The Used Textbook Association board of directors voted to dissolve the trade association by the end of the month. The UTA was founded in August 2006 by a group of textbook wholesalers to provide the college store industry with an independent voice on issues of textbook affordability and advocacy at local, state, and national levels.
Since its founding, the UTA has engaged in various textbook legislative matters, particularly during the renewal in 2008 of the federal Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA). After several years of funding and managing the association, in 2011 the founders turned the association over to its college store members. “It was a difficult but necessary decision the board had to make,” said Stacey L. Douglas, UTA executive director, “but the support and funds simply were not there to continue operating the association and pursuing its mission.”
