Alamo Colleges will email students before the start of classes and ask them to choose either a physical or digital copy of textbooks and instructional materials, to be paid for by $17 million in federal grant funding. Thousands of students at all five Alamo Colleges will start the new year with a little more money in their pockets thanks to a $17 million investment in a free textbook rental program. It will start during the spring semester and run through the summer of 2022. But even students enrolled for the current “wintermester” — three-week courses taught online during the holidays — will have free access to textbooks through a soft launch.
https://www.govtech.com/education/higher-ed/san-antonio-colleges-to-loan-digital-textbooks-for-free
