Is a National Tipping Point Study Needed to Improve Our Credentialing System?

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CREDENTIAL AS YOU GO PARTICIPANT

SUNY Onondaga Community College

WEBSITE

https://www.sunyocc.edu/

LOCATION

Syracuse, New York

COHORT

2023

Implementation stage & efforts to date Design stage

  • OCC has several types of alternative credentials in place, including apprenticeships, workforce certificates, and bootcamps. However, not all of these are incremental credentials. That is, they do not all stack into a credit- bearing program. Credit for prior learning can be applied to a degree program, but our process for assessing prior learning currently takes place at the department level rather than at the institutional level. 
Goals for 

participation 
  • To better serve our students, job seekers, workers  seeking advancement, and employers, we must help to make the entire process transparent and connected so that “no credit is left behind.”

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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.