ĢƵ Awarded Over $100K from Colorado OER Grant Program
Arapahoe Community College (ĢƵ) has been awarded a combined total of $104,079.96 through the for the 2026-27 cohort 8 cycle.
ĢƵ received $60,945.18 for its proposal titled “To Affordability and Beyond: Colorado Space Institute at ĢƵ Z-Degree Curricula Development”, as well as $43,134.78 for its proposal titled “Incentivizing OER Adoption at ĢƵ”.
The Colorado OER Grant Program, run by the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) and administered by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, funds the adoption and development of OER at institutions across the state. Z-degrees, or Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) degrees, are degree pathways in which students use OER instead of traditional, costly textbooks.
More than 25,000 ĢƵ students have saved over since the fall of 2019.