Faculty and bookstore staff are busy. Each has their own deadlines and sometimes those deadlines might not line up with each other. That’s why communication is key.
Faculty and bookstore staff are busy. Each has their own deadlines and sometimes those deadlines might not line up with each other. That’s why communication is key.
The campus store knows the importance of early adoptions and why adoption deadlines matter to the store and the students. It’s critical to start and continue conversations with faculty about the benefits of selecting course materials for the next term on-time.
You know that timely faculty adoptions are important for a variety of reasons. When adoption deadlines are met, your store has more time to find low-cost course materials, you can purchase more books during buyback, you can avoid backorders, etc. However, faculty may see course material adoptions through a different lens, so it is important to remind faculty why adoption deadlines exist and how they affect students.
On-schedule faculty adoptions can have a big impact on your campus. Whether the adoptions are early, on-time, late or change at the last minute, they affect everything from students and store staff to retention rates. That’s why it is important to develop a good, reliable process for communicating with faculty about adoptions.
As you know, getting on-time course material adoptions is very important for college stores. However, it is also a topic where faculty and stores might not see eye to eye. Faculty often ask why adoption deadlines are so early. Here are five reasons you can share with faculty about why faculty adoptions deadlines are important.
Early adoptions can help stores lower costs and increase the buyback value on readopted textbooks for students. So, how can the college store encourage more on-time adoptions? Peninsula College Bookstore has the answer: work with the deans.
This year college stores might have a hard time getting on-time adoptions from faculty members. If adoptions come in late, how can your store get low-cost books you need in time for rush and minimize the amount of work required?
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