Faculty save students money with open source books

The Adopt an Open Textbook Grant program was established to encourage faculty and instructors to switch from traditional textbooks to high-quality, free open textbooks. Grant awardees receive $1000 to support an instructor's transition to the open resource materials.

The real benefactors of the program are WMU students, who can save hundreds of dollars on textbooks and materials in a given course.

For instance, in January, faculty from the School of Social Work and the School of Interdisciplinary Health Programs received three $1000 grants from University Libraries. Based on the cost of traditional textbooks, those three grants translate to an estimated $165,885 in savings for 1075 CHHS students.