<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Dear Faculty,</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br></span></div><span id="m_-4384312943476790518gmail-docs-internal-guid-e053ab43-7fff-b12b-76f4-59be8caf525d"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The </span><a href="https://www.plattsburgh.edu/bookstore/index.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Campus Store & Textbooks</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> provides an important service for our students. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">It is the only place that students can use their scholarship money, financial aid, or campus emergency funds to purchase textbooks or course materials. If materials are not available through the bookstore, it can prevent students from obtaining the resources they need.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Higher Education Opportunity Act (federal law since July 1, 2010) requires us to provide the bookstore with information about required and recommended textbooks, and supplemental material that will be used in each class. We also must provide students with the ISBN and retail price of the materials for each class in connection with the course schedule. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Even if no textbook is required, we must tell the bookstore this, so that accurate information is readily available to the student. Ideally this information should be sent to the bookstore when the course is added to the schedule for the upcoming semester.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Details related to the campus responsibility in this area can be found in the </span><a href="https://www.plattsburgh.edu/about/offices-divisions/administration-finance/policies-procedures/campus-handbook/section-i-academics-research/textbook-information-heoa-policy.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Textbook Information HEOA Policy</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. To remain in compliance, all instructors must provide the Campus Store with their textbook and material orders (even if 'none'), including access codes and courseware. You may also provide students with alternative places to obtain the materials, but you must still register your adoptions with the bookstore. Sending your adoptions is easy using any of the following methods:</span></p><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:11pt;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span>Email </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="mailto:textbooks@plattsburgh.edu" target="_blank">textbooks@plattsburgh.edu</a></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:11pt;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Call 518-564-4460</span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Thank you for your assistance in providing a seamless, affordable and helpful service to our students. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We ask that you submit adoptions for the fall semester by the end of March<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">.</span> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Please reach out with any questions. Thank you!</span></p></span><br><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b>JoAnn Gleeson-Kreig, PhD</b></div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><font size="2">Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs</font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">Kehoe 807</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">518-564-2195</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=101+Broad+Street+Plattsburgh,+NY+12901&entry=gmail&source=g" target="_blank">101 Broad Street</a></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><font size="2"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=101+Broad+Street+Plattsburgh,+NY+12901&entry=gmail&source=g" target="_blank">Plattsburgh, NY 12901</a></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><b><font size="2"><a href="http://plattsburgh.edu/" target="_blank">plattsburgh.edu</a></font></b></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><b><br></b></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><b><img src="https://web.plattsburgh.edu/files/914/images/SUNY-Plattsburgh-Email-Logo-2018.jpg" class="gmail-CToWUd"></b></p></div></div>