Z-Degree Team Wins CO Dept. of Higher Education's 2025 Exceptional Open Educational Resources Project Award

Published: June 26, 2025 By

Joshua French receiving the award

The Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, CU Denver's Z-degree team won the Colorado Department of Higher Education's 2025 Exceptional Open Educational Resources Project award for its work on creating zero textbook paths for bachelor's of science in mathematics, mathematics minor, and the data science certificate.

The Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, CU Denver's Z-degree team is made of Troy Butler, Joshua French, Adam Spiegler, Stephen Hartke, Yaning Liu, Pamela Whitten, Robert Rostermundt, Daniel Klie, Yongxia Kuang.

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The team even got a shoutout in Governor Jared Polis’s Zero Textbook Cost Challenge.

Congrats team! Well done! Your hard work on ZTC and OER and Z-degree to reduce the cost of education and provide tailored high quality material to support our students' learning is appreciated by all our community.