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Rachel Fleming joined UTC in 2017 as scholarly communications librarian.<\/p><\/div>\n

In just five years, more than $1 million has been kept in the pockets of students at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga by its Affordable Course Materials Initiative.<\/p>\n

The initiative was barely more than a good idea when Rachel Fleming joined UTC as scholarly communications librarian in 2017 and was charged with taking it forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat drew me to UTC was that affordability was part of the position, and I was looking for something where I knew the work that I do would make an impact for the good of students and this is very fulfilling to me,\u201d Fleming said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things librarians like to do is talk to all of the faculty and help them design what they need for their courses, and I love hearing from them about how we can do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the National Center for Education Statistics<\/a>, the annual cost of college textbooks and supplies averaged $1,226 per student in 2021. \u201cAffordable course materials,\u201d generally alternatives to printed or digital textbooks, have proven to help lower costs for students.<\/p>\n

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the development of digital and\/or online course materials in response to demand from online instruction and\u2014almost overnight\u2014doubled their inventory at UTC.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only did COVID really bring this to students who were having to continue their education from home and needing materials, a lot of people\u2019s eyes were opened to the real lives of students where expenses and money are big issues,\u201d Fleming said. \u201cFor a lot of students, textbooks can be an unexpected expense, especially to first-generation students.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think of someone coming to UTC who has worked really hard, maybe taken some community college courses and made good grades, gotten admitted here and then runs into all of these unanticipated expenses. Their experience is, \u2018I worked really hard to get here and to pay my tuition, and now you\u2019re telling me there\u2019s this additional $400 for books? It can be not only an unexpected cost, some students come from families who just don\u2019t have that kind of money, and it can mean making choices between living expenses and books.\u201d<\/p>\n

While textbook publisher \u201ce-version\u201d books are widely prevalent, they aren\u2019t necessarily a lower-cost option.<\/p>\n

Developing more affordable course materials for UTC students is the result of collaboration between Fleming and faculty who come for help designing and preparing materials that can replace textbooks in achieving course learning outcomes. In most cases, course materials costs are completely eliminated in revised courses.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really the faculty who are doing the work of adjusting their courses,\u201d Fleming said. \u201cWe\u2019ve worked on courses at all levels\u2014introductory to upper-division to graduate-level\u2014and I\u2019ve worked with faculty from all colleges. Even though it\u2019s been primarily the College of Arts and Sciences, I\u2019ve also worked with faculty from the Rollins College of Business, the College of Health, Education and Professional Studies, and even the College of Engineering and Computer Science.\u201d<\/p>\n

Faculty are also creating free materials with open access via the UTC Scholar platform<\/a> that is being shared worldwide. For instance, UTC Dalton Roberts Professor of Public Administration Chris Horne\u2019s \u201cA quick, free, somewhat easy-to-read introduction to empirical social science research methods<\/a>\u201d has been downloaded more than 5,800 times since 2018\u2014all for free\u2014by scholars in Asia, Australia, Africa and Europe.<\/p>\n

Fleming described UTC Scholar as the home of the University\u2019s research and creative works and publications, including honors theses, masters theses and doctoral dissertations<\/a>, conference proceedings such as from ReSEARCH Dialogues<\/a> and the annual River Cities Industrial-Organizational Psychology<\/a> conference at UTC, and the Modern Psychological Studies<\/em><\/a> journal produced by undergraduates and overseen by UC Foundation Professor of Psychology David Ross.<\/p>\n

Fleming has kept busy this summer assisting faculty with finding and reviewing materials for courses that will be revised for the upcoming 2022-2023 academic year.<\/p>\n

\u201cAffordable Course Materials is part of what we do as an institution to ensure an engaging and enlightening experience,\u201d Fleming said. \u201cIt\u2019s part of meeting our strategic, transformative learning goal of being good stewards of our resources and enabling good stewardship of our students\u2019 resources while also delivering really great learning experiences.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince 2020, there\u2019s been such a boom in Tennessee in interest and development of free materials for courses, and we really are a leader in this in the state and among the institutions setting the pace.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Affordable Course Materials initiative is unquestionably Fleming\u2019s favorite responsibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cFolks are looking at their course materials and asking, \u2018What if I taught it this way and what about these more engaging, active pedagogy processes could I use?\u2019 Fleming said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy portfolio does include other tasks, but if somebody contacts me about affordable materials, I\u2019ll literally throw whatever else I\u2019m doing off my desk. I can\u2019t wait to talk about what we can do to make their course materials more affordable and achieve their learning goals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In just five years, more than $1 million has been kept in the pockets of students at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga by its Affordable Course Materials Initiative.<\/p>\n

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