COSC Accepting few SDC credits

[freeloader]

It's like Pierpont. I have no idea why they allow the AAS BOG to be used by non-West Virginia residents with no residency requirements. Do not get me wrong, I'm glad they are, but we're actually costing them money. I'm so super surprised they have let it go on this way for so long.

I wonder the same thing. Of course, it’s possible that they actually want to help students. 

I also think about graduation rates. These were incredibly important for the Obama Education Department when those rates were linked to eligibility to receive student loans. Pierpont’s graduation rate isn’t great (true for a lot of CC). Numbers reported on vary a fair bit, but one list has it at 12.2% (link below). The BOG AAS could be a strategy to improve graduation rates across the West Virginia college and university system, Pierpont just takes it a step further than other schools. US News puts their enrollment at around 1,800 students.  It is probably a pretty safe assumption that BOG AAS, as a degree completion program, graduates its students at FAR more than 12%. For a school of this size, enrolling only a handful of BOG AAS students each year and graduation them at, say, a 50%+ clip would have a clear and meaningful impact on those graduation rates!  And helping students isn’t bad either…

https://www.collegesimply.com/colleges/r...-virginia/