At one time, about 4-5 ?? years ago, I made up a list of colleges that had some process for considering unaccredited degrees and credits. Many seemed willing to look at and consider acceptance of them. I can't say what the acceptance is now, things change rapidly, but I suspect that there are still many that are open minded about such schools.
Considering how much crap that the gang and others have put out there it's amazing that the level of acceptance is as high as it is. I hope that in the future we can get back to the many varied options that were once there.
Sure, many schools now offer accredited degrees via DL, but, they want you to take basically the same courses that resident students take. Which means 4-6 years to get a degree. That is hardly what Bear and others were talking about during the 1970's- 80's-early 90's. The idea was, back then, that using life experience and by testing out an adult could get a decent degree from a state licensed school in about a year. What is the value to a 50 year old man of DL if it takes all the same work as for a 18 year old kid. Where is the credit for work, life experience and other events experienced by an older person. Is this what Bear was seeing as the future? I certainly hope not. It's not what I saw or wanted and it's certainly not what he wrote in the front of his guide books.
Unaccredited schools may have been lacking, at times, but they were going in the right direction and would have gotten better if the lies and distortions hadn't destroyed many of the state licensed schools.
Considering how much crap that the gang and others have put out there it's amazing that the level of acceptance is as high as it is. I hope that in the future we can get back to the many varied options that were once there.
Sure, many schools now offer accredited degrees via DL, but, they want you to take basically the same courses that resident students take. Which means 4-6 years to get a degree. That is hardly what Bear and others were talking about during the 1970's- 80's-early 90's. The idea was, back then, that using life experience and by testing out an adult could get a decent degree from a state licensed school in about a year. What is the value to a 50 year old man of DL if it takes all the same work as for a 18 year old kid. Where is the credit for work, life experience and other events experienced by an older person. Is this what Bear was seeing as the future? I certainly hope not. It's not what I saw or wanted and it's certainly not what he wrote in the front of his guide books.
Unaccredited schools may have been lacking, at times, but they were going in the right direction and would have gotten better if the lies and distortions hadn't destroyed many of the state licensed schools.