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Helping with the cost of textbooks


Last updated July 2, 2015

By News administrator

goess-springsteen-newsHow have Furman chemistry professors Brian Goess and Greg Springsteen eliminated the need for their students to purchase any textbooks for a series of three organic chemistry courses? It’s easy. They not only lend students books and post lectures online, but they also collaborate with students to create a free textbook through an online wiki site. The work of the two Furman professors were featured in a front-page Greenville News story about how area professors are trying to help their students with the high cost of textbooks.

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