Documentation of the processes developed for the deployment and sustainability of AL$ commercial programs. Information on Bookstore and Commercial Service contacts, State and Federal Legislation, Accessibility, and Vendor contact. (updated April 2017)
- ACCESSIBILITY
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AL$ Featured Partners' VPATs
AL$ featured partners have submitted a VPAT (voluntary product accessibility template) with Academic Technologies and have been reviewed by CSU Center for Accessible Media. Each partner is reviewed for compliance and proactive planning. They have submitted qualifications and parameters for provision on campuses and partnering with bookstores.
Our goal is to help you choose the best available materials for your students, including those with disabilities, that will help them reach the desired outcomes most successfully.
AL$ efforts support Section 508, in that instructional materials developed or implemented must be accessible to all students, regardless of disability. However there may be times where you should collaborate with your campus Disability Support Services to ensure your materials are accessible and available in a timely manner.
- ACCOUNTING
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As new pilots and programs are developed, tested, and/or deployed, generic accounting templates for campus bookstores and collaborating campus departments are compiled. For a copy of any generic accounting template, please contact the CSU bookstore liaison by email. Sehrhorn@calstate.edu
- BOOKSTORES
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A. Bookstore Advisory Team was established in 2012 with input invited from 23 campus bookstores. The committee meets once annually in person during fall term and via phone/email as needed for reviews, recommendations, and other issues. It is comprised of bookstore directors, course materials managers, at least one regional manager. The 2017-2018 committee includes: Kathy Brown, Sarah Foisy, Dusty Guthier, Steve Higgenbotham, Jesse Nelson, Sabrina Pound, Pam Parsons and Russell Markman. Qualifications include quick email response to questions, availability to attend annual meeting, and will be subject to balance the committee with contract store companies and independent stores.
B. Affordable Learning Solutions will host an annual meeting for all bookstore directors, course materials managers, and regional managers annually and it will be held in two locations (one northern California and one southern California) in spring.
Annual Meetings are held in the northern and southern regions. These meetings are duplicates and all store directors, course materials managers, and regional reps are encouraged to attend one of them.
- FACULTY
- LEGISLATION
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AB 960 Brough, Sales and use taxes: exemptions: textbooks.
SB 727 Galgiani, Instructional materials nnovative pricing.
SB 1359 Medina, Course materials.
AB 798 Bonilla, Textbook Affordability Act of 2015.
SB 1052 Steinberg, Open Education Resource Council.
SB 1053 Steinberg, Cool4ed California Digital Open Source Library
AB 317 Soloria, Textbook Affordability.
AB 1548 Solorio, College Textbook Transparency Act.
AB 2471 Lara, e-Textbooks Transparency and Fairness.
AB 2477 Liu, Production and pricing of college textbooks.
SB 48 Alquist, Electronic Alternative.
SB 216 Liu, Posted List of textbooks and prices.
SB 386 Runner, Reducing prices, justification for new adoption.
SB 388 Calderon, Edition and Content.
SB 1328 DeLeon, Format and adoption search engine.
Sales Tax and Use Law, Unbundled Components
SB 850 Zero Degree Programs, California Community Colleges Related http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB850
- CONTACT LISTS
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CSU Bookstore Directors:
The following list identifies the person with overall responsibility for the CSU campus bookstore. Titles, breadth of responsibilities and line-of-reporting are NOT uniform on the campuses. Also, stores are either leased (Follett or B&N=Barnes and Noble) or self-operated by the auxiliary/foundation (A=self op.)
