Trinidad State College to host Colorado OER Roadshow and campus events

Trinidad State College hosted the Colorado OER Council’s OER Roadshow on Friday, Feb. 20, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. on the Trinidad Campus, bringing program-level emphasis on $0-textbook options and open educational resources to students and faculty. Trinidad State’s events calendar lists the stop as “OER Roadshow at Trinidad State College” for Feb. 20 at 10:00 a.m. on the Trinidad Campus.

The campus events page teases the roadshow with the exact line: “Do you want to innovate your classroom?Are you interested in $0 textbook options for your...” HigherEd Colorado, which coordinates statewide summaries of the Colorado OER Council roadshow, notes the roadshow stops “are free to attend and open to all staff, students and members of the campus community,” a program-level detail that applies to Trinidad’s recorded stop.

HigherEd Colorado described the roadshow as a multi-campus series that already visited Adams State University, Western Colorado University, Colorado Mountain College, and Morgan Community College, and planned rural stops including Trinidad State College, Otero College, and Lamar Community College in spring 2026. The roadshow highlights successful zero-textbook-cost programs such as the University of Colorado’s zero textbook cost nursing degree and Colorado Northwestern Community College’s zero textbook cost associates of arts and sciences degrees as examples of models the Council showcases to local instructors and administrators.

The roadshow has generated concrete outcomes at prior stops, HigherEd Colorado reports: “Impact from the first campus visits are already being realized with Colorado Mountain College instructors committing to converting 15 credits of courses to OER in the week following the event.” HigherEd Colorado also cataloged presenter examples at other stops, including OER Council member Nancy A. Henke, Textbook Affordability Librarian for the University of Northern Colorado, presenting on copyright and open licensing at Western Colorado University, and OER Council Member Dr. Medora Huseby, Associate Professor Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology at Colorado State University, presenting on open pedagogy at Colorado Mountain College.

On campus the week of Feb. 20, Trinidad State scheduled student wellness programming adjacent to the roadshow. The college’s calendar lists “Trojan Power Hours” at 11:00 a.m. on Feb. 20 and again at 11:00 a.m. on Feb. 23 on both campuses, with the events page noting: “Take a break and recharge during Trojan Power Hours! Join us in the Campus Workout Room...”

Campus materials include additional context about Trinidad State’s institutional profile: the college was named a Semifinalist and Top 20 Community College in the nation in 2025 and “again makes the first cut for the 2027 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence,” and the Valley Campus is described as located in downtown Alamosa, serving the 8,000-square-mile San Luis Valley with a commuter campus and small class sizes.

An item labeled “Hilinski’s Hope, Tyler” appears in an internal list of events but Trinidad State’s public calendar and HigherEd Colorado summaries do not provide date, time, location, or description for that listing. HigherEd Colorado says the OER Council will continue engaging rural institutions with roadshow visits and targeted virtual OER trainings in spring 2026, indicating further opportunities for Trinidad State faculty to pursue course conversions and cost-saving measures for students.