As of February, 2024, the decision letter states, "If you have attended college after graduating from high school, then you are not required to submit official high school transcripts."

The First 3-Year Degree Programs Win Approval (Inside Higher Ed)

Quote:Three-year bachelor’s degrees are coming to Brigham Young University–Idaho and affiliated Ensign College next year [2024], following approval of the truncated programs by an accrediting body. By eliminating electives, BYU-Idaho will bring five three-year programs online in April: applied business management, family and human services, software development, applied health, and professional studies. Ensign will offer two such programs: communication and information technology. [...]

The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities approved the seven programs—each of which requires between 90 and 94 credit hours instead of the standard 120—at its June meeting and sent a formal approval letter late last month.

Quote:American Public University System (APUS) today announced it will offer an accelerated Bachelor of Science Degree in Cybersecurity, in connection with the College in 3 Exchange. Students can register for the three-year bachelor's degree starting in April 2024. [...]

"We are excited to be among the first universities to offer a 90-credit bachelor's degree under this innovative approach with the College in 3 Exchange," said Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, [...]

The accelerated degree has been approved by both the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), an institutional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. [...]

Under the accelerated program, students will take the same required cybersecurity courses they would in a traditional program – with the same program outcomes. Only electives have been eliminated from the three-year, 90-credit program.  

https://community.fema.gov/PreparednessC...et-15eb6=2

Make sure you're on the Take the Online Training tab

Watch video (about 32 minutes)

Scroll down, click on get certificate

Survey pops up but you can skip most of it, click Skip Survey and Get Certificate at the bottom.

Will require you to fill out the following section even with the skip: How would you like your name to appear on your certificate?

Done

Hi.  I just finished the Cybersecurity masters at WGU.  Might want to teach/adjunct different topics in the future.  Other than a full masters per topic, what are some clever (hopefully inexpensive) ways to acquire the 18 credit hours required to teach?  Is regional accreditation required (vs NA, State, etc...)?  It looks like edX doesn't award until you've been accepted in a full program-so dead end.  The next idea is Graduate Certificates -thoughts? I'm thinking the UCLA Extension Post-MBA. General topics I like and could possibly teach: Technology/Psychology/Philosophy/Religion-Spirituality/Business.
I know there's little or no money from the job (esp in the beginning).  This would be more a labor of love or retirement thing.  Probably won't entertain K-12.
Thank you

So, I am currently taking Bio 105. I know, I know... I have read everything after doing so. I just started on 1/29, but I haven't gotten passed Milestone 1 now. I thought this would be easy because I work in a high school and have pushed into several Biology classes (we have even done the owl pellet dissection). But I am worried that I won't have the time to finish. My Milestone 1 has been returned twice. I'm also concerned about this pictures of 10 animals part. I live in southern California and you don't want to be taking pictures of the animals around here, you want to run... (coyotes, skunks, rattlesnakes, mountain lions, lizards...). Any helpful advice? Not sure I can drop this class and do Sophia... I was also willing to take this class because my employer will pay a stipend the more credits I earn, but only from regionally accredited universities, not something like Sophia.

Thanks for any help!

Hello,

I’ll try to keep it short and sweet. Was never into college and focused on working an actual job. I’m at the point now that I want to get at least an Associates degree as a checkbox for potential new job. I may eventually get a Bachelors, but my priority right now is to get an Associates as quick as possible. I researched heavily on this topic and it appears that Pierpont AAS and Sophia is the way to go. I understand that Pierpont has gradations in May and August so I’m hoping I can achieve this by May 2024. Including some information below.

Your Location: Texas, USA
Your Age: 35
What kind of degree do you want?: AAS
Current Regional Accredited Credits: 0
Current ACE, CLEP, or NCCRS Credits: 0
Any certifications or military experience? No
Budget: No real budget, but if I can get it cheaper that would be better.
Commitments: Full time job
Study timeline: As quick as possible. Hoping to meet the Pierpont May graduation so I don’t have to wait for the next graduation.

I’ve read the Wiki and found some great information. If I understood correctly, I’ll need 15 credits in general studies, 1 credit ASU course, and the remainder in electives, for a total of 60 credits. There was a section in the Wiki that mentioned 15 credits for a Google IT Professional course. Is this a faster and easier way to achieve the 15 credits? I believe I read somewhere that I need to avoid Touchstones because it takes forever to grade. My main goal is to finish as quickly as I can before the May graduation deadline and hoping someone here can provide a list of courses I need to take and preferably in which order.

