INSTRUCTIONAL AND OTHER MATERIALS

College of the Redwoods has a strong commitment to ensuring accessibility to all of its programs and services for all residents of the Redwoods Community College District. As a matter of fiscal responsibility, students may be required to provide instructional and other materials required for a credit or noncredit course. Requirements for assessing the students a fee for instructional and other materials shall be in accordance with California Administrative Code, Title 5, Sections 59400 through 59408.

Students of College of the Redwoods may be required to provide instructional and other materials required for a credit or noncredit course, provided that the provisions for assessing a fee for the course conform to the following guidelines:

(1) The materials shall be tangible personal property which are owned or primarily controlled by an individual student; and,
(2) The materials are of a continuing value to the student outside of the classroom setting, and the material is not wholly consumed, used up or rendered valueless as it is applied in achieving the required objectives of a course which are to be accomplished under the supervision of an instructor during class hours; and,
(3) The material shall not be solely or exclusively available from the District except if it is provided to the student at the District's actual cost; and that the material is otherwise generally available, but is provided by the District for health and safety reasons, or that the material is provided in lieu of other generally available but more expensive material which would be otherwise required.

Any materials not meeting these guidelines will be provided by the Redwoods Community College District to its students at no cost to the student.

A list of all instructional and other materials to be required in a course will be made available for students no later than the first class meeting of each term. The list will be made available by the instructor of the course, the Division Office, the Center Dean, or the College Bookstore. Every effort will be made to identify in the schedule of classes each semester those courses in which materials in addition to textbooks and syllabi may be required.



Adopted by Board of Trustees: February 3, 1986