When a UCLA professor debuted the custom textbook a year ago, other faculty criticized it as a potential threat to teaching ...

The volume was created after a state review found that existing course materials violated a law prohibiting general education ...

In the academic world, professors and faculty often meet with representatives of textbook publishers. These book reps like to stop by, or send an email, every so often to ask what my colleagues and I ...

In a dramatic escalation of a years-long battle over sociology in Florida colleges and universities, FIU faculty allege that ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: So it's the start of a brand new semester. Your teacher hands you your syllabus. And yup you're going to spend $150 on a textbook for a class you ...

President Joe Biden's crusade against so-called "junk fees" is on its way to college campuses, and some of the pushback is fierce. Some university leaders say a planned change to an Obama-era ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students can spend hundreds of dollars on books. Tuition isn't the only higher education expense that makes paying for college ...

Despite growing online markets for discounted books, the average cost of college textbooks has risen four times faster than the rate of inflation over the past 10 years. That has caused 65 percent of ...

College textbooks cost too much—and something needs to be done about it, according to a report from the advocacy group U.S. PIRG. The College Board estimates that the average student in this country ...