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That will help towards one semester of books, labs, parking, and meal plan.
You bring up a good point. While we are new at this, my thought is it should not be called a “scholarship” as it is really more of a gift. A one-time cash award, payable to the player or their family. Currently not being awarded to anyone with an athletic scholarship, may not even be awarded to someone playing a college sport, (one of this years recipients is not a softball player) the recipient will most likely be receiving financial help in the form of academic scholarships from other sources.
I dont want this to interfere with the scholarship process or financial aid that a student has to deal with every year.
Do you have any idea as to a better way to handle this?
Are you talking about books for one semester or one year?
Don't ever buy textbooks at a campus bookstore...However, a naive freshman going to the campus bookstore and needing a $350 textbook for one class ... and yes, they are out there. I will say, technology has changed things, but textbooks are still big business.
Don't ever buy textbooks at a campus bookstore...
There are a lot of options nowadays. At some point I actually stopped using a textbook for a few of the classes I had been teaching for a while and just handed out an extensive set of class notes, with references they could check out from the library if they wanted to. Of course I had some kids complain in the end of year class evaluations that they didn't have a textbook (even though all that had to do was check out one of the 10 books I had referenced) so sometimes you cannot win..That is rule #1 for me ... although I will admit my kids have because there have been a few times that the bookstore was cheaper. Rare. Very rare.
I can’t remember which podcast it was, but either Freakonomics or Planet Money did a great podcast on text books and text book arbitrage.
There are a lot of options nowadays. At some point I actually stopped using a textbook for a few of the classes I had been teaching for a while and just handed out an extensive set of class notes, with references they could check out from the library if they wanted to. Of course I had some kids complain in the end of year class evaluations that they didn't have a textbook (even though all that had to do was check out one of the 10 books I had referenced) so sometimes you cannot win..
The professor who didn't like your paper didn't happen to use a textbook she wrote, did she? LOL!!That was one part of my college paper!
If we are giving out a cash award of $500 to a student, what does that do for them? Will it buy books/materials for a semester? Will it do any more?
Thanks!