OER Faculty Stipends Program Final Report 2022-2023

In March 2022, the library received $50,000 in CARES Act funding (later increased to $65,000) to develop a stipend program to support faculty professional development in the area of open educational resources as well as to fund faculty to eliminate the commercial textbook in a class in favor of adopting, adapting, or creating open educational resources. When the program wrapped up in April 2023, $57,500 had been disbursed to 44 faculty, and the textbooks in 17 courses had been eliminated, resulting in student savings of over $90,000 per semester.