R465-1. Purpose: To assure each Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) institution has policies, procedures, and/or guidelines in place that: (1) assure consideration of affordability for the student of required course materials; (2) make course materials costs clear during the course selections process and available to students who purchase course materials from university sources (e.g., university- or college-run bookstores or other university-designated suppliers), and (3) regulate remuneration to authors employed by the institution when course materials they have authored are required purchases for students for courses at the institution.
3.1 “Course Materials”. Any textbook or other course materials for which the student must pay that are associated with a given class. Course materials may be required or optional. Optional course materials are those that are not required in order to complete course assignments.
Availability and selection (where appropriate) of open-access course materials for which there is no cost.
4.3.1 When in a position to decide or influence issues that would result in personal gain, no employee of a USHE institution may demand or receive any payment, loan, subscription, advance, deposit of money, service, or anything of value, present or promised, in exchange for requiring students to purchase a specific textbook or course materials (other than recovering the direct cost of the materials) unless the requirement has been subjected to an appropriate level of institutional review and approval.
Sample copies, instructor copies, or instructional materials. These materials may not be sold for any type of compensation if they are marked as free samples/not for resale.
Honoraria for academic peer review of course materials.
