As those of you who have been following this blog for awhile know, the two overriding themes have been the Global Text Project and IT systems foul-ups by the State of Colorado. The Global Text Project is focused on the cost of textbooks in developing economies where the problem is much more acute than it is in the US. We recently had some great publicity in the Chronicle of Higher Education. (If you go to the In the News page on the site, you'll find a link to the article. There's also a link on the November 18 post here, right below this post).
Still, the cost of textbooks in the US is of increasing concern to many students and some faculty. For examples of comments here in the past, please see posts dated October 18, 2007, September 27, 2007, September 24, 2007, and July 5, 2007 as examples. There are more. There's another article in the Denver Post this morning, entitled "Collegians' book, tuition concerns on same page" with Allison Sherry's byline. While there has been a lot of activity around this issue for quite awhile (e.g. maketextbooksaffordable), it looks like the issue is gathering some momentum.
So, with the new administration in the State of Colorado looking like they're getting serious about cleaning up the messes that arose during the previous administration and avoiding more messes in the future, I think I'll focus more on the Global text Project and related issues as well as "who knows what else" topics.
