Ohio Admin. Code 3362-2-18 - Textbook selection

(A) Purpose

Pursuant to state legislation including section 3345.025 of the Revised Code, it is the policy of Shawnee state university to respect the academic freedom of faculty in choosing textbooks and other instructional materials and to encourage efforts to minimize the cost of textbooks and other instructional materials. The applicable procedure shall provide guidance to faculty in implementing this policy by describing the responsibilities and actions faculty may take in selecting and assigning textbooks and other instructional materials.

(B) Academic freedom

It is the policy of Shawnee state university to respect the academic freedom of faculty to select textbooks and education materials they judge to be most appropriate for their courses and most effective for student learning. Specifically, the university believes faculty should have the right to choose curricular materials and pedagogical techniques within the reasonable boundaries of professional discretion subject to relevant standards of academic merit, teaching effectiveness, and consistency with catalogue course description.

(C) Reducing student cost

It is the policy of Shawnee state university to encourage or require efforts, as directed by the state legislature or Ohio department of higher education, to minimize the costs of textbooks and other instructional materials for students. Such efforts may include but are not limited to the following:

(1) High quality, open-access sources.

(2) Inclusive-access programs in which students choose to pay a course fee that includes access to below-market price instructional materials available to students at the beginning of a course. Such programs must comply with United States department of education regulations for the use of title IV funds.

(3) An auto adoption procedure, as discussed in paragraph (D) of this policy.

(D) Auto adoption requirement

(1) To the maximum extent reasonably practical, faculty members will disclose required and recommended textbooks to students not later than the first date of course registration for the semester in which the textbooks will be used.

(2) In cases in which a faculty member does not disclose required and recommended textbooks to students by the date set forth in this paragraph, the faculty member will be deemed to have selected identical materials, including the same title and the same edition, from the prior semester in which the course was offered.

(D)(E) Scope

This policy applies to all full-time and part-time undergraduate and graduate course faculty, including instructors.

Notes

Ohio Admin. Code 3362-2-18

Effective: 7/17/2022
Promulgated Under: 111.15
Statutory Authority: 111.15
Rule Amplifies: 3362.03
Prior Effective Dates: 06/27/2019, 07/17/2022