08/08/2023
Rutgers University Libraries have recently concluded the seventh year of the Open and Affordable Textbooks (OAT) Program and we are delighted to report that the 2023 awards will lower textbook costs for an estimated 3,276 Rutgers students and provide an estimated savings of $257,621. This means that the OAT Program has, in its first eight years, saved an estimated 44,954 students over $6.5 million!
This year we are delighted to congratulate the following Camden faculty on receiving OAT awards.
Craig Agule – Philosophy & Religion
Georgia Arbuckle-Keil – Chemistry
Paula Carabell – Visual and Performing Arts
Brian Corbett – Biology
Noha Emara – Economics
Sara Leshen-Gross – Mathematical Sciences
Greg Sayler – Philosophy & Religion
Jillian Sayre – English
Trish Suplee – Nursing
Collectively, their projects will reduce textbook costs for an estimated 529 students, saving approximately $71,746. These projects also bring the total saved in Camden to approximately $980,000 since the program’s inception.
Additionally, in 2021 OAT established an Authorship Award. Recipients will develop, create, and write a completely new Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook, along with any relevant supplemental materials. Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. They may be downloaded, edited, and distributed at no cost. Awardees will make their textbook free to use with a Creative Commons license and will provide access to it through an open repository, such as Rutgers SOAR. During this cycle, one Camden faculty received this award.
Rachel Derr – Nursing
Thank you to each awardee for your creative and impactful ideas.
For more detailed information about their projects and those of all the 2023 OAT awardees across the university, please click here:
https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/teaching-support/open-and-affordable-textbooks-program/previous-oat-awards/oat-awards-spring-2023
