Charter Oak struggles as well, not just Excelsior

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sanantone 

Assessment Colleges go back (1971-87) before UExcels exams.  Read some of the older Dr. Bears Guides on the Big 3 he loved them.  UExcels exams came later.  The Big 3 were all "Assessment Colleges."  100% credits were transferred in.  None of the Big 3 had courses or exams.  Generally, 100% of credits came from B&M colleges.  These students just paid an annual fee and transferred credits in.  The Big 3 helped make a legit RA degree for adults who fell through the cracks like military students who moved often before the internet.  [/size][/b][/size]

You mean that no one took CLEP back then? CLEP has been around since 1968. I think TESU (formerly TESC) started offering online courses in the 1980s. They probably didn't have a lot of students, though. Did the Big 3 ever offer correspondence courses? Those have been around forever. Penn Foster is over 100 years old.

I am not sure!  100% of my credits came from 5 real B&M colleges in my first Big 3 degree.  I did have some military ACE credits but they were not needed.  I do NOT remember exam options.  Computers and internet were not around yet.  Typewriters were the norm.  Rich kids had electric and poor kids manual typewriters.   All my communications with USNY (Excelsior College first name) was by mail and took a month.  I paid an annual enrollment fee to USNY.  In many ways, USNY was much easier to deal with than Excelsior college.  Quarter hour classes were OK to meet the course standard.   I just needed to add more business hours overall.  Today TESU is a pain about this.  Not so back then.  I had a mixture of SH and QTR hours college credits.  My capstone business class (today's term not used then) was BUS 453 Business Policy & Strategy at the University of Oregon (easy class).