Higher Education News

Boston, MA: MASSPIRG, students, faculty and administrators packed a State House hearing room today as the Joint Committee on Higher Education heard testimony about the high cost of college text books. Those testifying were calling in lawmakers to support the Act Relative to the Pricing and production of College Textbooks or ‘the Affordable Textbooks Bill’ (HB1200) , filed by Representative Steven Walsh of Lynn, which would make Massachusetts the leading state in protecting students against the unfair practices within the textbooks publishing industry which drive up book prices.