Textbook Affordability at USF

Textbook affordability is a critical issue impacting students at USF, with costs rising significantly over the years. This project highlights the challenges faced by students due to escalating textbook prices and suggests strategies for USF to address the issue by increasing faculty awareness, assessing impacts, and incentivizing affordability initiatives.

• Textbook affordability
• USF
• Student impact
• Cost increases

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1. Understanding the Issues: Textbook Affordability at USF The USF Textbook Affordability Project, USF Libraries January 18, 2018

2. Rising Textbook Costs Cost Increases in One Decade! From 1977 to 2015, textbook prices have risen 3x the rate of inflation 1041% increase Textbooks +63%

3. Why Focus on Textbook Costs? Rules & Regulations HB 7019 BOG Regulation 8.003 USF Regulation 3.029 IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO! Costs & Barriers Cost +1,041% 1977-2015 48-66% Do not buy texts PBF Metric 3 Impacts Net Tuition per Degree

4. Focus on USF Percent of Full-Time First-Time Undergraduates Awarded Pell Grants USF vs. Florida Public Research Universities 60 Average Cost of Textbooks/Credit Hour 50 44 42 42 40 40 36 36 35 35 35 34 National average = $40.83 30 20 USF average = $46.15 10 0 AY 2010-2011 AY 2011-2012 AY 2012-2013 AY 2013-2014 AY 2014-2015 Peer Group Mean USF

5. Impact on Students Impact of Textbook Costs on Students 66.6% 70.0% 60.0% 47.6% 50.0% 45.5% 37.6% 40.0% 26.1% 30.0% 20.7% 19.8% 20.0% 10.0% 0.0% Take fewer courses Don't register for a specific course Drop a course Withdraw from a course Earn a poor grade because I could not afford to buy the textbook Fail a course because I could not buy the textbook Don't purchase the required textbook Source: 2016 Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey, Florida Virtual Campus

6. Resources from the USF Libraries to Help You Help Your Students VISIT

7. What Can USF do to Help? Increase faculty awareness Evaluate existing and create new practices to advance affordability Develop a framework for assessing textbook impact; listen to students about their experience with textbooks Develop incentives for faculty who drive textbook affordability Move beyond compliance and metrics to own the textbook affordability issue 7

8. Contact Us lib-tap@usf.edu Alex Neff | Program Planner & Analyst neffa@usf.edu | 813.974.4703 Rion Sabean | Web Content Administrator rsabean@usf.edu | 813.974.6248 TAP.USF.EDU 8