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     With the essential support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the leadership of Tennessee State University, the collaborative community of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are designing and deploying strategies to make college more affordable by reducing the cost of course materials.

     The HBCU Affordable Learning Solutions (AL$) Portal for Simmons College of Kentucky provides free access to the tools, technologies, and services to initiate its own AL$ program and learn from their HBCU colleagues. 

     Tennessee State University has partnered with MERLOT (www.merlot.org) and SkillsCommons (www.skillscommons.org) for many years to deliver the free and open educational resources to faculty, staff, students, and their families.

Use and Share the FREE AND OPEN MERLOT LIBRARY with everyone who wishes to learn.

WHAT IS MERLOT?

Become part of a worldwide community of online educators and learners and take advantage of the FREE member services from MERLOT.

MERLOT is a FREE ONLINE LIBRARY with over 100,000 learning materials at your fingertips. You can find MILLIONS of other FREE learning materials.

EXPLORE THE HBCU CULTURAL COLLECTION!

Create your own personalized library with MERLOT's Bookmark Collections tool.  IT IS EASY AND FREE.

  The goal of MERLOT-HBCU Ambassadors is to empower everyone to develop their talents with the use of the FREE learning resources in MERLOT.  HBCU faculty, staff, and students can become MERLOT-HBCU Ambassadors by learning to use and share with others, how they can use MERLOT to meet their teaching and learning needs with free educational resources, practices, and services. 

The HBCU AL$ Community has developed a library of planning templates, training materials, and tools to help your campus develop its customized AL$ program aligned with your campus culture and capabilities.