New Excelsior College Cornerstone Initiative; starting January 2020

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My question is, why isn't the basic information literacy stuff considered part of English Composition?

It should be a part of English Comp II. If I were running a school, I wouldn't allow credits for English Comp that didn't come from an accredited college.

Here in CA, where all of the CC's and CSU schools will accept most CLEP exams, they will not take English Comp.  They just actually require students to be able to write decently, and feel that they can't do that without taking a course.

They will accept AP exams, but those are different - they require a year of rigorous writing, followed by a very hard exam that is mostly written.  To score even a 3 is hard - only 57% pass.