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 while inproving the quality of the teaching and learning process. The goal is to help faculty identify, evaluate, and access alternative resources by:

Providing access to a repository of textbooks and textbook options
Providing access to and assistance with Open Educational Resources (OER)
Assisting with exporting/linking resources in Blackboard
Providing access/links to additional resources
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
	Victoria Bhavsar	Faculty Center Program Coordinator
	Suzanne Donnelly	Associate Director, Bronco Bookstore
	Emma Gibson	ALI Steering Committee Chair , Library Faculty
	Leslie Jones	Library Service Specialist, Library Staff
	Bedan Kamau	Sr. Instructional Designer, eLearning
	James Koga	Science Librarian/Reference, Library Faculty
	April McKettrick	Senior Instructional Designer , eLearning
	Ann Morgan	Collection Management Coordinator/ Library Faculty
	Dennis Quinn	Chair, Interdisciplinary General Education
	Caleb Rickard	ASI Senator-at-Large, Student Interest Council (SIC)
	Harmit Singh	Human Nutrition & Food Science, Faculty
	Christy Stevens	Reference and Information Literacy Coordinator/ Library Faculty
	Erick Zelaya	Multimedia Developer, eLearning