Campus Contact E-Mail Address Phone Bakersfield (F) (Schuckman) Richard Salcedo 1250mgr@fheg.follett.com 661-654-2273 Channel Islands (F) (Schuckman) Kathy Willmont 0591mgr@follett.com 805-437-2668 Chico (A) (Parsons) Sarah Foisy 1390mgr@follett.com 530-898-5222 Dominguez Hills (F) (Schuckman) Rick Dorsey 0886mgr@follet.com 310-243-3828 East Bay (F) (Kiryakakis) Jaime Scobel 1106mgr@fheg.follett.com 510-885-2726 Fresno (A) Curt Parkinson cparkinson@csufresno.edu 559-278-4251 Fullerton (A) Kim Ball kball@fullerton.edu 657-278-3418 Humboldt (F) (Russell) Dominque Johnson 1268mgr@follett.com 707-826-5833 Long Beach (A) Jared Ceja jared.ceja@csulb.edu 562-985-4003 Los Angeles (B&N) (Delmuro) Elaine Reed sm670@bncollege.com 323-343-5392 Cal Maritime Academy (F) (Parsons) Irene Tjokro 0766mgr@fheg.follett.com 707-654-1186 Monterey Bay (F) (Parsons) Josee Gendron jgendron@follett.com 831- 582-5262 Northridge (F) (Schuckman) Amy Berger aberger@fheg.follett.com 818-677-2932 Pomona (A) Clint Aase craase@cpp.edu 909-869-3762 Sacramento (F) (Parsons) James Ontiveros 0037mgr@follett.com 916-278-6446 San Bernardino (F) (Duits) David Watts 1100mgr@follett.com 909-537-7096 San Diego(A) Kathy Brown kathy.brown@darth.sdsu.edu 619-594-6954 San Francisco (F) (Kiryakakis) Husam Erciyes herciyes@follett.com 415-338-2023 San Jose (B&N) (Schmit) Jesse Nelson sm8011@bncollege.com 408-924-1845 San Luis Obispo (F) (Duits) David Watts dwatts@follett.com 805-756-5301 San Marcos (F) (Duits) Pamela Lovsted 1259mgr@fheg.follett.com 760-750-4730 Sonoma (B&N) (Hagge) Steve Higgenbotham sm499@bncollege.com 707-664-2329 Stanislaus (B&N) (Hagge) Janelle Maiwald sm525@bncollege.com 209-667-3161 (Updated February 2018)
CSU Bookstore Course Materials Managers:
The following list identifies the person with responsibility for course materials. Titles, breadth of responsibilities and line-of-reporting are NOT uniform on the campuses. In many instances the store director is the only approved contact. Also, stores are either leased (F=ollett or B&N=Barnes and Noble) or self-operated by the auxiliary/foundation (A=self op.)
Campus Contact E-Mail Address Phone Bakersfield (F) TBA 1250txt@follett.com 661-654-2273 Channel Islands (F) 0591txt@fheg.follett.com 805-482-5456 Chico (A) 1390txt@follett.com 530-898-6966 Dominguez Hills (F) Amanda Enriquez 0886txt@fheg.follett.com 310-243-3103 ext 3202 East Bay (F) Eduina Escobar 1106txt@fheg.follett.com 510-885-3507 Fresno (A) Dusty Guthier sguthier@csufresno.edu 559-278-4062 Fullerton (A) Claude Damsa cdamsa@fullerton.edu 657-278-3418 Humboldt (F) Katie McCreary 1268txt@follett.com 707-826-5833 Long Beach (A) Rochelle McCoy rochelle.mccoy@csulb.edu 562-985-7705 Los Angeles (B&N) Brian Griffin TM670@bncollege.com 323-343-2500 Maritime Academy (F) Dulce Ramirez 0766txt@fheg.follett.com Monterey Bay (F) Jared Issaef 2029txt@follett.com Northridge (F) Robert Munck 0150txt@fheg.follett.com 818-677-2932 Pomona (A) Suzanne Donnelly smdonnelly@cpp.edu 909 869 3284 Sacramento (F) Sabrina Pound 0037txt@follett.com 916-278-6446 San Bernardino (F) 1100txt@fheg.follett.com 909-537-5966 San Diego (A) Ben Compton ben.compton@darth.sdsu.edu 619-594-7543 San Francisco (F) Wendy Johnson 1304txt@fheg.folett.com 415-338-7377 San Jose (B&N) Emma Mead TM8011@bncollege.com 408-924-1845 San Luis Obispo (F) Deanna Carrol 2020txt@follett.com 805-756-1171 San Marcos (F) Melanie LaCroix 1259txt@follett.com 760-750-4730 Sonoma (B&N) Courtney Best TM499@bncollege.com 707-664-2329 Stanislaus (B&N) Arianna Restua tm525@bncollege.com 209-667-3161 (Updated February 2018)
Auxiliary Commercial Shops Contacts:
The following list identifies the campus employee with overall responsibility for a foundation organization that oversees the bookstore, bookstore contract, and provision of course materials under contract to the campus. Titles, aggregated foundation departments, and line-of-reporting are NOT uniform on the campuses.
