You’ll have to wait until next year.
When the Portland State Bookstore outsourced its operations to Nebraska Book Company this summer—as reported in the Vanguard—both parties touted an expanded textbook scholarship program as one of the deal’s biggest benefits for students.
You’ll have to wait until next year.
When the Portland State Bookstore outsourced its operations to Nebraska Book Company this summer—as reported in the Vanguard—both parties touted an expanded textbook scholarship program as one of the deal’s biggest benefits for students.
However, the Vanguard has only now learned that the program didn’t start immediately. The scholarship program will kick off in fall 2013 with $20,000 in funding from NBC and an additional undetermined amount supplied by the nonprofit bookstore itself.
For many years, the bookstore ran a textbook scholarship program that students applied to through PSU Foundation. B that program ended in 2008 when the financial crisis hit, according to bookstore manager Ken Brown.
In the meantime, students can ease the burden by renting any textbook in the store at costs lower than the purchase price.
