The Bachelor’s Degree: A Human Operating System

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrosows...ng-system/

What skills do you think people will need to keep updating throughout their careers?

I'm attending SNHU for a BS Geoscience, about half or slightly less will be Sophia/Study credits to make my graded coursework at least 60 credits.

I would love to get into the University of Utah's Masters/PhD in Geography afterwards, and was wondering if anyone knows if a degree hacked degree can actually get into competitive grad school.

Thoughts?

Hi everyone, I just wanted to state that I have been accepted to law school in Florida. Without going into too many specifics, I was accepted what is considered the highest ranked school in the state per US News. 
I graduated from UMPI last year with a 3.95 GPA. I was able to do alternative credit with Sophia and 75 credits at UMPI (I did a minor as well) in less than a year while being on the deans list for 3 semesters. While law school was always a dream, I was not able to attend college prior to finding Cliff Stumme's youtube channel (I'm not naming it in case its against the rules). I graduated from UMPI with 3k in student loans. 

I did the LSAT twice and my highest score was 160, while my lowest was 156. I believe I could have scored higher the second time but I was ill when I retook the exam and could not concentrate (thyroid issues). My LSAC GPA was weighted at over 4.10. I applied to 3 schools in Florida and two in my state, and was waitlisted at one Florida school and accepted at my reach school just last week. 
I was recently married and we have children and while this move is challenging we're excited to move because it has been my dream for over 20 years. I have already accepted and started the process of moving including putting our house on the market and finding a home in FL. Financially it might be a bit tight but we do have some savings, equity and family to assist. I did not get a scholarship as I was slightly below the schools medians in terms of LSAT score but law school will cost me about 90K in total with all factors considered (changing to instate next year etc).

I can submit proof to moderators if need and if anyone has any questions I can answer when I can.
I had to create a new account to post this because the password reset option did not work.

I completed the IBM AI Developer Professional Certificate from Coursera and get it evaluated by TESU last month, and being granted the following credits:


CAP-3530 Web Design and Development I
CIS-4999 Special Topics Comp Info Syst
CMP-4510 Artificial Intelligence
CMP-4710 Software Engineering
DSI-4999 Special Topics Data Sci/Analyt

CIS and CMP courses count as BACS AOS Electives UL credits, I am not sure about CAP and DSI though.

https://catalog.umpi.edu/preview_program...turnto=621
PLEASE NOTE: This program will be availabe in the YourPace modality starting Fall 2 session, October 26, 2026.

In case you don't know, UMPI has expanded their YourPace Math courses catalog since this spring, it seems like a BS in CS is coming soon as well:
https://catalog.umpi.edu/content.php?cat...navoid=603 
[*]•  MAT 104 - Quantitative Reasoning
[*]•  MAT 117 - College Algebra
[*]•  MAT 121 - Pre-Calculus
[*]•  MAT 131 - Calculus I
[*]•  MAT 132 - Calculus II
[*]•  MAT 140 - Mathematics for Business
[*]•  MAT 166 - Concept-Based Mathematics for Elementary Teachers
[*]•  MAT 201 - Probability and Statistics I
[*]•  MAT 202 - Probability and Statistics II
[*]•  MAT 231 - Calculus III
[*]•  MAT 253 - Discrete Mathematics
[*]•  MAT 274 - Linear Algebra

I got fed an ad for Claremont Lincoln, a regionally accredited, private nonprofit online school based in California. "Claremont Lincoln University (CLU) uses a Course-Based Cost Model where undergraduate students pay $270 per course, bringing the total cost of a 60-credit bachelor's completion program to $5,40"

Notably, this is significantly lower cost per RA class than ASU's Universal Learner (formerly Earned Admission) classes. I'm not sure how much flexibility or choice you can have in which classes you can take or when, but this program or if possible, individual classes, might meet the needs of forum users so I thought I'd share. When I get a little time, I will look into figuring out if I can carve out the time and money to enroll as a guinea pig to report on flexibility and process.

Note: I have no affiliation with this university and am not endorsing them nor selling services. Sharing for informational purposes only. 

The English and the French get  one more chance at some hardware.

I would love to have the English coach reciting the Henry V speech right how.

The World  Third Place Match is today at 5:00 Eastern time from Miami's Hard Rock Stadium

Looking forward to the final tomorrow.

I was just browsing the SDC->TESU equivalency website and noticed that the course Biology 1 WITH Lab (which our son recently completed) now transfers as 4 LL credits in BIO-1010 and BIO-1999, but gets NO LAB credit at TESU.

What's up with that? Disappointing.

