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Colorado Department of Higher Education, 2025
The Colorado Re-Engaged (CORE) initiative, created under House Bill 21-1330, allows a four-year institution of higher education (IHE) to award an associate degree to former students who meet eligibility requirements -- including having already earned at least 70 credit hours before stopping-out of a bachelor's program. Under HB21-1330, each…
Descriptors: College Programs, Program Implementation, Associate Degrees, Stopouts
Boden, Carrie J. – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2019
In the 21st century economic landscape, many argue the importance of a college degree, as entry into many occupations now requires advanced credentials. Pursuing a college degree costs time and money, often presenting barriers to those pursuing the dream. Prior learning assessment (PLA) offers a solution to spend less time and money earning a…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Student Evaluation, Adult Students, Portfolio Assessment
Wolford, George W.; Wolford, Laura L.; Fissel Brannick, Schea; Anderson, Emily N.; McLoud, Kaitlin – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to describe the speech-language pathology master's program experience for two groups of students: students with former speech-language pathology assistant (SLPA) experience (fSLPA) and students without SLPA experience (nSLPA). Results are relevant to current SLPAs who are considering attending graduate…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel
Kelchen, Robert – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2015
Competency-based education (CBE), broadly defined as a form of higher education in which credit is provided on the basis of student learning rather than credit or clock hours, has begun to catch the attention of federal and state policymakers, foundations, and colleges. Among the model's promising features are its potential to lower college costs…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Higher Education, Student Costs, Enrollment
Baker, Rachel B. – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2015
The rise of competency-based education (CBE) has redefined what college looks like for a growing number of students. The basic idea underlying CBE is simple: programs award credit based on demonstrated student competencies rather than on the amount of time a student has spent in a given course. Recent advances in technology, including online…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, College Students, Student Experience, College Programs
Association of Canadian Community Colleges, 2011
This paper describes the programs and services colleges have in place to facilitate student mobility, and documents the main regional and provincial/territorial mechanisms to facilitate transfer of post-secondary credits from one institution to another. Because there are many terms used to describe elements of post-secondary transferability and…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Mobility, College Transfer Students