New Playbook: Incremental Credentialing in Graduate Education

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CREDENTIAL AS YOU GO PARTICIPANT

University of Texas System

WEBSITE

https://www.utsystem.edu/

TYPE

State System of Higher Education

LOCATION

Austin, Texas

COHORT

2023

Implementation stage & efforts to date

Design stage

  • Engaged in Phase 2 of a Beyond Completion grant awarded by Strada to expand the system-wide Texas Credentials for the Future Initiative, focused on infusing career readiness into the undergraduate experience by including relevant industry microcredentials and skills badges at no additional cost to learners

Goals for participation

  • Continue to focus on low-earning majors, while expanding efforts to include other majors in which significant post-graduation earnings disparities exist
  • Reach 30,000 students across the system’s eight academic institutions
  • Leverage Credential As You Go resources such as playbooks and policy examples to inform efforts
  • Broaden and deepen connections across a community of practice that will help facilitate implementation and scaling of microcredentials and digital badging programs

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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.