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The Board of Regents’ education committee is hearing proposed revisions to UW-Extension’s mission statement that would allow it to grant business certificates, associate degrees and bachelor’s degrees through the UW System’s Flex Option program....
The University of Wisconsin System has its UW Flexible Option degree program. Now, the University of Michigan is following suit, now that its regional accreditor has signed off on a new competency-based degree that...
“Give competency-based college programs a chance” is the headline over a guest column on the USA Today opinions site this week. The authors are James Piereson and Naomi Schaefer Riley. It’s a typical call-for-reform...
That’s the headline over a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel story. It says working adults who want to finish a college degree through the University of Wisconsin System’s new Flexible Option degree program will likely have two...
Plenty of news coverage – statewide, regionally and beyond – for this week’s announcement concerning the first progress on the UW System’s “flexible degree” initiative. A fairly lengthy Associated Press report is representative, explaining...
The University of Wisconsin System announced Wednesday the first degree programs that will be offered under its innovative UW Flexible Option starting in Fall 2013. The System is expected to be the first public...
Wednesday’s announcement by UW System wasn’t news to administrators and faculty at UW-Green Bay who are involved in Systemwide planning and study of the new UW Flexible Option. Both Provost Julia Wallace and faculty...
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who earlier this year with UW System President Kevin P. Reilly and Chancellor Ray Cross of Colleges and Extension announced a “competency-based degree model that will transform higher education in...
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was in Green Bay Tuesday, June 19 to announce “Flexible Degree” initiative, an effort designed to open new pathways toward a UW System degree. The new program is designed to...
