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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%"><font size="2"><span style="line-height:115%">Adelaide Clark is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and
Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen is the Interim Director of Libraries at Oregon Institute
of Technology. Please download and read their new article, “Sciences and
Technology Open Resources: A Collaborative Effort Between Libraries and Faculty,”
here: <a href="https://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/vol24/iss3/4/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/vol24/iss3/4/</a><span></span></span></font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%"><font size="2"><span style="line-height:115%">From their article, “College costs are rising. Students
who are paying more in tuition, more on housing, more </span><span>fees, may not have enough to cover textbooks</span>….
Open Oregon Educational Resources (2018) researched the changes open
educational <span>resources have had
on textbook affordability in community colleges in Oregon between </span><span>2015 and 2017. One comparison in the report
is the number of hours a student working </span><span>minimum
wage would need to work to afford course materials. In 2017, at a two-year co</span>llege
that was 176 hours of work. While similar data is not yet available for Oregon
four-year <span>universities, one
may assume it is near to double or more, topping 300 hours of work</span>.”
Please read on to learn about the herculean efforts librarians and professors
at Oregon Institute of Technology are making to reduce financial barriers to college
for their students.<span> </span>Please think about
how these efforts will benefit our society as a whole.<span> </span>More students will be able to attend college,
have access to career opportunities, and provide society with the technological
innovations we need to meet the challenges of the future. This is good work.<span></span></font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%"><font size="2"><span style="line-height:115%">Photo: Adelaide Clark, Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%"><font size="2">Thank you,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%"><font size="2">Charles Wood</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%"><font size="2">OLA Communications</font><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%"><font size="2"><span style="line-height:115%"><span></span></span></font></p><font size="2">
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