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Clackamas Print
News
Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007
Bookstore: friend with benefits
Kyle Steele
The Clackamas Print
This year the campus book
store will finally give back
for all the books that students
have to buy each term.
The Clackamas Cougar
Rewards plan will be a way
for students to receive items
just for making purchases at
the bookstore.
Store
Manager
Dave
Hulcrom created the program
based on an existing idea from
ASG book
exchange
Good news: Students can save
and make money from their old
textbooks.
The Associated Student
Government (ASG) has its annual
book exchange at the start and
end of each term.
In the Bill Brod Community
Center, inside the cafeteria, stu
dents can come and sell their
books to other students instead
of just selling them back to the
bookstore for less than the price
of the book.
This is a great way to find and
sell textbooks, especially if the
bookstore cannot take any more
books or is out of the books stu
dents need for class.
The book exchange is here
the first two weeks of the term,
and again during finals week.
Students have until the third week
of the term to collect their money
and any of their books that did
not sell.
There are no guarantees that
every book will sell. All textbooks
are kept in the ASG office in the
black cabinet, where they will
stay until they are - or if they are
-sold.
So, when finals week
approaches this term, hurry to
collect those books and money
before it’s too late.
-Compiled by Mallory Bashaw
the Missouri Book Service,
the largest bookstore systems
provider in the United States.
Clackamas is the most recent
school to implement it.
The program will require
that students sign up online at
the store Web site to be entered
into the system. Participating
students will get a point for
every dollar they spend on
anything from books, t-shirts,
food and drinks.
“You get a hundred points*
for signing up,” said Janne
McLain, who manages mer
chandising and marketing at
the bookstore.
The store is currently
working on a catalog that will
be released later in the year.
Following the release, cus
tomers will be able to spend
their Cougar Points on a
wide selection of merchan
dise in the rewards catalog.
Items that don’t count toward
reward points are gift cer
tificates, tools, backflow kits,
graduation items, bus passes
and TI-83 and TI-84 calcula
tors.
Clackamas’ rewards pro
gram is one of only a hand
ful of similar rewards systems
across the country. Arizona
State
University’s
own
Pitchfork Perks program and
Clackamas’s Cougar Rewards
are just the latest college ser
vice plans to be implemented
across the country. Over the
last few years, more and more
schools have chosen to reward
students for their continued
use of the campus bookstore.
“You can go to CCC rewards
and look at your points at any
time,” said McLain.
There are currently n
plans for the points to expiri
so customers can save thei
up to use later.
Those who have alreaq
purchased books and othe
reward-points-credited prod
ucts without signing up ft
Cougar Rewards can sti
redeem their points. Studen
must sign up online and the
bring past receipts to th
bookstore so that staff can lo
the points to the customer
account.
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their students,” said Drebiri.
A push this fall has been for
faculty to call and check up on
individuals who do not show
up to class. A particular group
that the college is paying extra
attention to this year is first-time
freshmen.
“That’s the group that has
never been to college before;
they’re traditionally right out of
high school, or they’re maybe
returning adult students that
have never been to college,” said
Drebin. “If they fall into that full-
time category, we try and watch
their full-time progression from
fall to winter.”
“All of the research and litera
ture out there that has ever been
done on retention says that the
more connection that a studertt
can have with their faculty, the
more likely they are to stay and
retain,” she added. “We work
really hard to make those rela
tionships happen.”
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