{"id":3854,"date":"2015-07-02T16:14:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T20:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/07\/02\/helping-with-the-high-cost-of-books\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:54:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:54:20","slug":"helping-with-the-high-cost-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/helping-with-the-high-cost-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping with the cost of textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/goess-springsteen-news.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18322 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/goess-springsteen-news.jpg\" alt=\"goess-springsteen-news\" width=\"200\" height=\"256\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/256;\" \/><\/a>How 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\u2019s 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 <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/2015\/07\/01\/clemson-furman-professors-done-pricey-textbooks\/29587417\/\">Greenville News<\/a><\/em><\/strong> story about how area professors are trying to help their students with the high cost of textbooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How 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\u2019s easy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":15013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}