New Instructional Material Policy

With the passage of HB 2103, UCO has adopted a new instructional materials policy. The policy contains two key provisions of interest to faculty members. In order to inform faculty of this new policy, these two sections are reproduced below. The full policy can be found here.

Section 2 states:

"2. University faculty and staff members shall consider the least costly practices in assigning instructional material for a course as described in §3241.2 of Title 70."

Then section 5 states:

"5.  No employee or department at University shall demand or receive any payment, loan, subscription, advance, deposit of money, services or anything, present or promised, as an inducement for requiring students enrolled at University to purchase specific textbooks or instructional material required for coursework or instruction.  An employee or department may receive:

a.  sample copies of textbooks or instructional material, instructor copies of textbooks or instructional material, or other instructional material, that are not to be sold by faculty, staff or contracted provider bookstores.

b.  royalties or other compensation from sales of textbooks or instructional material that may include the writing or work of the employee,

c. honoraria for academic peer review of instructional material,

d.  honoraria for training in the use of the instructional material and technologies."

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