• TRUSU  (represented by Jason Cruse, Chriss Blois, and Sierra Rae)
• Office of Indigenous Education (represented by Paul Michel and Tina Matthew)
• Library (represented by Brenda Smith and Tania Gottschalk)
• Office of Research and Graduate Studies (represented by Sukh Matonovich)
• Communications and Visual Arts (represented by Shannon Smyrl)
• CELT (was represented by Catharine Dishke)
• Open Learning (represented by Don Poirier and Paul Martin)
• Learning Technology and Innovation (represented by Brian Lamb)
• OEWG (Open Educational Working Group, a cross-campus group of faculty, staff, and students interested in open education) membership (represented by Brenna Clarke Gray and Marie Bartlett)

• The need for research faculty to be supported in developing open research plans and robust knowledge mobilization strategies in alliance with Tri-Council agency goals, and support for execution on these plans.
• The need for high quality, low-cost learning materials in order to best support TRU learners and eliminate achievement gaps, particularly for students from equity-seeking groups.
• The need for these materials to be localized, Indigenized, and internationalized as appropriate for the intercultural learning community at TRU.
• The need for faculty and staff to be supported in developing these resources as well as maintaining and updating them over time.
• The need to develop more high quality experiential learning, employment, and research publication avenues for TRU undergraduate and graduate students.

• New research faculty need support in developing open research and knowledge mobilization strategies as there are varying levels of preparedness for this work in doctoral programs and it is increasingly a requirement of public external funding agencies.  Knowing this work is supported at TRU more effectively than elsewhere is a recruitment benefit.
• The TRU Open Press also commits to the next generation of inclusive excellence by providing experiential learning and on-the-job training in research and publication to students.
• Innovative commitments to research and scholarship include pathways for teaching-based and scholarly teaching research that are fully recognized as peer-reviewed contributions to their respective fields. An Open Press with a wide mandate to inclusively publish here through a rigorous peer review and editorial framework would be a significant leadership role.

• Open educational resources that eliminate costs for students improve the material circumstances of students from equity-seeking groups and ensure day-one access to classroom materials. By systematizing the development of these resources in-house and establishing a process for development, revision, iteration, and reuse, we can ensure the materials are of high quality.
• Building and adapting these materials in-house also offers the opportunity to localize, Indigenize, and internationalize our learning materials, making them more directly relevant to the cultural needs of our learners.
• Through in-house expertise in universal design for learning and the development of interactive, multi-modal learning materials, we can address the academic needs of more learners from more diverse backgrounds.

• TRU's local, national, and global leadership in open education is a significant differentiator for our institution (for example, in 2021 TRU faculty and staff were involved in three award-winning projects at the OEGlobal Open Education Awards for Excellence). This work can grow with support.
• The TRU Open Press is designed to provide meaningful experiential learning opportunities for learners in relevant disciplines and to teach students valuable skills in mobilizing knowledge to communities; specifically will work directly with the Department of Communications and Visual Art to develop experiential learning opportunities in communications design, marketing, new media, and public relations for learners in the Bachelor of Communications degree program; we will also work directly with TRUSU to staff student researcher and developer roles on the team.
• The TRU Open Press makes materials created at TRU available to community stakeholders and trains students in the value of communicating research widely. As a research university embedded in its regional and cultural communities, TRU needs to develop infrastructure to share knowledge widely.

• Establishment of Board, hiring of project manager and editor.
• Total inventory of open projects in process at TRU.
• Updated total inventory of OER in use at TRU.
• Marketing and communications to campus about supports for open publishing and knowledge mobilization via the TRU Open Press.
• A minimum of three completed projects and a minimum of six total projects underway with a total minimum impact of 120 students and 6 faculty.

• Update inventories on an annual basis.
• Marketing and communication within TRU, provincially, nationally, and internationally for completed projects, including dissemination at conferences and submission to repositories.
• A minimum of five completed projects and a minimum of ten total projects underway with a total minimum impact of 200 students and 10 faculty.

• Update inventories on an annual basis.
• Marketing and communication within TRU, provincially, nationally, and internationally for completed projects, including dissemination at conferences and submission to repositories.
• A minimum of five completed projects and a minimum of ten total projects underway with a total minimum impact of 200 students and 10 faculty.
• Secure ongoing funding for TRU Open Press.

• Open Education Working Group, 2 x year
• Senate Teaching and Learning Committee, 2 x year
• Senate Research Committee, 2 x year
• TRUSU, 2 x year
• Faculty Councils, 1 x year
• Senate Academic Planning and Affairs Committee, 1 x year
• Senate Qelmúcw Affairs Committee. 1 x year
• Senate Student Success Committee, 1 x year

• BCcampus statistics. TRU is a leader in both number of open textbook adoptions and student savings.
• Library's OER and ZTC (Zero Textbook Cost) Inventory back to Fall 2020 compiled from Banner, Bookstore, and BCcampus. Example: Winter 2022 Inventory

1. Open publishing expertise on multiple platforms (texts, journals, web projects).
2. Open data storage.
3. Expertise in learning object development in multiple modalities.
4. Expertise in knowledge mobilization strategies including scholarly blogging and podcasting.

By hiring students and connecting with faculty who may not already know about the existing resources, we will expand both capacity and demand for these services.

The use of the TRU Open Press by departments like Communications and Visual Art to offer more consistency in materials across first-year courses will easily scale to any other departments who wish to engage.

This project will have a life beyond the three-year cycle of the ISP funding, and a key task for the project manager is to secure continued funding, including from external sources. We believe that the TRU Open Press will become critical scholarly infrastructure for the entire TRU community as we step into our future phase as a research university.