09-28-2015, 10:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-28-2015, 10:33 PM by Life Long Learning.)
Summary
The Clackamas AAS-EM degree program was an excellent program for me. Hopefully Clackamas in the future will accept American Council on Education (ACE) credits from resident NETC/EMI/NFA/TEEX emergency management courses. EMI alone now has 46 American Council on Education (ACE) accredited courses. Clackamas is the best AAS-EM program in the Nation that truly follows current National emergency management doctrine.
Completing this degree you will accumulated many emergency management credentials that no other college or university will set you up with. The AAS-Emergency Management degree with an official Clackamas Community College transcript is the main credential. As collateral credentials you will also have FREE Emergency Management Institute official transcripts in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Two FEMA National Certificates (above) and one maybe one State Certificate earned directly from the curriculum from Clackamas. The EPP Honor Society is based 100% on your effort and is quite achievable.
AAS degrees in general are terminal degrees and not easy to transfer into the next level (BA/BS degrees), but I will find a way with the well-known aka “Big 3”….Excelsior College (NY), Thomas Edison State College (TESC) in New Jersey, and or Charter Oak State College (COSC) in Connecticut. These three regionally accredited colleges for non-traditional adults all take non-traditional credits (ACE, DSST, CLEP, JST, CPL, and CBA) that most colleges extremely limit or flat out refuse to accept. Excelsior (EM minor) is coming out with a real emergency management BS degree (EM major) in 2016, says Scott Kemble of Excelsior College. TESC has a BS in HLS degree, but the BSHS in Emergency Disaster Services looks more useful. COSC only has a BGS Individualized Study degree with a concentration in emergency management.
These three are the only real regionally accredited colleges that truly allow non-traditional students to transfer in 117 of the 120 SH needed for a BS degree. Thomas Edison State College of New Jersey even has the “Arnold Fletcher Award” for students who have earned a minimum total of 90 credits from nontraditional learning.
According to President Obama’s new U.S. DOE college website (College Scorecard) these three college graduates on average make more money than the University of Oregon graduates where my daughter goes…..go figure!
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/search/?...ntage:desc
I would do this all again in a heartbeat and I am not done with Clackamas Community College. In the future, I will get a second degree from Clackamas just for lifelong learning.
Respectfully,
AAS-EM Student, Graduating Fall 2015
References:
Top 10 colleges with the highest paid liberal arts graduates By Carly Stockwell August 8, 2014
#9. Excelsior College: Albany, N.Y. at Excelsior, and graduates have high starting salaries of $50,000 a year and midcareer salaries of $77,000.
Colleges with the highest paid liberal arts graduates | USA TODAY College
Post-graduation medium salary (Excelsior) $51,700
Post-graduation medium salary (TESC) $50,000
Post-graduation medium salary (COSC) $43,800
Post-graduation medium salary University of Oregon (UO) $40,500
Charter Oak State College vs Thomas Edison State College vs Excelsior College vs...
Salary after attending: (Excelsior) *not listed
Salary after attending: (TESC) $49.100
Salary after attending: University of Oregon (UofO) $41,600
Salary after attending: (COSC) $38,800
US Department of Education Scorecard
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/search/?...ntage:desc
The Clackamas AAS-EM degree program was an excellent program for me. Hopefully Clackamas in the future will accept American Council on Education (ACE) credits from resident NETC/EMI/NFA/TEEX emergency management courses. EMI alone now has 46 American Council on Education (ACE) accredited courses. Clackamas is the best AAS-EM program in the Nation that truly follows current National emergency management doctrine.
Completing this degree you will accumulated many emergency management credentials that no other college or university will set you up with. The AAS-Emergency Management degree with an official Clackamas Community College transcript is the main credential. As collateral credentials you will also have FREE Emergency Management Institute official transcripts in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Two FEMA National Certificates (above) and one maybe one State Certificate earned directly from the curriculum from Clackamas. The EPP Honor Society is based 100% on your effort and is quite achievable.
AAS degrees in general are terminal degrees and not easy to transfer into the next level (BA/BS degrees), but I will find a way with the well-known aka “Big 3”….Excelsior College (NY), Thomas Edison State College (TESC) in New Jersey, and or Charter Oak State College (COSC) in Connecticut. These three regionally accredited colleges for non-traditional adults all take non-traditional credits (ACE, DSST, CLEP, JST, CPL, and CBA) that most colleges extremely limit or flat out refuse to accept. Excelsior (EM minor) is coming out with a real emergency management BS degree (EM major) in 2016, says Scott Kemble of Excelsior College. TESC has a BS in HLS degree, but the BSHS in Emergency Disaster Services looks more useful. COSC only has a BGS Individualized Study degree with a concentration in emergency management.
These three are the only real regionally accredited colleges that truly allow non-traditional students to transfer in 117 of the 120 SH needed for a BS degree. Thomas Edison State College of New Jersey even has the “Arnold Fletcher Award” for students who have earned a minimum total of 90 credits from nontraditional learning.
According to President Obama’s new U.S. DOE college website (College Scorecard) these three college graduates on average make more money than the University of Oregon graduates where my daughter goes…..go figure!
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/search/?...ntage:desc
I would do this all again in a heartbeat and I am not done with Clackamas Community College. In the future, I will get a second degree from Clackamas just for lifelong learning.
Respectfully,
AAS-EM Student, Graduating Fall 2015
References:
Top 10 colleges with the highest paid liberal arts graduates By Carly Stockwell August 8, 2014
#9. Excelsior College: Albany, N.Y. at Excelsior, and graduates have high starting salaries of $50,000 a year and midcareer salaries of $77,000.
Colleges with the highest paid liberal arts graduates | USA TODAY College
Post-graduation medium salary (Excelsior) $51,700
Post-graduation medium salary (TESC) $50,000
Post-graduation medium salary (COSC) $43,800
Post-graduation medium salary University of Oregon (UO) $40,500
Charter Oak State College vs Thomas Edison State College vs Excelsior College vs...
Salary after attending: (Excelsior) *not listed
Salary after attending: (TESC) $49.100
Salary after attending: University of Oregon (UofO) $41,600
Salary after attending: (COSC) $38,800
US Department of Education Scorecard
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/search/?...ntage:desc
Non-Traditional Undergraduate College Credits (634 SH): *FTCC Noncourse Credits (156 SH) *DSST (78 SH) *CPL (64 SH) *JST Military/ACE (48 SH) *CBA (44 SH) *CLEP (42 SH) *FEMA IS (40 SH) *FEMA EM (38 SH) *ECE/UExcel (30 SH) *PLA Portfolio (28 SH) *EMI/ACE (19 SH) *TEEX/ACE (16 SH) *CWE (11 SH) *NFA/ACE (10 SH) *Kaplan/ACE (3 SH) *CPC (2 SH) *AICP/ACE (2 SH) *Sophia/ACE (2 SH) and *FRTI-UM/ACE (1 SH).
Non-Traditional Graduate College Credits (14 SH): AMU (6 SH); NFHS (5 SH); and JSU (3 SH).
Non-Traditional Graduate College Credits (14 SH): AMU (6 SH); NFHS (5 SH); and JSU (3 SH).
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