Okay, so maybe I'm just not understanding the citation guidelines and I'm completely at fault here, which is a reasonable option, but I cannot figure out what Prof. Matthews wants. I've read posts about her and how she wants you to follow the rubric and guidelines to a T. I've read that for some she can be a real nightmare, and for others she's fine. Despite knowing that, and despite getting her as my ENG professor, I've tried my best to keep an open mind. It's going on the fourth week and she still says my first milestone has so many citation errors.

She says that I need to remove all my headers and replace these with transition statements that one, let's my paragraphs flow from one into the next (okay, fair) but then two, its an important way for her to determine originality in my writing? You need me to get rid of my headers for you to determine if the rest of my essay has originality, and not, I don't know, using the rest of my essay to determine originality?? Maybe I'm overreacting about this but it feels very nit-picky from her. 

She doesn't like my use of full-length titles, believes it to be ineffective - and I'm just whinging here - but I use titles that to meet the requirement "identify six scholarly sources within the disciplinary areas written in the topics discussed that you have found using the library’s academic databases" (Matthews para. 1) <- did I cite this in MLA-9 correctly? I guess she wants a more subtle, scholarly way of referencing the sources?

Other more specific issues are fair since I didn't understand some parts of the MLA-9 guidelines and I just winged it and it didn't work.

I also got very passive-aggressive vibes from her second feedback. She began it using my full first name, even though I have a preferred nickname (I don't know if profs can see the preferred nickname), and then said my revision was a "mild improvement". 

At this point I'm re-writing my entire essay at 2 am because she's gotten me so stressed out that I'm not going to pass her class since there are two more milestones, and that I will have better chances taking the Sophia equivalent that everyone says to stay away from.

Look, I'm not exactly looking for advice on what to do because clearly I still have a lot to do for my milestone that I've "mildly" improved upon. I'm working on it. I just needed to rant a bit - sorry if this is not the place to do it. Maybe I'm just not understanding the instructions of this milestone correctly and have spent a bunch of time (that I now know was wasted) writing the wrong thing cause I got the wrong idea. 

Ignore this if you don't think it's relevant, I'm just very frustrated right now.

Your Location: New York, United States.
Your Age: 29
What kind of degree do you want?: Pierpont BOG degree. I want to graduate in May 2024.  
Current Regional Accredited Credits: None

Current ACE, CLEP, or NCCRS Credits: These are things like Study, Sophia, InstantCert InstantCredit, CLEP, Straighterline, Davar etc

Sophia Credits: 40

Art History I-3Cr
Art History II-3C
Conflict Resolution-3Cr
Environmental Science-3Cr
Intro to Business-3Cr
Intro to Ethics-3Cr
Intro to Information tech-3Cr
Intro to nutrition-3Cr
Intro to Web Dev-3Cr
Macroeconomics-3Cr
Microeconomics-3Cr
Project Management-3Cr
Visual Communications-3Cr
Essential of Managing Conflict-1Cr

Any certifications or military experience? None

Budget: Money is low. Just enough for Sophia, ASU 1 Credit, Coursera Google IT cert
Commitments: None at the moment.
Dedicated time to study: 24/7
Timeline: Want to apply for graduation by March 15.
Tuition assistance/reimbursement: None

Please provide any relevant details you may have that may help us determine a option or path for you to investigate: 

What I would like to find out is even if the graduation application deadline is March 15 can I register and apply to graduate without all the required credits and be able to turn things in later on after the deadline to meet requirements.
If it wont be possible I rather not spend the money since I have very little. These are the things I have left to meet the requirements for BOG.


ASU-1 Credit in Progress
Intro to Chemistry-3cr in Progress
Intro to Satistics-3cr in Progress
Coursera Google IT Support cert-12cr in Progress
College Readiness-3cr Not Started

I believe this would meet all requirement and equal 62 credits total. Just don't know if its worth it to spend money to register at Pierpont now and send transcripts over if I wont meet requirements before March 15 deadline seeing as I haven't registered or sent anything to Pierpont yet.
I will definitely have everything completed before May.

I know this source is not discussed much on DegreeForum, but I had the link saved from a while back and looked at it today. It mentions on their about page in the accreditation section that they are voluntarily giving up their Regional Accreditation status on June 30, 2024. While CalCampus is not cheap, they do have some courses that are a little harder to find solo, so could still be a valid source for now.

http://www.calcampus.com/about.htm
http://www.calcampus.com/list.htm

New Managerial Accounting class offered at Sophia. Wonder if this would transfer into TESU as it would be a good idea for those CIS majors. I'll attempt it shortly and post back.