PS: Physics with lab and chemistry with lab still get lab credit, but Microbiology with lab is now "Microorganisms" (NO LAB) and Anatomy and Physiology with Lab is "Biology of Human Concerns" (NO LAB) when you transfer it to TESU.

The medium-residency hybrid PsyD in Clinical Psychology from Capella University is now an applicant for American Psychological Association initial accreditation, and the similarly scheduled PhD in Clinical Psychology from Saybrook University is now listed by the APA as intending to apply. Let me use the term “medium-residency” for a degree program that uses online education heavily and isn’t traditionally full-time on campus, but that has significantly more on-campus time than most programs called “low-residency.”

There has long been only one hybrid doctorate accredited by the APA, the PhD in Clinical Psychology from Fielding Graduate University. Fielding has long described its medium-residency format with meetings at regional centers not as distance learning or online but “distributed.”

There are a handful of APA programs with distinctive scheduling options (and another) that make their on-campus programs a bit more accessible to long-distance commuters, but the APA doctorate universe has been basically full-time on-campus except for Fielding.

Another interesting situation is that at least two universities now have both an on-campus APA doctorate in psychology, and a separate hybrid or online doctorate that’s non-APA but that teaches health service psychology and is designed for psychology licensure in a state that allows it: The Chicago School (the flagship of the same private university system as Saybrook), and National University (NU inherited an APA on-campus PsyD in Clinical Psychology when JFK University merged into NU, and a separate non-APA PhD in Psychology, specializing in Counseling Psychology designed for California licensure when Northcentral University merged into NU; now both degrees are granted by NU).

The APA only accredits programs in “health service psychology,” most of which are titled Clinical Psychology, Counseling Psychology, and/or School Psychology. Programs such as Industrial/Organizational Psychology preparing business consultants, or General Psychology preparing professors and researchers, are outside the APA’s scope of accreditation, and outside most of the acts that define the practice of a licensed psychologist. Liberty University recently achieved APA accreditation on contingency for its on-campus PsyD in Clinical Psychology. Liberty offers an online PhD in Psychology, but it’s in areas of psychology outside those health service provider roles.

Meanwhile at the master’s level, the APA is expanding its pilot program to accredit master’s degrees to a regular part of its activity, and APA members are discussing proposed changes at the master’s level to their model state practice act. Proposed revisions posted by the APA define licenses at the doctoral level for Licensed Psychologist and at the master’s level for Licensed Practitioner of Psychology.

At a recent count 21 states and state-level jurisdictions (and 4 Canadian provinces) licensed eligible applicants with a master’s in health service psychology to a title such as Licensed Practitioner of Psychology or Psychological Associate. Of the remaining states, I believe some will allow a master’s in health service psychology to qualify for a Licensed Counselor type title. The Counseling profession has generally been moving to require master’s categorically in Counseling, and sometimes specifically CACREP accredited, but not every state has tightened their rules in those respects.

Capella’s low-residency MS in Clinical Psychology, Clinical Counseling track was one of the first master’s programs accredited by the APA – a surprise, and a good look for Capella. Note that this accreditation doesn’t extend to other Capella master’s in or around psychology, including their FlexPath CBE programs. All the FlexPath master’s in psychology are in non-licensure, non-health-service parts of psychology.

Others master’s programs in the first crop of APA accrediteds and applicants also seem to use some hybrid modalities.

The APA first accredited Fielding with its model of distributed regional residency intensives supplemented by distance learning in 1991. Since then – despite the explosion of online and hybrid programs in other mental health and health professions – for a long time there was no apparent movement toward online learning in APA land, excluding temporary adjustments for Covid.

Now we see movement on several fronts.

There’s an easy narrative that the APA was too stodgy or protectionist all that time. I’m not sure. They have accredited Fielding since 1991, and they’ve accredited numerous “professional schools” outside traditional universities, such as Alliant, Antioch, and the Chicago School, despite those being contentious in the profession, and sometimes high-volume in the number of students they train.

Maybe the APA just hadn’t received a good application for a new hybrid program since 1991. Maybe the market for “licensure degree in psychology, and hybrid, and APA, but not Fielding” wasn’t large or specific enough to attract new entrants. Some prospective students would accept Fielding despite their high price. Some would accept on-campus. Some would accept a non-APA hybrid or online psychology program like Saybrook or California Southern, licensable in some friendly states. Some would accept an adjacent field like counseling with a master’s-level license. But now, prospective new entrants.

Taco Bell linked to cyclospora outbreak in 5 states
https://apnews.com/article/cyclospora-le...2ae8e8d0de

It takes up to 2 weeks to show symptoms.  I think I had their chicken cantina bowl within 2 weeks, something for me to look forward to.