{"id":946,"date":"2023-02-22T11:49:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T16:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/scholarlycommunication\/?p=946"},"modified":"2023-02-22T11:51:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T16:51:54","slug":"tell-us-your-textbook-affordability-story-for-a-chance-to-win-a-personal-study-room-for-a-whole-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/scholarlycommunication\/2023\/02\/22\/tell-us-your-textbook-affordability-story-for-a-chance-to-win-a-personal-study-room-for-a-whole-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Us Your Textbook Affordability Story for a Chance to Win a Personal Study Room for a Whole Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Textbook costs have long been a concern for students, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated that problem. U.S. PIRG<\/a> found that 65% of students skipped buying a required textbook due to cost. A survey conducted by Temple Student Government<\/a> in 2020 showed that in order to afford a textbook, 41% have worked extra hours at their job, and 14% have skipped meals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tell us your textbook affordability story<\/strong> for a chance to win a personal study room for a whole day during final exams! Submit a true story about the most money you spent on textbooks in one semester. In a paragraph, audio\/video clip, graphic design, or some photos, briefly share how this expense impacted you and what that money would have gone towards if you didn’t have to pay for textbooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five winners will be randomly selected from all entries. Winners may select their date and library location (Charles Library or Ginsburg Library). The study room must be used M\u2013F, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, May 2\u2013May 5 or on May 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deadline to submit: March 17, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Use this form to submit your story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Textbook costs have long been a concern for students, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated that problem. U.S. PIRG found that 65% of students skipped buying a required textbook due to cost. A survey conducted by Temple Student Government in 2020 showed that in order to afford a textbook, 41% have worked extra hours at their job, and … Continue reading Tell Us Your Textbook Affordability Story for a Chance to Win a Personal Study Room for a Whole Day!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":816,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-education-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/scholarlycommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/scholarlycommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/scholarlycommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/scholarlycommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/scholarlycommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/scholarlycommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/scholarlycommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/scholarlycommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/scholarlycommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/scholarlycommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}