Curator’s Statement

Dave Dillon

A priority for the curator is to address textbook affordability for community college and university students, and promote the use and adoption of open, low-cost, high-quality materials. Equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility, and usability are primary focuses and the increasing accessibility and usability of this textbook is an active commitment, and work in progress.  Pressbook’s Accessibility Statement.

Tracking Adoptions

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Ancillaries

For adopters who may use this text and develop ancillaries, please consider sharing with the adopter community to continue to benefit our students.  To share an ancillary, send an e-mail to blueprintforsuccessincollege@gmail.com  Thank you.

Let us know if you if you have a suggested edit or revision, or encounter a challenge

If you have a suggested edit or revision, or encounter challenges with this resource, please let us know so that we can address the issue. Please include the following information:

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Disclaimer: Work in Progress

Thank you for your interest in this book!  This is a dynamic work that has stable unit and chapter content, and is also work in progress to include but is not limited to: student review, peer review, accessibility review, appendices development, ancillary development. Corrections, minor edits, accessibility improvements, and appendix and ancillary developments are ongoing. All changes and revisions made strive for the best student and instructor learning experience while minimizing disruption. Consideration and effort will be made for larger changes to be made in between traditional instructional terms. Downloads of this text are encouraged with the gentle reminder that the webbook is dynamic and will represent the most current changes while downloads are static and current to the date and time of the download.

Accessibility Features

This book was created with a good faith effort to ensure that it will meet accessibility standards wherever possible, and to highlight areas where we know there is work to do. It is our hope that by being transparent in this way, we can begin the process of making sure accessibility is top of mind for all authors, adopters, students and contributors of all kinds on open textbook projects. Accessibility assessments are in progress.

Last Update

This book was last updated on July 16, 2024 and has been released as version 2.0.

Attribution

This statement was adapted from Accessibility Statement by Amanda Coolidge, Sue Doner, Tara Robertson, and Josie Gray, Accessibility Toolkit – 2nd Edition, BCcampus, licensed under CC BY 4.0 and from Blueprint for Success in College and Career – Oregon Edition by Dave Dillon, Norma Cárdenas, and Linnea Spitzer.

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Curator's Statement Copyright © 2024 by Dave Dillon is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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