3 JMU Faculty Members Awarded Grants to Adopt Open Textbooks

Posted March 1, 2024 in JMU Libraries News, Open Education News

Three JMU faculty members were recently selected as recipients for the statewide Open Adopt Grants program. Thanks to their efforts, about 2,095 JMU students will avoid spending a total of $102,056 on textbooks over the next five years!

JMU’s 2023 awardees included:

• Prajakta Belsare, who will use the Python Data Science Handbook for IT340: Data Science and Machine Learning
• Jonathan Jones, who will use The American Yawp for HIST 225: United States History
• Qingsheng Liu, who will use OpenStax Chemistry 2e for CHEM 132: General Chemistry II

Open Adopt Grants help make higher education more accessible to Virginia students by eliminating textbook costs. Offered through VIVA, Virginia’s Academic Library Consortium, the grants are open to faculty at any Virginia higher education institution.

Another round of Open Adopt Grants is expected for the Fall 2024 semester. Watch for the new dates in our weekly emails or check our Grants & Stipends for Open Education page for deadlines when they are announced.