Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of higher-education policy
and sociology at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, will deliver the keynote
address at the 2017 Textbook Affordability Conference (TAC), Nov. 10-12, at the
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.
Goldrick-Rab is author of the Amazon bestseller Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial
Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream and founder of the Wisconsin
HOPE Lab, the nation’s only translational research laboratory focused on ways
to make college more affordable. Her keynote speech will discuss reasons why
campuses must collaborate with internal partners to address affordability.
TAC 2017 will also feature presentations from Robin Baliszewski, managing director, Pearson North
America; TJ Bliss, director of development and strategy, Wiki Education; and
Rick Anderson, associate dean for collections and scholarly communication, J.
Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. All TAC 2017
learning events are focused on developing models that campuses can use to
create more affordable, accessible, and effective course-material options for
students.
Baliszewski was president of Pearson’s
North American career and professional education business from 2000-09 and
served as the company’s director for people, with responsibility for
recruitment, retention, development, and succession of Pearson employees. Her
current responsibilities include sales and field marketing for
higher-education, academic, corporate, and government markets.
Bliss is responsible for developing
strategies and relationships in the philanthropy community and working with the
Wiki Education board to create an organizational strategy. He guided the open
education resources portfolio for the Hewlett Foundation for the last three
years and served as director of assessment and accountability for the
department of education in Idaho.
Anderson previously worked as a
bibliographer for YBP Inc., now known as GOBI Library Solutions. In addition,
he was head acquisitions librarian for the University of North Carolina,
Greensboro; director of resource acquisitions for the University of Nevada,
Reno; and is a regular contributor to The Scholarly Kitchen blog.
The conference schedule and
registration information is available at the TAC 2017 website. The Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center has rooms
available at special conference rates until Oct. 2.
