New BSW From COSC

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But the bigger concern for me at the moment is that the program isn't even in pre-candidacy yet. It's a long road from pre-candidacy to full programmatic accreditation, and so students who do go alt-credit and finish their COSC BSW in 2 years may find that they have to sit on their hands for a few years before they will be able to do anything with it, as the degree probably won't get programmatic accreditation for 3 or 4 years, I would guess.

Important notes on retroactive recognition in the CSWE status language: https://www.cswe.org/accreditation/accre...editation/

• "Students who enter programs in Pre-Candidacy that attain Candidacy in the academic year in which they begin their program of study will be retroactively recognized as having graduated from a CSWE-accredited program once the program attains Initial Accreditation"
  
• "Students who enter programs that attain Candidacy in or before the academic year in which they begin their program of study will be retroactively recognized as having graduated from a CSWE-accredited program once the program attains Initial Accreditation."
  

So if COSC succeeds in "actively work[ing] to obtain CSWE pre-candidacy status for Fall 2022," they'd still need to gain candidacy status that same academic year (in order for students entering in 2022 to eventually get retroactive recognition).