COSC Accepting few SDC credits

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Schools are certainly entitled to do what they want within reason and applicable law. Certainly, COSC's decision to basically thumb their nose at folks using alt credit and actively drive away tens or hundreds of thousands of students who might otherwise use their programs is well within their purview.

What seems a little nonsensical here is why they are doing it. They could give the bigger of the Big 3 a run for their money by having a simple, low-cost program. Have the credit flexibility and minimal UL credit requirements of TESU, add a residency waiver, do away with all of their ridiculous policy additions and restrictive general ed requirements that have come about in recent years... spend a little bit on advertising or, better yet, social media marketing, maybe partner with Sophia and SDC and they could probably easily triple in size.

But instead it's as though they are actively turning their back on a crowd that, at least as I understand it, have been faithful COSC supporters for decades.  It's really hard to fathom the thinking behind this.  To me, it seems small-minded, but of course, there's a lot I don't know.

It's my understanding that the Big 3 have always served a lot of people in the armed forces. When I was at TESU, they apparently have some sort of corporate deal with Jet Blue, as my professor told me they had a huge number of JetBlue employees.  And it seems COSC is actively driving away those sorts of students.

It's a sad chapter, but it certainly seems like the Big 3 are now Excelsior, TESU and UMPI. It would be interesting to fully understand why they're alienating the crowd the put them on the map.