Student Academic Success Center

The Student Academic Success Center (SASC) is an inclusive learning community that serves 1500+ undergraduate students from student populations underrepresented on our flagship campus. SASC traces its roots back to the original educational opportunity programs created under the Higher Education Act of 1968. The SASC vision is that every student who comes to CU Boulder succeeds here with the mission to promote the academic success, professional achievement, and civic interests of the students who are valued members of SASC and the CU Boulder community. SASC is a committed partner in the CU LEAD Alliance and an engaged affiliate of the Center for Leadership at CU Boulder. 

SASC is grounded in a strengths-based model for student success at CU Boulder, through collaborative support between the McNeill Academic Program,TRiO Student Support Services,Guardian Scholars Program, McNair Scholars Program, and White Antelope Memorial/First Nations Program. Within these programs and across SASC, students hold a variety of leadership roles that include: Undergraduate Instructional Assistants in SASC classrooms; Academic Peer Advisors for student academic support; Peer Mentors for academic, professional, and leadership interests; and Program Lead positions. Additionally, now going into its sixth year, SASC has partnered with Education Abroad to offer a spring Global Intensive for students to travel during spring break to the Dominican Republic, serving both to represent CU Boulder abroad and as ambassadors for SASC students to study abroad. CU Boulder SASC alum have also contributed greatly to student success, most recently through a President’s DEI grant that enhances the capacity for current students to connect with SASC alums who are working in diverse fields – focusing especially on non-STEM majors and career pathways. 

While SASC functions as a critical educational opportunity umbrella on the CU Boulder campus, it is a community of practice that is – and has been – uniquely positioned to significantly contribute to the diversity, equity, and inclusion goals of the university, in which SASC student leaders continue making a mark.