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ROBINSON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
SELECTION OF TEXT MATERIALS FOR CORE COURSES

Purpose

The document titled "Core Course Coordination Functions Within the Academic Unit: Supplement to May 1984 Core Course Coordination Policies and Procedures" (approved by the RCB faculty on May 25, 1988) states that the functions of core course coordination include:

Coordinating the selection of text materials for the course in accordance with policies and procedures for selection of text materials for core courses as developed by the curricular program councils and reviewed and approved by the Executive committee and the Faculty Affairs Committee.

The purpose of this document is to provide those policies and procedures for selection of text materials for core course.

Policies and Procedures

The core course coordinator (or designee) will chair a committee of, at least, three full-time faculty members who will be chosen, in counsultation with the head of the academic units, to select text materials for the core course. This committee/selection process shall occur at least once every three years.

No member of the selection committee, including the chair of the committee, will be the author or co-author of a textbook which could be adopted for the core course.

The core course coordinator will facilitiate the selction committee's deliberation by assuming responsibility for ordering complimentary examination copies of textbooks and supplementary materials.

Once the committee has made its decision (which should occur before the end of Spring Quarter so that textbook orders can be implemented either effective Summer or Fall Quarter), the decision of the committee will be relayed to the head of the academic unit (if other than the core course coordinator) for purposes of placing the bookstore orders. However, in those academic units where the entire faculty wishes to vote on textbook selection, the selection committee's recommendation will first be ratified by the department faculty.

(Approved by the Executive Committee 6/20/88)

(Approved by the Faculty Affairs Committee 8/19/88)