Pierpont Associates (AAS) and UMPI Bachelor's degree Excel template

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@ss20ts

Thank you for sharing your personal journey and challenges you faced in your education. I appreciate your honesty. Once my son gets started and into a habit with a clear cut plan, he can execute. It's just getting started when he frankly got demotivated with school. He knows he needs the degree, but, it is just getting back into the swing of it and having the discipline to check the box and do the work.

Malaun Rice is the name of the enrollment counselor. I am beginning this would be a waste of time until he is ready to enroll.

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The enrollment counselor can't help with credit transfers of any kind. They're really useless. My dogs know more about YourPace and they slept while I studied!

How is he doing with Sophia classes? Does he have a plan to work on a class? Like today work on Environmental Science. 2pm - 230pm Complete Unit 1, Challenge 2. That's what I ddi with a notebook and my Google Calendar. It really helped me stay on track and on focus. At 230 I'd have a 10 minute break to get a drink, bathroom, snack, whatever. Then go back to the next section for half an hour. It helped me with my UMPI classes too. Some days I just couldn't focus on anything. ADHD really does suck.

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I think he is getting himself organized. He actually requested today to get a white board because he wants to map his schedule with work (off for Summer) out right now and goals. He got the opportunity to work with several younger guys who focus on real estate flipping and is getting experience on sales calls, social media, construction, etc. and it is the happiest I have seen him in a while. If he is interested in something, I can see him really motivated. He is getting the opportunity that a lot of recent college grads get in their internships until several years into their first job so I am really happy for him in that regards. Having ADHD, it was hard for him to muddle through the class where he was not seeing an immediate result which I think is harder for younger people and especially people with ADHD. My younger son also struggles with the same thing. Their Mom died from breast cancer 2 years ago so I think they buried all of those feelings down, but, that is a whole another issue where counseling is needed. 

If I can show him achievable goal with a shorter timeline than 3 more years of traditional classes, he will be interested. He was interested when I talked to him the other day about it. Also, I think the concept of doing 1 or maybe 2 courses at a time will be MUCH better for him than the traditional 15 week semester.

If you don't mind, could you please look at my attached degree plan and let me know your thoughts? I filled in his existing 25 classes classes he has from YSU. I literally copied the UMPI BABA Mgmt and Leadership degree plan and put it into Excel.

Do the general electives at UMPI have to be lower level, upper level, or a combination of both? If he takes Macro and Micro Economics at UPMI(or another source), it would appear he only has to take 2 more GE or 5 credit hours? 

I didn't see a requirement on the Wiki at https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/UMPI_BABA_Management_%26_Leadership_Degree_Plan. If the rest of his YSU classes other than Writing 1, Communications Foundations, and Astronomy are not meeting the General Education, Business Administration core classes, or Management and Leadership concentration courses, I put the courses he already took which total 16 credit hours:

ANTH 1500 Intro to Anthropology 3 cr
REL 2601 Introduction to World Religions 3 cr

THTR 1500 History of Motion Pictures 3 cr

PSYCH 1550 General Psychology 3 cr

GEOG 2630 Weather 3 cr

YSU 1500 Student Success Seminar 1 cr

This means he has 95 credit hours left if all the classes are accepted or about 32 classes at 3 credit hours each. 

Please let me know if I am missing anything on the degree plan.

Thanks,

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