ROTEL Project

Remixing Open Textbooks through an Equity Lens (ROTEL):

Culturally Relevant Open Textbooks for High Enrollment General Education Courses and Career and Professional Courses at Six Public Massachusetts Colleges

Our Mission

The ROTEL initiative promotes textbook affordability, student success, and inclusion and equity to benefit all students, particularly minoritized students at our six institutions. The project will provide stipends for faculty to remix and/or develop accessible, intentionally inclusive open textbooks and other OER that reflect students’ local and lived experiences.

ROTEL's Six Institutions

Fitchburg State University

Jaqueline Kremer, Dean, Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library

jkremer@fitchburgstate.edu

 

Connie Strittmatter, Strategic Projects Librarian

cstrittm@fitchburg.edu

 

Framingham State University

Millie Gonzalez, Dean, Whittemore Library

vgonzalez@framingham.edu

 
Rebecca Dowgiert, Scholarly Communications Librarian
 

Holyoke Community College

Kris Ricker Choleva, Director of Planning, Curriculum and Assessment

kcholeva@hcc.edu

 

Jennifer Rivers, Coordinator of Instructional Design 

 jrivers@hcc.edu

 

Northern Essex Community College

Susan Tashjian, Coordinator of Instructional Technology
stashjian@necc.mass.edu

Salem State University

Elizabeth McKeigue, Dean, Berry Library and Learning Commons

emckeigue@salemstate.edu

 
Justin Snow, Library Chairperson    
 
 

Springfield Technical College

Emily Butler, Outreach and OER Librarian

efbutler@stcc.edu

 

ROTEL Consultant

Marilyn Billings, Faculty Advisor & Advocate

marilyn.billings@comcast.net

 

Massachusetts Department of Higher Education

Robert Awkward, Assistant Commissioner for Academic Effectiveness

RAwkward@dhe.mass.edu

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