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Pierpont Community and Technical College https://www.pierpont.edu/ will give you an Associate's degree for free. https://www.pierpont.edu/academics/associate-degrees/board-of-governors/

So what are the catches? Follow this plan: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Pierpont_C%26TC
Read more... ) If you still need more credits to get the 60 credit minimum, sign up on www.Sophia.org for anything that you are interested in and don't already have covered via community college, TECEPs, TEEX, Google Coursera IT certificate...

DO NOT APPLY at Pierpont until you have that minimum! If you then want to continue on through Thomas Edison State University tesu.edu for your bachelor's, I can help ANYONE who asks below or PMs me how to get through a Bachelor's degree for least cost. Yes, I'm a TESU Alumni Ambassador, but I also think it's the best way for adults who like studying for tests for credit.

If you're Jewish or adjacent, Coopersmith Career Consulting https://www.coopersmithcc.net/shop/ can help you get credits in things you probably have a background in already, like how did most American Jews get here, Jewish Immigrant history, Yiddish or Modern Hebrew for credit. If you're not Jewish, they still have a lot of allied health, business, computer, culinary, psychology and sociology courses that you might want to look at as well.
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November 9th I read about an opportunity to take 9 graduate credits, 3 courses, in a certificate in Telehealth for $50 to sign up, and $100 for program completion fee. No other tuition costs, but applications would close November 11. I quickly applied and got access to my first course November 15, and the course had opened November 14th.

I'm feeling lost much of the time because much of the course vocabulary is from project management, Telehealth Leadership and Management, but the other two courses are Trends in Telehealth Delivery, and Legal and Ethical Issues in Telehealth, when I believe I have a better foundation in the subject matter.

So it's good that I'm in the class, good that I'm learning things, good that I'm just trying to get a C in this specific class, and it's hard when I don't even get useful feedback from the professor.

Here's the program, if anyone wants to start in the January term: https://www.ace.edu/program/certificate-in-telehealth#courseplan
If anyone reading this has project management experience, you will have an easier time with the Leadership course in particular.
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I had three separate email chains going on with my university last week, so was deliberately ignoring most of the news. Yes, I did notice, yes, we're all safe.

Issues that needed to be resolved:

1. I never got the emails to take my Major Field Test. Why wasn't I coded with Psychology AND Liberal Studies majors? Everything was resolved, I took the exam yesterday, and scored 176/200, 89th percentile. Definitely above average!

2. Am I going to be reviewed for the graduation audit in both majors? Yes, I have gotten the confirmation emails that I'm expected to graduate with a dual AOS from TESU on March 12, if all of the transfer credits are received on time.

3. My professor for Experimental Psychology had not reviewed my assignments or answered emails since early in December. Can someone check on the professor? And could I get my assignments graded somehow, for the final grade? Mentors office wasn't able to contact the professor either and I'm still a little concerned, but they did get someone to grade my assignments, and I have a 95 for final grade in the class. Yay A!
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Made a prompt at DD's blog, here's another copy of the information:

COMFORT LEARNING

I can't make this into anything easily understood right now, so:

Genna knows these websites, Drew probably does by now, and Aidan, Alicia, and Kraken probably had hands and tentacles into building them.

I just realized just how close to FINISHING in 2 Bachelor's in Liberal Studies (Social Sciences and Humanities) and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration via TESU.edu as I returned to the university that helped me get a degree in my twenties. I panicked for a bit, now I'm going through each of my options, including testing.

Grab someone and help them go through their options, even Victor could do this:

College credits for free and other types of learners:

Modern States will pay for CLEP credit exams and the testing center fee: www.modernstates.org https://courses.modernstates.org/

Saylor Academy only charges for test proctoring, learn whatever you like until you can cover fees: https://learn.saylor.org/

Online Degree is also free: https://www.onlinedegree.com/

Here's a free math qualitative literacy course: https://www.csmlearn.com/

Testing, fees, DSST exams: http://www.getcollegecredit.com

TECEP exams: https://www2.tesu.edu/listalltecep.php

UExcel exams: https://www.excelsior.edu/exams/choose-your-exam/

Inexpensive credits for Christians: https://fbep.org/ https://fbep.org/academics/tracks-study

And for Jews, I'm doing the relevant courses for me: Judaic studies, upper level psychology, sociology, classes, and interesting education and history ones. https://www.coopersmithcc.net/shop/?cat-name=education-courses

Some of these are on YouTube too: study.com, Coopersmith...