Alternative Credit Project closing down

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Some of you may be familiar with the Alternative Credit Project (ACP) it was essentially a written articulation agreement between colleges and ACE. It was noteworthy because some colleges that didn't really take ACE credit would allow ACE credit it if was on your ACE transcript as ACP.
(example: you take a course through Straighterline and send it to ACE as a SL course, but submit it as second time as an ACP course- one course, entered twice- and then would be accepted by some schools *like Fayetteville State University here in NC* that would otherwise not accept SL courses- so, cool benefit if you knew about it)

Anyway, their grant money is coming to a close and the APC relationship is listed as expiring 3/31/2018. I sent them a message a bit ago asking about any future extensions, and here is what they had to say:

"Hi Jennifer,

Yes, you're correct that the active grant project is coming to an end on March 31st; however, any courses that were completed during the active credit recommendation period are still transferrable to the institutions. We are in the process of asking each participating school to update thwe language on their landing page to reflect courses they will continue to accept. Similarly, we will ask them to share that information with us so we can update the website to reflect the current course listing and acceptance by institutions.

I am also working with my colleagues in our credit recommendation unit to extend the expiration dates while the prociders prepare for re-reviews of their courses.

Please feel free to reach out if you have any more questions."

So, sadly, that's a no. For a while, a handful of Saylor Academy courses had direct credit ONLY via ACP and they did tell me that they were going to obtain ACE /NCCRS evaluation independently. It's worth double checking dates though, just to be sure.