Congratulations to LibreTexts Partners (Present and Past) on their ASCCC Awards

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The LibreTexts team extends a well-deserved congratulations to current, and former, partner campuses Coalinga College and Diablo Valley College, for their 2024-2025 Exemplary Program Award Winners for Excellence in Community College Programs from the Academic Senate of the California Community Colleges. 

From the ASCCC press release:

This year’s theme, 'Integrating, Advancing, and Sustaining Open Educational Resources for Access and Equity,' recognized programs that addressed the challenges, experiences, and perspectives of students, focusing on ethnic studies courses that enable them to explore their own narratives.

 

(From L to R: Chancellor Sonya Christian, ASCCC President Cheryl Aschenbach, Coalinga OER Librarian Heather M. Evans, Board President Hildegarde B. Aguinaldo, Board Vice President Bill Rawlings, Deputy Chancellor Rowena M. Tomaneng)

The Coalinga College Library, led by OER Librarian Heather M. Evans and Rachel Fleming (now at Irvine Valley College), was developed to address the college's low OER adoption rate of 10%, which was significantly below the state average of 29%. The program implemented a comprehensive three-pronged approach: an Information Blitz to conduct extensive faculty outreach; Easy On-Ramps to OER by partnering with LibreTexts and others which helped simplify adoption for adjunct instructors and streamlining students' experiences; and a project management approach with integrated support. This approach resulted in an 85% full-time faculty adoption rate and over 50% of Coalinga's transfer sections using OER by the following fall semester.

 

(From L to R: Chancellor Sonya Christian, ASCCC President Cheryl Aschenbach, DVC Academic Senate President John Freytag, DVC Dean Anne Kingsley, DVC Dept. Chair Lindsey Shively, Board President Hildegarde B. Aguinaldo, Deputy Chancellor Rowena M. Tomaneng)

The OER@DVC at Diablo Valley College (DVC) is a program aimed at reducing and eliminating textbook costs to achieve inclusive and equitable student excellence. Led by Andrea Sorce and Lindsey Shively, the program has been instrumental in transforming the culture of curriculum development at DVC by promoting OER and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) sections. Through strategic use of grants, such as a $60,000 LibreText grant and an $860,000 California ZTC Program grant, the program has saved students significant amounts per semester and expanded ZTC sections. The initiative also focuses on outreach, relationship-building, and districtwide collaboration, creating the Districtwide OER Council (DOERC) to unify efforts across the district.

 

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