AcademyOne's cause is to foster student success by transforming how institutions and academic communities align curriculum, improve guidance and implement stronger assessment practices to better predict, place and promote students on their path.

We at AcademyOne have been addressing this issue for a while, and we know that it won't be solved with uniform acceptance.  We are working hard to address college transfer and the issues of student mobility across higher education institutions here in the United States where educational attainment is so important to families and communities.  To date, there is no uniform set of practices in place.  With a very decentralized system of schools and how they are managed, we are striving to build consensus and value in support of prior learning recognition.  Prior learning is a term we describe as the set of processes implied with acceptance into an academic program, helping determine placement and pathway to success. 

AcademyOne powers CollegeTransfer.Net as a public service.  We have launched a national campaign called Promise.Partner.Pioneer.  It implies the basic principal or promise that if we (the education providers) advertise the benefit of education, we should stand behind the quality of course offerings by showing the world how they stand up to other similar courses.  There are over 3.5 million college level courses offered every year across the United States and subsidized by the taxpayers through the public benefit of supporting education in general.  There are many subjects and topics, and many won't be exactly transferable or comparable: however, many are.  This is at the center of our driving passion and cause.  We believe it is our responsibility to publish how courses compare, or how they don't.  We can inform consumers (yes, students are consumers) how their investment will carry forward or apply toward an eventual credential or degree.  That is the Promise we seek to support with our campaign.  We offer the power of this platform for FREE to those institutions who take us up on our offer.  To learn more about Promise, please visit Promise.Partner.Pioneer. 

CollegeTransfer.Net is a platform designed to support a proactive community of institutions and education providers seeking to help adult learners, students transitioning between institutions, unemployed workers going back to college, community college students seeking to complete their undergraduate degree, early college students seeking to leap ahead, students seeking to accelerate completion by attending and enrolling in online courses to satisfy degree requirements, Military learners who are compiling a transcript of learning along their path and many other types of students who must bridge academic policies and programs.  Proactive efforts are important.  The are the only way we see to successfully create a systematic and repeatable set of processes which will address the challenges of college transfer.  Making things a bit more uniform won't impact academic freedom. Making the processes fair and predictive by revealing policies and rules in easy to follow guidelines is the only way to truly accomplish this.

We hope you agree.  Our passion and cause is to help students, no matter where they attend, to accumulate prior learning.  Our hope is to help them realize the importance of validating the value of coursework before they spend their time and money.  Transfer disclosure is a lot like knowing what is in a product we can buy in the supermarket.  We should know what is in it before we buy it, not after we take it home. 

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If you want to learn more about AcademyOne, please visit our corporate website at: www.academyone.com.