• b. Vendor will purchase Trade Books not meeting these requirements at a price agreeable to University and the Vendor.

3. Open Educational Resources

  • The vendor shall provide OER course materials to support academic programs as needed/required and will accommodate the adoption of OER as requested by Kentucky State University faculty.
  • KSU and its employees retain the unrestricted right to access, adopt, revise, remix, retain, redistribute, and otherwise use open educational resources (OER) for their course materials. Should a faculty member adopt OER from a company that provides print-on-demand services, this will not be found to be in conflict with any other section of this contract.
  • KSU and its employees retain the right to privacy and academic freedom in the online learning management system as well as grounded classrooms. Employees have the right to share information with students about affordable textbook purchasing options beyond just the College Bookstore. University employees have an unrestricted right to share digital course materials with students, including OER, online library materials, materials published in the LMS, and digital materials freely available on the Internet.
  • The bookstore may not use its data analytics, direct outreach, or other survey methods to market paid services to faculty using OER. Should the bookstore offer OER-based courseware or products for purchase, the bookstore may not attempt to persuade faculty using free OER to adopt these paid OER-based products.

40.4 GENERAL MERCHANDISE & MARKETING STRATEGIES

  1. General Merchandise
  2. Vendor will purchase general merchandise that have been purchased during the past academic year and are returnable to the publisher at standard industry discounts or cost.
  3. Vendor will purchase general merchandise not meeting these requirements at a price agreeable to the University and the Vendor
  4. Payment will be made after completion of inventory audit and delivered to prior vendor at a mutually agreed upon time.
  5. The Vendor shall develop a yearly Marketing Plan in conjunction with and approved by the University's Marketing and Communications team. The Vendor shall