The members of the SGA met for their last meeting of the 2014-15 term Feb. 23.
Sen. Walker Byrd provided a follow-up presentation of his previously discussed proposal for open resources, including textbooks.
According to Byrd, the online textbooks’ quality is equivalent to the textbooks currently used by Auburn students.
The proposal of using open resources at Auburn University was passed as a resolution and will go to the faculty of Auburn to be reviewed.
“We’re supporting the faculty looking into this and everything that it is,” Byrd said.
Byrd said the idea behind open resources is to provide students with inexpensive access to online textbooks. Professors will be able to access these textbooks and delete information that they are not planning to use for the course.
“The whole goal behind this is to get it in front of professors to open their eyes to how corrupted the market for textbooks is,” Byrd said.
In other Senate news:
-Voted and passed a resolution to provide SGA with $4,000 to use toward events such as the homecoming parade
-Voted and passed the resolution making all final election scores, including Miss Auburn and Miss Homecoming, available to the public
“As a senator, I’m not doing my job if I have to tell people I don’t know why this information isn’t released,” said Sen. Jeremy Wiley.
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