Student Senate members introduced a resolution to support an online textbook listing proposal at their weekly meeting Thursday night.
Melissa Hildebrand, University Relations Committee chair, said committee members began brainstorming ideas for the proposal in April 2006 and started proposal preparation in September 2006.
Committee members plan to make changes to the proposal and vote the resolution out of committee at their meeting Saturday, said Hildebrand, senior in agricultural journalism and communications.
Student Senate members will take final action on the resolution at their meeting Feb. 22. Hildebrand said students are invited to provide feedback on the proposal at the meeting.
If senate members vote in favor of the resolution, it will go to university administrators for further action, Hildebrand said.
The proposal states the university provost's office would have the ability to publish textbook lists online, creating a more complete listing. The internal textbook listing also would increase instructors' accountability in listing textbooks for their classes, according to the proposed legislation.
According to a University Relations Committee report, the internal textbook listing process would proceed as follows:
n Professors submit their textbook information with class schedule information to department heads
n Department heads give the textbook information to the registrar's office
n Textbook information is collected, and the registrar's office publishes it electronically
Members of Varney's Bookstore, the K-State Student Union and upper administration potentially could show resistance to the internal textbook listing proposal, Hildebrand said.
"I think if you accentuate the positives and you show that this is benefiting not only students but the campus as a whole, I think they'll come to our view," Hildebrand said.
In other business, senate vice chair Emily Besler said the K-State PROUD Campaign reached its $35,000 goal Thursday. The campaign started the week with about $12,000 raised and 3,500 PROUD T-shirts still to be sold, said Besler, senior in political science and campaign coordinator. Campaign members ordered an additional 1,000 T-shirts in anticipation of students' demand, and only about 1,000 remain.
Students still can purchase T-shirts from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today outside the K-State Student Union Food Court; at the Iowa State basketball game Saturday; and in line for the K-State, KU basketball game Monday, if T-shirts remain. The total amount of money raised in the student-led campaign will be announced at the K-State, KU basketball game Monday.