Campus Contact E-Mail Address Bakersfield Thomas Wallace vpsa@csub.edu Channel Islands Erik Blaine erik.blaine@csuci.edu Chico David Buckley dbuckley@csuchico.edu Dominguez Hills Richard Chester rchester@csudh.edu East Bay Debbie Chaw Debbie.chaw@csueb.edu Fresno Debbie Astone debbiea@csufresno.edu Fullerton Chuck Kissel ckissel@fullerton.edu Humboldt Dave Nakamura dave.nakamura@humboldt.edu Long Beach Don Penrod donald.penrod@csulb.edu Los Angeles Alma Sahagun sahag@cslanet.calstatela.edu California Maritime Academy Mark Goodrich mgoodrich@csum.edu Monterey Bay Kevin Saunders kesunders@csum.edu Northridge Rick Evans rick.evans@csun.edu Pomona David Prenovost dfprenovost@cpp.edu Sacramento Jim Reinhart jim.reinhart@csus.edu San Bernardino John Griffin john.griffin@csusb.edu San Diego Todd Summer todd.summer@sdsu.edu San Francisco Jason Porth jporth@sfsu.edu San Jose Lisa Thomas lisa.thomas@sjsu.edu San Luis Obispo Lorli Leetham lleetham@calpoly.edu San Marcos Bella Newberg Newberg@csusm.edu Sonoma Neil Markley neil.markley@sonoma.edu Stanislaus Darrell Haydon dhaydon@csustan.edu BOOKSTORE WEB SITES
COURSE MATERIAL PROVIDERS
- MARKETING
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Various marketing materials are available to download and reproduce from the AL$ websites. In addition, there is a set of exhibit materials including a medium-sized banner that bookstores may loan for their campus events.
Affordable Learning Solutions brochure:
CSU MERLOT brochure:
OER Search for your webpage:
Quick Open Textbook Searches in MERLOT
Enter key words below to search the entire MERLOT library.
Enter the ISBN of a book below to find related FREE open textbooks.
The AL$ coordinators webpage also offers tools and resources to plan and market communications and events.
This site includes:
- Project planning template
- Communication planning template
- Guidelines for planning and deploying your AL$ program
For further assistance with marketing resources and to reserve the bookstore loan items, please contact the project marketing manager at fneely@calstate.edu
- PRESENTATIONS
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Available upon request:
- AOA:
- ALS:
- CAMEX (NACS)
- BOOKSTORE ADVISORY TEAM
- BOOKSTORES
- PROJECTS AND PILOTS
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Affordable Learning Solutions has and continues to conduct pilots of solutions that are possible savings for CSU students. Pilots are conducted to provide a basis for evaluation as well as to conduct an actual use case to customize and improve products and services. Projects are adopted products or services that are organized with vendor partners for the most efficient provision of options to faculty and students.
OpenStax Interactive eReader
- AL$ WEB PAGE LINKS
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- Course Materials Program
- Custom Publishing Program
- RESOURCES
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AL$ maintains resources for bookstores to participate in all AL$ programs and CSU/legal directives. Many may be accessed via the web. For assistance, contact the AL$ bookstore liaison at sehrhorn@calstate.edu
Course Fees Executive order 1102
Budget Office accountability 1102
Non General Funds Executive Order 919
- AL$ COURSE FEE SUGGESTIONS
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To assist faculty in expediting course fee approval on your campus, please share the following ‘Five Easy Steps’ and course fee worksheet:
FIVE EASY STEPS FOR FACULTY TO OBTAIN COURSE FEE APPROVAL FOR COURSE MATERIALS
COURSE FEE COMMITTEE SITES:
Cal Maritime: (suggest requesting information from Finance or Student Affairs)