| Title: | ARCHIVE-- Topics of Interest to Women, Volume 1 --ARCHIVE |
| Notice: | V1 is closed. TURRIS::WOMANNOTES-V5 is open. |
| Moderator: | REGENT::BROOMHEAD |
| Created: | Thu Jan 30 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 30 1995 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 873 |
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What competence-based university degree programs still exist out
there?
A friend and colleague of mine is a manufacturing manager who would
like to switch to engineering for her next position, but feels held
back by her lack of a university degree. She is without a doubt one of
the most compentent and energetic people I have ever met in my life and
has a mind like a razor, clearly someone who could benefit greatly from
a degree program that validates experiential knowledge rather than
"timeserving".
There were rather a lot of such programs in the early 70s. Are there
any left?
=maggie
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| 85.1 | alternative degree programs | DYO780::AXTELL | Dragon Lady | Fri Sep 19 1986 16:48 | 18 |
Anitoch University, in Yellow Springs, Ohio (near Dayton) has just
begun such a program. Anitoch is a relic from the sixties in many
ways (peace symbols, volkswagen microbusses, alternative politics,
etc). It does seem to attract some of the more intelligent people
(especially women), though. They have two programs with a BS as
the end result - human factors and management. Life experience
are credited heavily towards degree completion. Evergreen University
in Takoma has a similar program.
Capitol University might be a better solution for a quick degree.
They, too give credit for life experience. Capitol has "campusses"
all over the place and use a combination of local institutions and
their own faculty for academic. It seems like a place you go to
get the paper, not learn anything. Let me know if you'd like any
more info on these programs.
Maureen (DTN 433-2418)
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| 85.3 | another source | DAIRY::SHARP | Say something once, why say it again? | Tue Sep 23 1986 16:26 | 6 |
In the Ms. Magazine classified ads under the EDUCATION heading I noticed about 5 allegedly accredited institutions which accept life experience for academic credit advertizing non-traditional programs leading to degrees. No time to type thiem in now. Don. | |||||
| 85.4 | UMass UWW | OBLIO::DUBE | Thu Oct 02 1986 14:27 | 7 | |
Have your friend contact Rick Hendra at UMass Worcester (793-1139 or 793-1140). Rick administers the UWW program's Worcester cluster, and he can give her information about it and similar programs. I'm enrolled in UWW, so if your friend would like to talk with me about it, I'm available. Linda | |||||