Doug Woolard: USF Serious About an On-Campus Football Stadium Now

[JTrue]

If an academic book breaks even, that's considered good. No professors are getting rich off of their books in class. And since saying I know because I've worked at USF won't be enough, here's a link to someone else saying it.

http://oudaily.com/news/2009/feb/13/professors-get-use-self-authored-textbooks/

And here's a book written by a USF professor that I did some of the research for when I was his grad student. I assure you, he's making VERY little from "forcing" his students to buy it.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B008BU7AOU

Edited June 21, 2013 by JTrue

[Bull-by-Marriage]

It doesn't matter to me who does or does not make money off of the books. What matters is that the books are expensive and if the state were to regulate what PUBLIC universities had to use, then the students would save money. There is no reason that a used book should cost $125.00. Maybe I'm naive, but the accounting laws are the same no matter where you go to school, so a single book could be used for all 4000 level of whatever accounting course you are taking.

[charsibb]

Can't speak for USF specifically, but most schools allow the prof to choose the text.

 

I've had it both ways, and I prefer to choose my own because, frankly, there are some AWFUL texts out there.

 

Not sure why I bother, really, for undergrads. They never read the dammed things before class.

 

But I always try to get the cheapest/ most reasonable deal for the kids. I DO remember the expense, and I had to pay my own way thru school.

[Gismo]

Had a professor who published his own HUGE textbook for his course but in paperback and found a way to make it cheap, only cost $50 but was twice the size of some books that cost double and triple that amount.

Edited June 23, 2013 by Gismo

[Gismo]

Can we make a pitch to red bull to be our corporate sponsor for the stadium????

Red Bull stadium, home of the USF bulls.

It seems very fitting don't you think?

[RaisingFenix]

Had a professor who published his own HUGE textbook for his course but in paperback and found a way to make it cheap, only cost $50 but was twice the size of some books that cost double and triple that amount.

Gismo, you wouldn't happen to be referring to a certain 2012 Carnegie Foundation U.S. Professor of the Year, would you?

[Gismo]

Had a professor who published his own HUGE textbook for his course but in paperback and found a way to make it cheap, only cost $50 but was twice the size of some books that cost double and triple that amount.

Gismo, you wouldn't happen to be referring to a certain 2012 Carnegie Foundation U.S. Professor of the Year, would you?

That's the one.

[charsibb]

 

 

Had a professor who published his own HUGE textbook for his course but in paperback and found a way to make it cheap, only cost $50 but was twice the size of some books that cost double and triple that amount.

Gismo, you wouldn't happen to be referring to a certain 2012 Carnegie Foundation U.S. Professor of the Year, would you?

That's the one.

 

 

Missed him by two years. Would have liked to have had him as a prof, listening to his speech, I can deff see the passion.

 

[Bull-by-Marriage]

Can we make a pitch to red bull to be our corporate sponsor for the stadium????

Red Bull stadium, home of the USF bulls.

It seems very fitting don't you think?

 

 

To open the stadium, we could have a guy parachute from space!

[Gismo]

Can we make a pitch to red bull to be our corporate sponsor for the stadium????

Red Bull stadium, home of the USF bulls.

It seems very fitting don't you think?

To open the stadium, we could have a guy parachute from space!

No, parachute a bull from space.