CCAF & Straighterline

[hosstark]

Your explanation of Straighterline doesn't jive with me.


Straighterline(SL) is not a college so obviously it won't have regional or national accreditation. SL is a learning system that is "accredited"-approved by ACE(American Council on Education) all of SL courses are approved by ACE. If your college accepts ACE transcripts then they may accept SL courses, you don't necessarily need to attend a "partner college".

When SL courses are put onto an ACE transcript, SL will always be listed as the originating source.

If SL is "making the claim" that CCAF accepts their credits, they are probably implying that CCAF accepts ACE transcripts for credit. Many schools accept ACE transcripts so there's a chance they will accept SL.

What you are saying does not really disagree with what I said. In the educational world, however, the term accredited is not interchangeable with approved or recommended. ACE is not an actual accrediting institution nor is it an accredited institution. It evaluates courses and makes recommendations to institutions as to what kind of credit and how much credit they believe a course should be worth. However, since ACE is not actually an accredited institution or accrediting institution, it is completely up to the school if they decide to accept credit for those courses. Now because ACE does have a descent reputation and because a lot of the work they are recommending comes from military servicemen and women, institutions are more likely to accept the credit quite often out of loyalty to service members and the fact that it is bad PR for a school to say a members military education is of no value.

Now back to SL. Take a look at the institutions that it has partnered with. Most are for profit schools and often looked down upon by the traditional, well respected schools. There are no Ivy league schools on the list. Most of them are primarily online schools that target military members/veterans VA/TA benefits. Now, I am a capitalist, so I don't really have a problem with that, but you may be hard pressed to get some of the upper echelons of traditional education to accept SL without it being directly tied to an actual accredited institution.

Even at our base, when you want to CLEP or Dantes a test, it is administered by one of the colleges that we have on base, that way it is directly put into that accredited colleges transcript.

I think accreditation is all really a joke considering nothing in the accrediting process actually addresses curriculum covered or competency in subject matter. Accrediting is all about how many people graduate that started the program and how much the school spends on its students and faculty versus on marketing costs. When a school gets its accreditation taken away it is normally for not having "qualified" instructors (as stated above about Masters degrees or graduate hours) and for spending to much money on marketing and not having a high enough graduate rate.