Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3359 - University of Akron › Chapter 3359-20 - Mission, Goals and Faculty Policies › Section 3359-20-05.3 - Textbooks, teaching aids, supplies, offices, and classrooms

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Textbook
			 selection.
(1) Although selection of
			 textbooks is the prerogative of the instructor(s) and subject to departmental
			 policies, faculty members must keep in mind their responsibilities to students
			 in choosing textbooks. Textbooks should be selected carefully, and cost should
			 be kept as low as possible 
									while maintaining quality
			 education. No textbook should be required by an instructor for any class if it
			 is to be used only for occasional consultation. Faculty should remember that
			 requiring the purchase of a textbook places an obligation upon them to ensure
			 that that text is an integral and extensively used part of the
			 course.
(2) Changes of textbooks
			 should be made only for sound pedagogical reasons. Normally textbooks should be
			 retained by an instructor for at least one year. Last minute changes in book
			 orders should be avoided, since such alterations are inconsiderate
			 of both students and those responsible for the ordering and stocking of course
			 materials.
(3)
									Faculty members may opt into or opt out of the
			 following textbook auto-adoption policy, with allowance to include only
			 specified courses while excluding others. In the event that a faculty member
			 has opted into the textbook auto-adoption policy and has not identified a
			 textbook and other teaching materials prior to the first day of class
			 registration, the university bookstore may assume that the faculty member will
			 use the same textbook (including edition and format) and other materials they
			 had used the last time they taught the course if the following three conditions
			 are met:
(a)
										The
			 individual faculty member (or, for team taught courses, a specific team of
			 faculty) who has been identified to teach a course in an upcoming semester has
			 taught the course within the past two academic years;
(b)
										The university
			 bookstore references this policy and makes at least one attempt to notify the
			 faculty member (by both email and campus mail at least two weeks prior to the
			 first day of class registration) of its intent to assume they will use the same
			 textbook (including edition and format) and other materials they had used the
			 last time they taught the course; and
(c)
										The university
			 bookstore references this policy and makes at least one attempt to notify the
			 faculty member (by both email and campus mail within one week of making that
			 assumption) that it has assumed that they will use the same textbook (including
			 edition and format) and other materials they had used the last time they taught
			 the course.
In the event that a faculty member has
				not been identified when students are first able to register for a course, the
				university bookstore may also assume that a subsequently identified faculty
				member will use the same textbook (including edition and format) and other
				materials they had used the last time they taught the course after the adoption
				deadline if the first and third conditions are met and it has made at least one
				attempt to notify the faculty member of its intent to do so at least two weeks
				prior to making the assumption.