How the grant works
Faculty apply for a stipend to replace a paid textbook with openly licensed materials, then report back on what they built and how much it saved students; a course that's redesigned once stays free for every future section unless a later instructor opts out.
Where the savings go first
High-enrollment general education courses are prioritized, since replacing one expensive textbook there affects the most students per dollar of grant money.
In and around Porter Falls
Curriculum decisions at Porter run through the departments that meet in Founders Hall and the Applied Arts Building, then to Faculty Senate, then to the Provost in Millwright Hall. The pace is deliberately slow and the review calendar is published.
The practical details
Grant: Up to $1,500 per course redesigned. Savings so far: Tracked publicly each year. Who applies: Any faculty member teaching a high-enrollment course. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Office of the Provost (Millwright Hall, Room 300). Call (715) 555–0130 or email provost@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.