Despite Pomona College’s promise to first-generation and low income students to support their financial needs, FLI students are too often left with no help to buy hundreds of dollars of textbooks.
Tag: Textbooks
Stuck in limbo: Low income Pomona students frustrated by uncertainty over textbook aid
The programs Pomona College has implemented to help students afford textbooks have left many students unclear if and how they can receive financial support for academic materials.
News Bites – Week of Sept. 16
Pin pad step installed as extra security at Scripps College residence halls Scripps College residence halls now require both an ID card swipe and a personalized four-digit pin for entry. In addition to increased entrance security, basement laundry facilities are being relocated or further secured, according to emails sent Aug.
Opinion: Textbook sexism creates misinformed doctors
Science textbooks — bereft of diversity and gender neutrality — use androcentric facts and figures that restrict physicians from understanding how to accurately diagnose and appropriately treat non-male patients. As a result, women and people of color are often misdiagnosed, mistreated, or simply not treated at all, which in extreme
CARE Center offers free textbook rentals for CMC students
Claremont McKenna College is offering free textbook rentals for students through the CARE Center. To rent a textbook, CMC students visit the CMC NextDorm website catalogue and search for a textbook by ISBN, title, or author. If students find their desired book, they email the CARE Center indicating which book