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Custom Notebooks for University Marketing
Put your school’s brand in students’ hands, literally. Scout Books custom notebooks are pocket-sized, durable, and built for campus life. Use them to welcome new students, engage alumni, support faculty, or stand out at recruitment events.
Choose lined, dot grid, or blank pages. Add your logo, campus map, or onboarding content. Every notebook is printed on 100% recycled paper, and our Future Forest program plants one tree per order, making Scout Books tree-positive.
Order samples and see why universities trust Scout Books for branded merchandise that actually gets used.
Willamette University
Founded in 1842, Willamette University is the oldest university in the Western United States, and its commitment to turning big ideas into action hasn’t changed. With students drawn from 43 states and 19 countries, Willamette’s admissions team needed a recruitment piece as distinctive as the school itself.
Scout Books partnered with Willamette to create a custom notebook that puts the university’s story directly in the hands of prospective students. Branded in cardinal and gold, the notebook gives recruits something tangible to take home from campus visits: a place to capture their thoughts, questions, and first impressions of a school that has been shaping Pacific Northwest leaders for over 180 years.
Portland Community College
Founded in 1961, PCC has grown into the largest post-secondary institution in Oregon, serving more than 50,000 students across four campuses and eight centers throughout the Portland metro area.
With a student body as diverse as the city it calls home, PCC turned to Scout Books to create a custom pocket notebook that brings its community together. From club meetings to campus events to classroom note-taking, the notebook gives PCC students a shared, tangible connection to their campus and to each other. Printed on 100% recycled paper and built to go wherever students go, it is a small but meaningful expression of what PCC has always done best: making education feel accessible, welcoming, and rooted in the community.
Stanford University
From its founding in California in the late 19th century until today, Stanford has been infused with the American West’s spirit of openness and possibility. Stanford believe strongly in the mission of higher education, to create and share knowledge and to prepare students to be curious, to think critically, and to contribute to the world.
Scout Books worked with Stanford Arts on a series of “Art is Consequential” notebooks. This striking cover features a design by Connie Ko, and Dot Grid Pages.
Yale University
Since its founding in 1701, Yale University has been dedicated to expanding and sharing knowledge, inspiring innovation, and preserving cultural and scientific information for future generations.
Scout Books partnered with Yale to create a custom notebook that puts the university’s tradition of bold thinking directly into future students’ hands during Bulldog Days, the school’s signature admitted student program. The cover features a map of Yale’s campus in Navy and White, highlighting important buildings and New Haven streets. Designed by Elizabeth Schaefer (Yale College ’26). Go Handsome Dan!
Future Forests
Forests play an important role in climate change and we want to “Plant our Part”. Scout Books is partnering with the National Forest Foundation to plant 1 tree for every single order we receive.
100% Recycled
Scout Books are proudly made with 100% recycled papers. By using recycled paper, we save over 2,500 trees from being cut down every year, and dramatically reduce our carbon footprint and impact on forest ecosystems.
B Corp Certified
Scout Books believes in using business as a force for good. We became certified by B Lab® in 2017 and meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.