Why students need free textbooks on campus - Morgan Dobbins, FSU News

Student loan rates are continually growing. The average student loan debt for those leaving college is nearly $40,000. Devin Soper, Florida State University's scholarly communications librarian, and Jeff Phillips, FSU's instruction and learning services librarian, are advocating to increase open access textbooks and educational resources on campus. In a study on the high costs of textbooks and the negative impact it causes on student success, 21 percent of university students dropped a course, 15 percent withdrew from a course, 19 percent failed a coursed and 75 percent did not purchase the required textbook due to the costs of textbooks. This cost is not necessary, because the cost of commercial course materials has risen at 300 percent the rate of inflation since 1978. https://www.fsunews.com/story/opinion/2018/09/02/why-students-need-free-textbooks-campus/1180479002/