Stupid Policy at a Police Department

[cookderosa]

A TESC degree probably wouldn't be questioned because they don't know what they're talking about. All they will see is that TESC offers courses on ground, but they probably won't realize that only the nursing program is on ground. But then again, they will probably wonder how you worked in Texas while attending a school in New Jersey. If you have a degree from Excelsior or Charter Oak, sorry. Your degree is not good enough for them.

My guess is that most of the detention and law enforcement officers do not have a 4-year degree or higher. Someone else on the other forum pointed out their extremely low cap on how many people will receive educational incentive pay: 20 masters and 125 bachelors. I'm just assuming that the union agreed to this low cap because degrees are rare at BCSO. There are about 800 detention officers and probably around 800-1000 police officers. I have to distinguish between the two because they're all called deputies.

As I said on the other forum, University of the Incarnate Word, Our Lady of the Lake University, and St. Mary's University in San Antonio offer "internet degrees." How do they expect to tell that someone attended one of those colleges online? What I also said on the other forum is that I should send an email to Governor Rick Perry's office to tell them that his beloved WGU-Texas is not good enough for BCSO.

Also, I'd like to know what portion of your degree can be completed online before the scales tip into it being an online degree? For instance, if you attend the local community college, you still have the option of mixing it up to fit your schedule. As you pointed out, the transcript doesn't specify, so if you reveal that you took online classes, how many are allowed? 1? half the degree? What if you took all your classes online through your local physical campus RA CC? What if you attended Harvard? That's a no-go too? You have to GO there for most of the degree, but you can do part of it online, so what's the breakdown?