by Jessica Wright
Student handbooks and planners are typically handed out to students the first week of classes for free. This year students came back to college to find out that they will not be getting a student handbook or planner. Now, they cost $6 in the bookstore.
This is very disturbing to many students on campus. The student handbook was updated and now includes the new attendance policy and events for the year. The student handbook is now a required textbook for student development classes for freshman students.
Abigail Bowers, Office Administrator of Student Services, said, “It's another way for students to know important dates in case they do not read e-mail or the screens around school. It is also a way to make students more responsible.” The student handbook is available online as well, a fact that many students do not know.
Abigail Bowers also said “they are not making a profit off of the student handbooks.” The number of students enrolled in student development classes on the first day of class was 339 while the book store only sold 266 handbook planners. When asking Vice President of Student Services Anthony Underwood how many handbooks were ordered he said “several thousand were ordered.” Now if they are required for the student development classes and only 339 students are enrolled this semester why did they order so many extras. It will be a required textbook next semester as well, but still that number will not reach the thousands mark. They are available to all students as well but they don't have them set up in any way that students would know where to get them.
Students have a strong opinion on the handbook situation. Cassandra Mills said, “I feel they should be free since they are wanting to use them as a tool for students to know information about policies at the college as well as to help the students become more responsible.”
Nick Preston, sophomore, says “I don't want to have to pay for information that should be given to us for free.”
“If it takes $6 for each book to ‘break even’ then we should find other means of ‘breaking even.’ We need to spend money on other things like bettering our security on campus than worrying about charging students for a handbook that you think will make them more responsible,” Broc Higgins said. Michael Caplinger, sophomore, has similar feelings “I think it is stupid, they have given them away for so many years. When I came back the first week I thought we would be getting them but I was wrong. If they want to sell them then the money should go to student services or something to benefit the students not the book store.”
“After so many years of doing something one way there is no reason to change it. I wonder at the end of the year when there are more than 1,000 planners left over, if they will rethink the charging of them,” Junior Mary Ellison said.
Trying to make students more responsible and charging them $6 for information they need to know is causing concerns. They say they liked it better when student life organizations purchased the handbooks and gave them to students.
Student handbooks and planners are typically handed out to students the first week of classes for free. This year students came back to college to find out that they will not be getting a student handbook or planner. Now, they cost $6 in the bookstore.
This is very disturbing to many students on campus. The student handbook was updated and now includes the new attendance policy and events for the year. The student handbook is now a required textbook for student development classes for freshman students.
Abigail Bowers, Office Administrator of Student Services, said, “It's another way for students to know important dates in case they do not read e-mail or the screens around school. It is also a way to make students more responsible.” The student handbook is available online as well, a fact that many students do not know.
Abigail Bowers also said “they are not making a profit off of the student handbooks.” The number of students enrolled in student development classes on the first day of class was 339 while the book store only sold 266 handbook planners. When asking Vice President of Student Services Anthony Underwood how many handbooks were ordered he said “several thousand were ordered.” Now if they are required for the student development classes and only 339 students are enrolled this semester why did they order so many extras. It will be a required textbook next semester as well, but still that number will not reach the thousands mark. They are available to all students as well but they don't have them set up in any way that students would know where to get them.
Students have a strong opinion on the handbook situation. Cassandra Mills said, “I feel they should be free since they are wanting to use them as a tool for students to know information about policies at the college as well as to help the students become more responsible.”
Nick Preston, sophomore, says “I don't want to have to pay for information that should be given to us for free.”
“If it takes $6 for each book to ‘break even’ then we should find other means of ‘breaking even.’ We need to spend money on other things like bettering our security on campus than worrying about charging students for a handbook that you think will make them more responsible,” Broc Higgins said. Michael Caplinger, sophomore, has similar feelings “I think it is stupid, they have given them away for so many years. When I came back the first week I thought we would be getting them but I was wrong. If they want to sell them then the money should go to student services or something to benefit the students not the book store.”
“After so many years of doing something one way there is no reason to change it. I wonder at the end of the year when there are more than 1,000 planners left over, if they will rethink the charging of them,” Junior Mary Ellison said.
Trying to make students more responsible and charging them $6 for information they need to know is causing concerns. They say they liked it better when student life organizations purchased the handbooks and gave them to students.
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