New Excelsior College Cornerstone Initiative; starting January 2020

[natshar]

...  What is a cornerstone course from an overall collegiate perspective?  I can't find much about it on google.  Is such an initiative realistically better for student learning/completion or school revenue?

It's basically a course on how to study and find information online. It used to be called "Student success" or some such, and was often not even given college credit in the "old days". I'm sure it's helpful with a bunch of incoming freshmen who only have HS experience. I would think it's almost useless for transfer students who have already been taking and passing college courses.

EC already has Information Literacy as a required course. It highlights how to write a paper basically.   Is the Cornerstone different than that?

The current Info Lit course and certain courses can be transferred in to meet that requirment. Also it is self-paced and only 1 credit. If I had to guess I'm thinking the new cornerstone will be an actual course that is not self-paced.