Bellevue College To Lend Textbooks, Materials
Posted: 1:01 pm PDT October 25, 2009Updated: 1:05 pm PDT October 25, 2009
BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Bellevue College is embarking on a unique pilot program in the hopes of saving students money for the costs of their college textbooks.The school has received a nearly $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to start a program allowing student to rent all their textbooks and course materials, KIRO 7 reported.School officials believe that renting books, instead of buying, could produce a net savings of 13 percent of the total expenses students face.The college tested a similar model in 2005 when the school started one of the first textbook-rental programs in the country and was later expanded to other community colleges in Washington state.
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