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 Volume 2 Issue 11 December 1998

Barnes & Noble to Provide Textbooks to CVU Online Students

The California Virtual University (CVU) recently announced an innovative agreement with Barnes & Noble College Bookstores, Inc. to make available textbooks and instructional materials to students who enroll in courses found in the CVU catalog (http://www.california.edu).

"The California Virtual University uses the Internet to give students in California and all over the world access to high quality instruction from accredited campuses," said Dr. Stanley Chodorow, chief executive officer of the CVU. "Through this agreement with Barnes and Noble, we're enabling students studying at a distance to access high quality instructional materials as well."

The CVU, which has been called "a study in success" by the San Francisco Examiner, integrates into one Internet-based catalog the online and technology-mediated courses and programs of California's accredited colleges and universities. More than 1,700 courses and 100 complete degree and certificate programs are accessible through the CVU catalog. As many as 25,000 students are pursuing their education online in courses offered by accredited California institutions such as Stanford, UCLA, the University of Southern California, and UC Berkeley. In total, 102 accredited California colleges and universities link courses and programs to the CVU catalog.

"We appreciate this opportunity to work with the California Virtual University, one of the most exciting, innovative and successful university programs in the country," said Max Roberts, president of Barnes & Noble College Bookstores. "As the leader in the college bookstore industry, we will continue to use technology combined with superb customer service to serve this unique college community."

Barnes & Noble College Bookstores, Inc., aprivately-held sister company to Barnes & Noble, Inc., operates college bookstores at more than 350 institutions of higher education. In California, the company serves such schools as the University of Redlands, University of California at the Berkeley Law School, Santa Clara University, the College of Marin, and the California State University at Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Monterey Bay, and Stanislaus.



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