Consumer Information

Rights Reserved
The college reserves the right to change any provision or requirement of this catalog, including academic calendar dates, tuition and fees pursuant to law, the rules of the State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education or the Colorado Community College System or college policy.

The college reserves the right to cancel any course or program described in this catalog, at any time, without notice, and to change any other aspect of any course or program.

The college reserves the right to require a student to withdraw at any time for health or other reasons, pursuant to appropriate policies and procedures, and to impose sanctions, according to established policy. Any admission based on false statements or documents may be grounds for dismissal and loss of all credit for work that may have been completed.

Voter Registration
Trinidad State College supports and advocates that students register to vote. Voter registration forms are available on the Colorado Secretary of State website at https://www.sos.state.co.us/voter/pages/pub/olvr/verifyNewVoter.xhtml

There is also a paper form that can be selected and mailed to the Secretary of State’s office. The URL for the paper form is:
https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/vote/VoterRegFormEnglish.pdf

Students have three ways in which they can register to vote:

• Submitting an application through the mail, a voter registration agency, a local driver’s license examination facility, or the on-line voter registration system through the eighth day prior to an election; except that, if the eighth day before an election is a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, the elector is permitted to register on the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday;
• Appearing in-person at the elector’s county clerk and recorder’s office at any time during which registration is permitted at the office; or
• Appearing in-person at a voter service and polling center at any time during which the voter service and polling center is open, including on Election Day.

To register on campus, please contact the Special Populations office in the Valley Campus Welcome Center or in the Library on the Trinidad Campus. For more information about voter registration call 719-846-5567 or 719-589-7067.

Title IX Compliance Officer
TSC does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, or disability in admission or access to, or treatment, or employment in its educational programs or activities. Inquiries may be referred to:

• TSC Title IX Human Resources Director
  Trinidad Campus
  Berg Building
  Trinidad, Colorado 81082
  (719) 846-5538
• TSC Title IX Human Resources Director
  Valley Campus
  Room 112 Main Building
  Alamosa, Colorado, 81011
  (719) 589-7050,
• or Director of Affirmative Action for the Colorado Community College System
  9101 East Lowry Boulevard
  Denver, CO 80230
  (303) 595-1552,
• or to the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education,
  Region VIII, Cesar E. Chavez Memorial Building
  1244 North Speer Blvd., Suite 310
  Denver, CO 80204
  phone: 303-844-5695.
  Email: ocr.denver@ed.gov.

Student Bill of Rights
The General Assembly of the State of Colorado implemented the Student Bill of Rights (C.R.S. 23-1-125) to assure that students enrolled in public institutions of higher education have the following rights:

a. Students should be able to complete their Associate of Arts and Associate of Science degree programs in no more than sixty credit hours or their baccalaureate programs in no more than one hundred twenty credit hours unless there are additional degree requirements recognized by the commission;
b. A student can sign a two-year or four-year graduation agreement that formalizes a plan for that student to obtain a degree in two or four years, unless there are additional degree requirements recognized by the commission;
c. Students have a right to clear and concise information concerning which courses must be completed successfully to complete their degrees;
d. Students have a right to know which courses are transferable among the state public two-year and four-year institutions of higher education;
e. Students, upon completion of core general education courses, regardless of the delivery method, should have those courses satisfy the core course requirements of all Colorado public institutions of higher education;
f. Students have a right to know if courses from one or more public higher education institutions satisfy the students’ degree requirements;
g. A student’s credit for the completion of the core requirements and core courses shall not expire for ten years from the date of initial enrollment and be transferable.