According to my most recent experience, the local colleges are coming around with respect to CLEP, DSST, and Excelsior. While taking my DSST tests at two different local colleges I found good support for these. In fact, one of the private school administrators told me that she has sent a number of students to Excelsior that would have faced massive credit loss in her school.
The key may be to find a local school that offers DSST testing and try to cajole them into supporting it more. Even better would be to get a local school that does not offer DSST testing to begin offering it as a supplemental method.
Another thing to work on with the schools would be to be more accepting of transfer credits. Do they really not feel guilty telling someone who is out of work that they can only transfer 20 prior credits into their program? Asking someone to repeat previously completed courses will stop them dead in their tracks.
I can relate to the 40 something out-of-work syndrome, and congratulate you for helping out. I am in that bind myself, but feel that I can dig myself out since my jobs over the past 30 years have made me really good at demand learning. I know many people that have not done a whole lot of learning and adapting in the past years, and who are now in big trouble. I wish I could help them out, but like they say on the airplane, "Make sure you put your own Oxygen mask on before you try to help others".
The key may be to find a local school that offers DSST testing and try to cajole them into supporting it more. Even better would be to get a local school that does not offer DSST testing to begin offering it as a supplemental method.
Another thing to work on with the schools would be to be more accepting of transfer credits. Do they really not feel guilty telling someone who is out of work that they can only transfer 20 prior credits into their program? Asking someone to repeat previously completed courses will stop them dead in their tracks.
I can relate to the 40 something out-of-work syndrome, and congratulate you for helping out. I am in that bind myself, but feel that I can dig myself out since my jobs over the past 30 years have made me really good at demand learning. I know many people that have not done a whole lot of learning and adapting in the past years, and who are now in big trouble. I wish I could help them out, but like they say on the airplane, "Make sure you put your own Oxygen mask on before you try to help others".
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