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Boston College Selects Follett
Aug 1, 2008
August 1, 2008 (Oak Brook, IL): Follett Higher Education Group announced today that they have been selected to manage the Boston College Bookstore effective August 1, 2008. An advisory committee consisting of administrators, faculty, and students selected Follett as their partner through an intensive evaluation. Follett was identified as the company that had the experience and resources to best serve the Boston College's community. Follett has committed to providing "first-class" service to our students, faculty, and employees with a main focus on increasing the availability of used books to our students and improving the book ordering process for faculty. Follett will also create a new customer friendly bookstore in the new Stokes Commons. The quality of customer service, especially textbook services for faculty and students was our primary evaluation criterion, commented, Peter McKenzie, Financial Vice President and Treasurer for Boston College. Follett will bring to this endeavor not only operational experience and expertise but also a value system consistent with BCs mission as a Jesuit university. Follett also has long term positive relationships with 15 other Jesuit universities where they provide bookstore services. Follett will invite all current bookstore employees to remain with the bookstore and provide additional training and development opportunities specifically designed to enhance their retail and customers skills. We are privileged to have been selected to provide bookstore services to Boston College, commented Thomas Christopher, president, Follett Higher Education Group. We are fully committed to using all our resources to provide the products and services that will enhance the academic mission of the college, support campus life, and uphold the colleges Jesuit and social values. Follett Higher Education Group (www.fheg.follett.com) Follett Higher Education Group of Oak Brook, Illinois, is the leading provider of bookstore services and the foremost supplier of used books in North America. Follett services five million students and over 400,000 faculty members through more than 800 stores. Follett also services more than 1,600 independent campus stores with its wholesale services, and has the most visited ecommerce collegiate website, efollett.com, that provides services and products through a network of more than 900 campus stores. Boston College (www.bc.edu) Boston College is one of the oldest Jesuit, Catholic universities in the United States. U.S. News and World Report ranks Boston College 35th among national universities. Boston College confers more than 4,000 degrees annually in more than 50 fields of study through 7 schools and colleges.
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