The CU Succeed program is a unique partnership that exists between the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS) and selected high schools that gives high school students the opportunity to earn college credits prior to graduating from high school.

Here are some of the benefits of the CU Succeed program:

• Accessibility and convenience: Courses are offered at your high school during regular school periods.
• Low tuition:Tuition for CU Succeed courses is substantially lower than that charged for the same course on the UCCS campus.
• Concurrent high school and college credit: You can earn college credits at the same time you satisfy high school requirements, saving time and money in completing a college degree.

Curriculum, Faculty, and Grading Policies

The courses have the same content as the on-campus university courses, require the same quantity and quality of work, and are evaluated by the same high standards.

CU Succeed program courses are taught by University-qualified high school teachers who hold an honorarium faculty appointment in the Department of Mathematics at UCCS.

The grading policy for students enrolled in CU Succeed courses is virtually identical to the grading policy for students enrolled in all mathematics courses on the UCCS campus.  The course must be taken for a letter grade.  (The University employs a PLUS/MINUS grading system, where, for example, a B corresponds to 3.0 points on a 4.0 scale and a B+ corresponds to 3.3 points.)

Once enrolled in a CU Succeed  course, a student has until the drop deadline September 11, 2008 (Fall 2008 courses) to disenroll from the course without penalty. In this scenario, there will be no record of the course on the student's CU transcript. The student will receive a full refund. (The exception to this rule is for students enrolling in BC Calculus. There will be no opportunity to disenroll from the Calculus I portion of the course. A BC Calculus student may disenroll from the Calculus 2 portion of the course and receive a refund for the Calculus 2 portion if the disenroll is completed by the drop deadline.)

If a student chooses to do so, he/she may Withdraw from a CU Succeed course on or before the withdraw deadline. The student's transcript will indicate a 'W' for the course. Such a mark does not count towards the student's grade point average. There is NO refund of the tuition in this scenario. (BC Calculus students may only withdraw from the Calculus 2 portion of the course).

If a student is still enrolled in a CU Succeed course past the officially posted Withdraw date, then the student will receive a grade for the course. Students who for any reason do not complete the appropriate course work will earn an 'F' on their transcript for the course.  A student may disenroll or withdraw from a CU Succeed course without disenrolling or withdrawing from the corresponding high school course.

Grades earned in CU Succeed courses become a part of a student's University of Colorado academic record.  Therefore, it is extremely important that a student earn at least a 'C' grade in CU Succeed courses.  A grade of C-minus or below could prevent a student from being admitted to any campus in the University of Colorado system, regardless of the student's high school GPA or college entrance exam scores, as a C- corresponds to a GPA of 1.70, and students must have a minimum of a 2.0 University GPA to be admitted to or remain in good standing at the University.  STUDENTS WHO ARE AT RISK OF RECEIVING A GRADE LOWER THAN "C" SHOULD CONSIDER WITHDRAWING FROM THE COURSE PRIOR TO THE WITHDRAWAL DEADLINE!

Transfer and Applicability of Credits

Credits earned in a CU Succeed course are regular University of Colorado at Colorado Springs credits that are recorded on an official University of Colorado transcript as follows: Precalculus - Math 105 - Elementary Functions for Calculus - 4 semester hours; Calculus AB - Math 135 - Calculus I - 4 semester hours; Calculus BC - Math 135 and Math 136 - Calculus 1 and 2 - 8 semester hours; Statistics - Math 281 - 3 semester hours.  This transcript is identical to that issued to students on campus and does not specify that the course was taken off site.

Policies regarding the transfer of credits and the specific ways in which they apply to degree requirements vary from institution to institution.  As such, no institution, including the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, can guarantee that its courses will in all cases be accepted by other institutions, or that these courses will satisfy degree requirements in every academic major. 

Generally speaking, institutions that accept University of Colorado credits will accept the credits earned by completion of a CU Succeed course.  However, some colleges and Universities will not accept courses for which a student also received high school credit and/or are taught exclusively for high school students. Consequently, it is in the best interest of the student to obtain information regarding transfer of credits from the college or university they plan to attend prior to enrolling in a CU Succeed course. The following information should be given to representatives of other institutions when inquiring about transfer of credits earned by the successful completion of a CU Succeed course:

• CU Succeed courses are regular university courses that appear in the University catalogue, not high school courses for which students receive university credit.
• The courses are taught by UCCS honorarium faculty who are appointed by the UCCS Department of Mathematics.
• The courses appear on an official University of Colorado transcript as do other courses of the University. 

For additional information contact the Department of Mathematics at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, phone: 719.255.3035, or send inquiries to:
smichaux@uccs.edu.