Martin Luther College (MLC) in New Ulm, Minnesota, operated by the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), is introducing a subscription-priced competency-based education program enrolling for Fall 2024. The target audience is adult learners seeking to become teachers especially in WELS schools.

The first component of the program is a theology education minor of six courses (18 credits). They state students will complete two courses in every 15-week term. Whether larger (or smaller) course loads per term are possible is not described in their announcement.

When the first cohort finishes this six-course sequence, MLC "hope[s] to have approval for the next component of the program, so they can seamlessly move ahead!"

Tuition is $1700 per term.

Hey guys, does anyone know if Sophia.org is still on Perkspot for any company? I found out my Instacart Shopper account is still active although I haven't used it in several years and they offer Perkspot to their Shoppers. I signed up for it through the link in the Shopper portal but did not see Sophia listed as an option. Is Sophia only available to certain companies or maybe not available at all anymore?

Thanks!

Hi,

I just talked to a friend of mine.
He wants to get a BA.

I told him about UMPI.

He qualifies for a full Pell grant,
and full federal financial aid.

He is a dedicated hard worker!

So,
He wants to enroll at UMPI {your pace}

He wants to take
 12 credits for the fall session,
and 
12 credits for the spring session.

     My question is,
will these credits give him access to HIS full Pell grant and FA???

The way he had it figured,
he should have $4k+ per semester left over,
 for living expenses,
after paying tuition, etc

I looked at all his paperwork and college plans,
and it seems like this should work out as planned.

I was hoping someone here could let me know their opinion on this,
and any possible guidance????

THANX

PS---He is going to use his spare time and college downtime,
 to get Sophia, 
Study, and Modern States credits.

PSS---If this concept is correct,
I thought it was clever to have his college paid for,
and collect $2k per month for each 8 week term!!

hey all, i'm looking to make a plan to get a bachelors as quickly as possible, however i can only use 30 clep credits due to graduate school reqs. i cannot clep any of the STEM classes other than math. i need to have the following to apply to the masters/doctorate program in Tradtional Chinese Medicine:

intro to physics or conceptual physics
general biology (no lab req)
general chemistry (nursing or health aligned preferable)
intro to psychology
stats or college algebra

would be nice to have:
organic chem
inorganic chem
biochem
anthropology
public speaking


was looking at taking a few universal learner courses from ASU and doing a BA in psych with UMPI but i cannot seem to make this jive with the sciences i need. all advice is welcome and thanks in advance!

I am in my 4th semester at UCA for the PhD in Change Leadership for Equity and Diversity and I found someone else who went to WGU! They got a MBA.

As I mentioned previously, a lot of the other students are either local to Arkansas or are UCA staff. At the beginning of most classes, when we meet via Zoom everyone introduces themselves and this is when I heard of the other person who also went to WGU.

This is exciting for two reasons, I know some people (obviously not me) have reservations about WGU, but people from WGU do go on to many other schools. Also, that this UCA program is very special and local, considering how many people from the region make up the program.

I recently completed the Google Cloud Data Analytics certificate on Coursera and wanted to let everyone know how it transferred over to TESU. I received credit for CIS-3110, CLD-4300, and CYB-4500. 

I'm currently in the Computer Information Systems program and CIS-3110 filled my last AOS elective spot, the other two did not apply. I've played around with some of the other degree plans and it looks like CIS-3110 and CLD-4300 work as AOS Electives for the Computer Science program and CYB-4500 filled the Cloud Computing requirement for the Information Technology program. I would double check these with advising though.


I know UL credit for these programs can sometimes be hard to find and I haven't seen any posts on the Google Cloud certificates yet. Hopefully this is useful for someone else in the future as well.

Greetings Everyone,

Thanks to all of you for this wonderful forum. I misplaced my original high school transcripts, so I completed a diploma from Excel High, Florida, in 2008.

Annual Sophia membership just expired. Currently studying German at Modernstates.

1 RA credit for Pierpoint. Clackamas LIB 101 has a backlog.
 
ASU. waiting for my Asurite ID.

Can I try TECEP's for RA credits? 

I am kind of lost.

Your Location: California

Your Age: 54

What kind of degree do you want? AA,BA

Current Regional Accredited Credits: 0

Current ACE, CLEP, or NCCRS Credits: 135 

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Any certifications or military experience? None
Budget: cost-effective
Commitments: None
Dedicated time to study: 2 hours daily
Timeline: Fast Bachelors
Tuition assistance/reimbursement: N/A


Thank you all in advance.

Hello all,

I'm in the process of satisfying general education requirements at a community college where I plan to take an AAS degree program. So far I have satisfied just about every GenEd requirement for the program except for two. The two remaining classes are Accounting I and Business Math.

Here's the situation, to be able to enroll in those classes, I needed to pass an introductory algebra course, which I ultimately failed (the instructor was lousy and didn't seem interested in helping people understand the material). I'm also working towards an online, self-paced bachelor's degree at an out of state, regionally accredited university. I will be taking business math and accounting at that school instead of the community college.

Once I complete those credits, I plan to transfer them to the community college. The community college said they will accept those credits as long as they're not ACE credits. Part of the reason I'm taking the remaining classes at the other school is to a) work towards the bachelor's degree and b) bypass the community college's introductory algebra prerequisite. Are there any problems I could run into when it's time for me to submit my application for the AAS program at the community college? I will have the business math and accounting credits transferred in long before the application deadline in November, however, I wonder if the F in introductory algebra will come back to haunt me? My only concern is them making me retake the algebra course before letting me move forward. In my mind, they shouldn't care about the failed algebra class if I complete the two other classes elsewhere. What's everyone's take on this?

Just for clarification, the introductory algebra course is considered "developmental", meaning that it won't affect my GPA one way or another.

Marc Novicoff (in Washington Monthly) Wrote:Overwhelmed—or perhaps underwhelmed—prospective students often resort to asking for information from schools directly.

And that’s when the salespeople intervene.  

“I signed up as someone who was interested and wanted more information about the program,” Sofia—who requested that we use only her first name—told me of her experience in the summer of 2019. “And the next day I got a recruitment call.”

According to Sofia, her recruitment agent was relentless, calling her almost daily and remembering every detail he heard. “He name-dropped some of my professors,” she said. “He remembered my pets’ names.” 

She expressed to him that the program [based on context in the article, apparently the online Master of Arts in Counseling from Northwestern University] seemed too expensive, with a tuition (not including housing or any other costs) of between $133,824 and $190,440, depending on the track. But the recruitment agent countered, selling her on the “incredible power of being able to say that you went to Northwestern.” 

This “incredible power,” as Sofia recalls him saying, is not recognized by the market. Northwestern’s median earnings five years after graduation, $56,897, are markedly lower than the median master’s program in this category: $63,675. 

That recruitment agent worked for 2U, a private, for-profit online education program management company which also runs the online infrastructure that Northwestern’s master’s program uses—software that, one alum told me, she felt was constantly having “technological glitches” and felt “clunky and old.” Though 2U’s exact compensation from Northwestern isn’t publicly disclosed, the company’s standard deals with universities in 2019 involved keeping 60 percent or more of tuition revenues. (More recently, 2U has reduced its standard revenue-sharing fee for degree programs to 35 percent.)

Seattle, WA is on top!  4 cities are in California, 3 cities in Texas... 2 cities in Florida.
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