New Excelsior College Cornerstone Initiative; starting January 2020

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Awesome, just what we were looking for.  Not shocking.

I will say that if you're looking at schools, a LOT of them have capstones (although they may have different names).  But the cornerstone thing is also prevalent, I've seen it at CC's & private schools quite a bit, and it's not new.  Many CA CC's have had students take an online cornerstone (maybe called "orientation to college" or "intro to college") and the private online schools have "intro to online learning".  Very common, for like 20-25 years (based on the transcripts I see).  Started back in the early 90's at a lot of places.

It's too bad that EC jumped on the bandwagon, but again, not surprising.

BTW - this now puts EC back at the same price as TESU - meaning COSC will DEFINITELY be the better way to go for most people, especially for a BALS/BSLS, and certainly for an AA (EC requires a capstone for their AA's).