TESU Cornerstone Deadline

[Merlin]

I'm posting this in case some of you haven't seen or received this message from TESU:

Dear Students,

Thomas Edison State University requires all students to take the TES-100 Cornerstone: Lifelong Learning Strategies course in their first term of courses. We encourage you to register for this course right away so you can move forward in pursuit of your degree. To ensure maximum flexibility and convenience for you, we request that you complete TES-100 by June 30, 2019 as this course will not be offered each term after that date. 

Beginning July 1, 2019 all students who have not completed TES-100 by June 30, 2019 will be required to take SOS-110 (3 credits), in lieu of TES-100. SOS-100 may be used to fulfill the required Information Literacy requirement or as an elective in all undergraduate degree programs.

Well, that blows. Luckily I'll be graduated by then, but it means alt. education folks will need to plan on 6 credits at TESU instead of 4 (or 3). It will also raise the degree cost by roughly $800 ($1098 using Study.com discount rather than $300 for TES-100). Plus it will introduce more timing issues on graduation planning since SOS-110 (Living in the Information Age) is a standard 3-month course like the capstone rather than an easy 30-60 minute review that can be done any time, like TES-100.

At least SOS-110 will come in as a useable Gen Ed (Info Lit) so it is actually useful in a degree plan rather than just taking up one of the GenEd elective credits like TES-100.