Affordable Learning Initiative (ALI) Steering Committee

Its Charge

The charge of this steering committee is to provide the infrastructure to assist faculty and students in locating affordable, accessible, and quality alternatives to reduce the cost of textbooks and other educational materials. The goal is to help faculty identify, evaluate, and access alternative resources by:

Providing access to a repository of textbooks and textbook options
Assisting with exporting/linking resources in Blackboard
Providing access/links to additional sources
Providing access/links to e-learning sites and information
Providing assistance with copyright issues and questions
Providing eReserve and print reserve services
Provide a forum via the ALI website where faculty efforts in using affordable alternatives in their courses are shared

Its Makeup

This committee will consist of the major stakeholders on campus. Currently these are:

	Marten denBoer	Provost
	John McGuthry	CIO
	Ray Wang	Dean of Library
	Representative from each college, to be appointed by the Academic Senate for a 2-year term
	Emma Gibson	Dept. Chair/Head of Public Services, Library
	Ann Morgan	Collection Management Coordinator/Reference, Library
	Christy Stevens	Library Instruction Coordinator/Reference, Library
	James Koga	Science Librarian/Reference, Librarian
	Leslie Jones	Library Service Specialist, Reserves
	April McKettrick	Administrator in Charge, eLearning
	Bedan Kamau	Sr. Instructional Designer, eLearning
	Erick Zelaya	Multimedia Developer, eLearning
	Suzanne Donnelly	Associate Director, Bronco Bookstore
	Victoria Bhavsar	Program Coordinator, Faculty Center
	Shireen Amin	ASI Senator-at-Large, Greek