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Innovation Achievement Award
Innovation Achievement Award Past Recipients
San Mateo County Community College District Bookstores Wins the Inaugural 2007 Innovation Achievement Award
The first NACS Foundation Innovation Achievement Award funded by the Martin D. Levine Endowment was presented during CAMEX 2007 to the San Mateo County Community College District Bookstores (SMCCCD) in California for its Textbook Rental Program. The SMCCCD includes Caņada College in Redwood City; Skyline College in San Bruno; and the College of San Mateo in San Mateo.
2006/07 Winner
The first NACS Foundation Innovation Achievement Award funded by the Martin D. Levine Endowment was presented during CAMEX 2007 to the San Mateo County Community College District Bookstores (SMCCCD) in California for its Textbook Rental Program. The SMCCCD includes Caņada College in Redwood City; Skyline College in San Bruno; and the College of San Mateo in San Mateo.
Tom Bauer, CCR, director of auxiliary services for SMCCCD, accepted the award and trophy on behalf of the bookstores at CAMEX 2007 held in Orlando, FL, March 23-27. "We're very excited and proud to receive his honor," said Bauer. "We feel it validates our efforts to help reduce costs for students at our schools."
The SMCCCD rental program has been heralded throughout California and used as a model for others in the college store industry looking for ways to help students reduce the cost of textbooks. A notable part of the district's efforts has been its solicitations of private donations to help keep the program operating for nearly last two years. The SMCCCD rental program allows students to rent any of approximately 125 different textbooks at about one-third the price of new books. Rental books are due back at the end of final exams. Since August 2005, more than 7,000 students at Caņada College and Skyline College have rented textbooks that, if purchased new, would have cost more than $448,000. Students rented those textbooks for just over $112,000.
The district will receive $5,000 as part of the award, and Bauer said plans are to use the money to purchase more textbooks to enhance the program. View the "San Mateo County Community College District Funded Textbook Rental Program" presentation (PPT). For more information about this award-winning entry, contact Tom Bauer at (650) 358-6782 or bauert@smccd.edu.
View the 2006/07 honorable mentions for the Innovation Achievement Award. (PDF)
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