SECTION EDA.1

INSTRUCTION
INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES
TEXTBOOK ADOPTIONS

Procedure

TEXTBOOK LIST

Navarro College shall, with respect to each course, provide a list of the required and recommended textbooks that specifies, to the extent practicable, the following information for each textbook:

  1. The retail price;

  2. The author;

  3. The publisher;

  4. The most recent copyright date; and

  5. The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) assigned, if any.

 

Textbook information may be found on the Navarro College Bookstore website, bookstore.navarrocollege.edu or on the Course Syllabi available from the Navarro College website.

 

PUBLICATION

Navarro College shall, as soon as practical after the college has compiled the course schedule and textbook list, but not later than the 30th day before the first day that classes are conducted, publish the list of textbooks on the Navarro College Bookstore  website, bookstore.navarrocollege.edu and on the course syllabi located on the Navarro College Website.

 

TEXTBOOK SELECTION PROCESS

Faculty members shall have an active role in the review and selection of textbooks. Department Chairs and Program Directors will approve all textbooks used within the department, and administration will enforce decisions made by the department. The Faculty Association Executive Committee (FAEC) shall mediate any issues regarding selection of departmental textbooks and ancilary materials.

  1. Department Chairs and  Program Directors shall begin discussions regarding textbook and related publisher resource adoptions for the upcoming academic year with full-time faculty in their departments and textbook representatives no later than October 1. Department Chairs shall include the Navarro College Bookstore Director or representative before the final selections of textbooks are finalized so that all parties are made aware of any implications that may result from a change in textbooks.

  2. The selection process for departmental textbooks shall be a democratic process in which all full-time faculty shall participate equally in the review, discussion, and selection of textbooks that are most appropriate to meet the course objectives. Any faculty member desiring to conduct a pilot of a textbook other than those approved by the department must be responsible for assessing student learning outcomes (SLOs) in a manner consistent with the department and report SLO data at the end of the semester to the Department Chair or Program Director in the same format. Any pilot being conducted must be communicated with the Navarro College Bookstore in advance in order to ensure the Bookstore has the accurate textbook information for the appropriate course sections and instructor. After the one-semester pilot is completed, the department will review the data and consider the textbook in the next year’s textbook selection cycle. Printed textbooks should be adopted for 2-year cycles except in extenuating circumstances and with approval of the appropriate Executive Dean or Executive Director.  The Executive Dean or Executive Director may deny the adoption of a textbook if:

    a.  The textbook does not meet State or Federal guidelines. 

    b.  The textbook is cost prohibitive and not in the best interest of the student.

  3. By February 1 of each academic year, the Navarro College Bookstore Director shall send an email to department chairs and instructional deans requesting fall adoptions of textbooks, outlining the submission process, and assigning a due date for submission.

  4. After receiving the email from the NC Bookstore Director, , the Department Chair shall submit selections to the bookstore by the established deadline of March 1 using the adoption tool provided by the Bookstore, Verba Collect. No departmental changes to textbooks shall be allowed after the deadline except in extenuating circumstances and with prior approval by the appropriate Executive Dean or Executive Director.

  5. Once selections of textbooks have been adopted by the department, all faculty within the department are required to use the selected materials. Faculty cannot require students to purchase different textbooks.

  6. Faculty shall refer students to the Navarro College Bookstore website for information regarding prices of textbooks and comparisons to other textbook company pricing.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

 

Navarro College will disseminate to students information regarding:

  1.  Available institutional programs for renting textbooks or for purchasing used textbooks;

  2. Available institutional guaranteed textbook buy-back programs;

  3. Available institutional alternative content delivery programs; or

  4. Other available institutional cost-saving strategies.

 

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL FOR CERTAIN STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES

This section explains the process of obtaining alternative format versions such as PDF, e-book, or other digital formats for required course textbooks and materials.

Materials that are considered required for a course or program must be identified in writing on the courses syllabus, or by another agreement by the course instructor and/or department.

 

REQUEST FOR SPECIALIZED INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

Students requesting specialized formats must be approved by the Office of Accessibilty and Accommodations as needing the "alternative format" accommodation based on her/his disability. 

A request for alternative format materials must be made to the Navarro College Office of Accessibilty and Accommodations and must include a proof of purchase of the course materials (if applicable).

The Office of Accessibilty and Accommodations will then make a request to the publishers. Requests typically take at least 2 weeks to process.  A publisher or manufacturer may require that a request made by Navarro College include from each student signed statement described in 19 Administrative Code 4.206(c).

In order to facilitate students getting their materials in a timely manner, instructors and academic departments shall comply with Navarro College's procedures for turning in materials and reading lists by the established deadlines.

 

ELECTRONIC COPIES

Each electronic copy of instructional material must:

  1. Be in a format that contains all of the information that is in the instructional material, including any text, sidebar, table of contents, chapter headings, chapter subheadings, footnotes, index, glossary, and bibliography, and is approved by the publisher or manufacturer, as applicable, and the college as a format that will contain that material; and is compatible with commonly used Braille translation and speech synthesis software; and

  2. Include any correction or revision available at the time the electronic copy is provided.

If the publisher or manufacturer and Navarro College are not able to agree on a format, the publisher or manufacturer, as applicable, shall provide the electronic copy of the instructional material in a format that can be read by a word processing application and that contains as much of the material specified by that subsection as is practicable.

 

Approved: 2015
Updated: 2019, 2020, 2024
Reviewed: 2022