Excelsior Developing Assessment-Based Bachelor's in Business

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Excelsior is also participating in the NGLC incubator program to expand the college’s CBE offerings. “We’re going forward with an assessment-based bachelor’s in business program,” Ebersole says. “We’ll be working with our faculty and hopefully the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to establish the competencies, which can be assessed like in our nursing program.”

The NGLC initiative also allows Excelsior to collaborate on CBE programs with community colleges, with which it already has almost 100 transfer agreements. “We deal with similar students,” Ebersole says, “and we both want them to graduate and succeed. Giving credit for prior learning increases the odds of degree completion two and a half times. We need to be doing more of that, particularly at community colleges.”

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