Changes

a) All students can use this program

d) This program has the books used in classes with large enrollments

The majority of the books in this program were purchased through money retrieved by the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 College Council Treasurers. In the Fall, the student body voted in an all-campus referendum to allocate $17,500 of that retrieved money to a 1914 Library program capable of benefiting all students on campus (the campus voted to allocate the other half of the money to ACE concerts). Working within that mandate, CC held several discussions and worked with interested parties to imagine, design and implement this new program. Once CC settled upon this use of the money, it presented it to members of the administration and received generous donations from the Dean's Office and the Office of the Vice President for Strategic Planning and Institutional Diversity. Eager to maximize the effectiveness of this program and recognizing that the textbooks required for a given class change over time, CC decided to allocate the funds dedicated to this program over two periods. Thus, half of the money allocated from CC to this program was spent to purchase books now and the other half will be spent in either one year or two years (the exact date will be determined by future College Councils). Since the money allocated from the offices listed above was given for this fiscal year, all of that money was spent in this period. Thus, approximately $9,500 has been spent on this program to date and the remaining $8,750 is being held in reserve to fund the second phase of the program.

This and the next stage of the program are trial runs. From these trials to take place over the next few years, the school and future College Councils will be able to determine whether or not the program is effective and worth the cost. If it proves to be an effective program, we hope future generations of College Councils and administrators will continue and expand it.