns

Nice work!!!

From: "Flewelling, Debra" <flewellingd@douglascollege.ca>
To: bcoel@mail.bccampus.ca
Cc: bcoelsteering@mail.bccampus.ca
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 7:53:34 PM
Subject: [Bcoelsteering] Textbookbroke campaigns

Hello,

It is that time of semester when we hopefully see more attention brought to the high cost of textbooks. UVIC made the papers - http://www.saanichnews.com/news/410166795.html#.WHZqlZmgDuo.twitter

And here at Douglas, the Douglas College Student Union set up a table set in our concourse area (see attached picture). I took the picture at the end of the day but during the day I noticed they had a lot of traffic around the table.

Did anything happen at your institution that you would like to share?

Debra

Debra Flewelling

Open Education & Emerging Technologies Librarian

T 604.527.5190 F 604.527.5193

Debra.Flewelling@douglascollege.ca

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