Affordable Learning Initiative (ALI) Steering Committee

Charge

The charge of this steering committee is to provide the infrastructure to assist faculty and students in locating affordable, accessible, and quality alternatives to reduce the cost of textbooks and other educational materials while improving the quality of the teaching and learning process. The goal is to help faculty identify, evaluate, and access alternative resources by:

• Providing access to a repository of textbooks and textbook options
• Providing access to and assistance with Open Educational Resources (OER)
• Assisting with exporting/linking resources in Blackboard
• Providing access/links to additional resources
• Providing access/links to eLearning sites and information
• Providing assistance with copyright issues and questions
• Providing eReserve and print reserve services

Makeup

This committee will consist of the major stakeholders on campus. Currently these are:

Table lists the various members of the Affordable Learning Initiative committee.

	Name	Position
	Sylvia A. Alva	Provost, Vice President for Academic Affairs
	John McGuthry	Chief Information Officer, Vice President for Information Technology
	Emma C. Gibson	Interim Dean of the University Library
	Faculty representatives from each college are appointed by the Academic Senate for a 2-year term
	Alyssa V. Loera	ALI Steering Committee Chair, Library Faculty, ALI Steering Committee Co-Chair
	Suzanne Donnelly	Associate Director, Bronco Bookstore, ALI Steering Committee Co-Chair
	Ann Loomis	Accessibility Specialist, Disability Resource Center
	Victoria Bhavsar	Director of the Faculty Center, Director of eLearning
	April Dawn	Lead Instructional Designer, eLearning
	Robert Fabrize	International Business & Marketing, Faculty
	Leslie Jones	Library Reserve Services Specialist, Library
	Erick Zelaya	Sr. Multimedia Developer, eLearning