06-03-2008, 02:18 PM
It's a little confusing, I suppose, and its ramifications are annoying, but it's really not that hard to understand if you think about it.
Each school is entitled to set its own policy as to what it accepts for transfer credit. Typically, coursework completed at one regionally-accredited school can be transferred to another school (but even that is not a black-and-white rule). But exams such as CLEP and DSST and professional certifications such as MCSE are not coursework, so each school sets its own policy. TESC has decided to accept FEMA certifications directly for credit. Excelsior has decided not to.
Frederick Community College has an independent study program wherein the coursework IS the FEMA courses. Therefore the FCC credits are coursework credits, and that makes them transferable to other schools. This is an exclusive relationship that FCC has with FEMA -- FEMA of course is not a school, and cannot award credits themselves. TESC doesn't have this relationship -- they just award credits like they do for other professional certifications, but they don't claim that this is TESC coursework.
I'm not sure how I feel about the whole FEMA credit thing myself. Suffice to say that I didn't take them, and I have no regrets on that score.
-Gary-
Each school is entitled to set its own policy as to what it accepts for transfer credit. Typically, coursework completed at one regionally-accredited school can be transferred to another school (but even that is not a black-and-white rule). But exams such as CLEP and DSST and professional certifications such as MCSE are not coursework, so each school sets its own policy. TESC has decided to accept FEMA certifications directly for credit. Excelsior has decided not to.
Frederick Community College has an independent study program wherein the coursework IS the FEMA courses. Therefore the FCC credits are coursework credits, and that makes them transferable to other schools. This is an exclusive relationship that FCC has with FEMA -- FEMA of course is not a school, and cannot award credits themselves. TESC doesn't have this relationship -- they just award credits like they do for other professional certifications, but they don't claim that this is TESC coursework.
I'm not sure how I feel about the whole FEMA credit thing myself. Suffice to say that I didn't take them, and I have no regrets on that score.
-Gary-
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