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Michael D. Chason |
IMMEDIATE MARCH 17, 2005
BOARD
OF REGENTS TO HOLD TEXTBOOK FORUM APRIL 6 AT ABAC
TIFTON – In response to a growing
national concern on the part of students, parents, college and university
administrators and elected officials over the price of college textbooks, the
University System of Georgia is holding a series of public forums on this
issue. The final forum will be held at
The Tifton forum will be
held from 10 a.m. until noon on April 6 at ABAC. The program will be held in Conference Room A
of the
“Our purpose in holding these forums is to
provide information that will help all interested parties understand the
various factors driving the cost of textbooks,” said Senior Vice Chancellor for
Academics and Fiscal Affairs Dr. Daniel
S. Papp. “We will utilize the
information gained from these forums to develop recommendations on future
textbook pricing that will be presented to the Board of Regents.”
Papp will provide the welcome and an
overview of the issues for the April 6 event.
The forum will include a panel representing students, the textbook
industry and university faculty. It will
be moderated by William Bowes, vice
chancellor of Fiscal Affairs for the University System.
Panelists will
include: Catrina Kennedy, a student and president of the Student Government
Association at ABAC; Tommye Miller,
director of university stores at Valdosta State University; J. Bruce Hildebrand, executive director for Higher Education of
the Association of American Publishers; and Dr. Bobbie Robinson, chair of the
Humanities Division at ABAC.
In addition to
presentations by the panelists and a general discussion, the program will
accommodate written questions from the audience, which will be directed to
panel members.
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