Math professor forced to use $180 textbook written by his boss

Re:Math professor forced to use $180 textbook written by his... by glitcher on Thursday October 22, 2015 @03:14PM (#10434340)

>However, with a multi-section course, which is the case in Bourget’s situation, “the individual (faculty member) would have to work with the other people ... to make the best decision together on what those materials would be,”

What exactly do they mean by multi-section?

In college I had a very large, expensive calculus book that covered 3 semesters of calc classes. In that case I appreciated the uniformity of using one mandated textbook.

But if that is not what they meant by "mulit-section" then I question why such strict enforcement.

By and large most college textbook requirements do feel like a scam, and it only seems to be getting worse over the years.

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Re:Math professor forced to use $180 textbook written by his... by siegelzero on Thursday October 22, 2015 @03:39PM (#10434493)

Multi-section most likely means that there are several different sections of the same course running simultaneously. In addition, there are probably different professors teaching these sections.

I can understand part of the argument here - it would be important to maintain consistency among the different sections, so that students who take the class from Professor A learn basically the same material as students who take Professor B. That being said, the material presented in a low-level class like this hasn't changed in a long time, so any book should suffice.

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