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Minnesota State College Student Association (MSCSA)

 to see how well federal and state disclosure laws on textbook pricing are being carried out on two-year campuses.

You may remember that in January I I wrote about 

by the association and the state Office of Higher Education on students' textbook habits and ways colleges could help lower costs.

That one does mention the legislation. The laws essentially require colleges to provide enough early information on the textbooks students will use so they can shop around for lower prices.

This survey will be focused on how well those laws are working at Minnesota's two-year colleges, said MSCSA Associate Director Jessica Medearis. (MSCSA represents all students at community and technical colleges in the state.)

Association leaders helped draft the state's 2007 Textbook Disclosure, Pricing, and Access Act, she said.

The project is apparently in the very early stages, she said, so she wasn't sure when it'll be carried out. She wrote on the association's Web site that it could start "after school resumes in 2012."

Textbook costs are a hot topic here, so I'm quite interested in seeing the results.

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