The looming privatization of UNC's bookstore

Beware the education profiteers:

“They expect to be able to pay us significantly more than we receive from the store now,” Fajack said.

Follett also made promises about buying back books, stocking used books and implementing a cheaper textbook rental system. “We estimate that we could save your students several million dollars a year on course material,” the proposal said.

First of all, the primary function of that student bookstore should be to provide already overly-expensive textbooks to students at the cheapest price possible, to avoid compounding their growing student loan debt. What the University gets back (or kicked-back) is a secondary concern. And just a cursory bit of research (you know, like universities are supposed to do) brings into question both Follett's ability and desire to do either:

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