Faculty Services

Barnes & Noble’s commitment to higher education is reflected in everything we do. As trusted partners and advocates of your educational mission, we are devoted to helping faculty meet their goals and build the leaders of tomorrow. We provide faculty an innovative digital toolkit that enhances their textbook adoption experience and ensures textbook revenue remains on your campus.

FacultyEnlight™

FacultyEnglight, a new online textbook adoption platform, lets faculty research and adopt textbooks in one, convenient place – saving time and making textbook adoption easier than ever. FacultyEnlight features:

  • Ability to research and adopt course materials in one, convenient place
  • Read peer reviews and write your own
  • Compare cost to student and format availability before you adopt
  • Access your past adoptions from the last three years at all of your affiliated campuses

Our campus bookstores also feature Faculty Authored Books sections, hosting frequent book signings and events that help highlight the accomplishments of instructors.

 

  • Textbook Rental Program

    Based on student insight, we launched an innovative in-store and online textbook rental program in campuses across the nation. Since the program’s launch, more than 99 percent of students have stated they would rent from their campus bookstore again. But it’s not just students who benefit. Schools that offer rentals keep more textbook dollars on campus. More »

    Registration Integration

    An innovative system that links the school’s course registration site with the bookstore’s website, Registration Integration lets students order textbooks online at the same time they register for courses.

    Cash For Books

    Cash for BooksOur Cash For Books program pays students up to 50 percent for their unwanted textbooks. On many campuses, students can even sell back their textbooks at remote buyback sites across campus at the end of the term.

    FacultyEnlight

    By using extensive faculty insights as the foundation, we are delivering a textbook adoption experience like no other. Our new online community, FacultyEnlightsm, combines search capabilities with product reviews and an engaging way for faculty to discover, adopt and deliver their course materials.

    Course Packs/Custom Textbooks

    Course Packs/Custom TextbooksMany faculty members today prefer creating their own textbooks, integrating their work with existing material. So we’ve partnered with XanEdu – the leading provider of course packs and custom textbooks – to offer attractive compilations, quickly and conveniently.

    NOOK Press™

    NOOK PressWith Barnes & Noble’s NOOK Press™, self-publishing is at your fingertips. The innovative self-publishing platform offers students, faculty and other aspiring authors a fast, easy and free way to write, edit, collaborate and publish the highest quality eBooks and directly distribute them to millions of avid readers. Authors simply upload their books, set a price and track sales activity.

    Distance Education

    Distance LearningOur exceptional e-commerce technology means that the world is your campus. We offer distance education students the same level of service and support as their on-campus student counterparts. So from studying abroad to learning at home in virtual classrooms, off-campus students receive materials as quickly and conveniently as possible.

    Student Financial Aid

    Student Financial AidWe provide a sophisticated, proprietary Student Financial Aid (SFA) platform that leverages cutting-edge technology to simplify the management of financial aid transactions – making it simple for students to get the materials they need and easy for administrators to work with us. Our platform works seamlessly with every financial aid system and all types of financial aid. More »