As students make a final scramble to enroll, go through financial aid, pay for classes and get ready to begin a new semester, one of the last financial obstacles to overcome is the textbook purchases.
According to the U.S. Department of Education, students spend, on average $900 on textbooks per year - about half the cost of a full-time semester at a community college. As students become more and more stretched financially, MCC-Maple Woods, along with other campuses, are stepping up to fill the gaps for the most strapped students.
The MCC-Maple Woods Emergency Book Fund is just that - providing a small amount of financial assistance to the students who need it most. But the fund depends on donations from employees to keep helping students. If you would like to donate to the fund, or are interested in holding a fundraiser to benefit the fund, please contact deb.cougill@mcckc.edu.
Along with keeping the Emergency Book Fund up and running, Cougill also has created an informal lending library, in which students donate used textbooks for other students to use free of charge. Faculty members also donate "teacher copies" of textbooks to the library for student use. The lending library has been very well-received by students, and in addition to returning the books they borrowed at the end of the semester, they often add more books to the stack, increasing the selection and opportunities for other students.
MCC-Maple Woods also participates in MCC's book rental program (see page 17 of this link). Students can rent textbooks for certain courses through the bookstores for much less than the purchase price. The books are categorized into three levels, but the highest students will be required to pay for a rental textbook is $65.
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