New Playbook: Incremental Credentialing in Graduate Education

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CREDENTIAL AS YOU GO PARTICIPANT

Huntington Junior College

WEBSITE

http://www.huntingtonjuniorcollege.edu/

LOCATION

Huntington, West Virginia

COHORT

2023

Implementation stage & efforts to date Design stage

  • This is a small institution implementing a credential-as-you-go model in January 2023.
  • Beginning in 2023, new students will earn a certificate in Business Fundamentals after completing the first 37 credits common to all Business Management tracks. They can follow with a certificate in accounting or entrepreneurship before completing an associate’s degree, demonstrating mastery in essential areas.
  • Also, beginning in 2023, all AAS degrees at HJC will share four General Education courses, earning a Civics Certificate on their way to their associate’s degree.
Goals for 

participation 
  • Learn from the CAYG community about next steps. 
  • Provide market-relevant stackable certificates as students progress toward an associate’s degree; offer valuable short-term credentials leading to jobs.
  • Learn about the relationship between incremental credentialing (from micro-credentials to certificates to degrees) and financial aid. 
  • Learn about Competency-Based Education + incremental credentialing.

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FUNDING STATEMENT

Credential As You Go has acquired three phases of funding to date. Lumina Foundation funded Phase I, resulting in the Incremental Credential Framework for testing. The Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education funds Phase II (Grant R305T210063), which focuses on rapid prototyping of and research on incremental credentials with a national campaign. An anonymous private donor fund at the Program on Skills, Credentials & Workforce Policy at George Washington University funds the development of the prototype Learn and Work Ecosystem Library. Walmart funds Phase III, which focuses on systems change for expansion and sustainability of incremental credentials. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of Lumina Foundation, Institute of Education Sciences, the U.S. Department of Education, Walmart, or George Washington University.