TESU Eliminates SOME Study.com Transfer Credits [unconfirmed]

[jch]

One reason they may be removing Study.com is because they want less and less alternative credit options and having students transfer from RA sources... <gasp> I think they're going to be similar to COSC in that case, damn... I hope this is just a "courses" issue and not a "provider" issue... did Study.com renew all those courses already? I thought they did... let me email Study.com & TESU and we'll find out.

If TESU wanted to restrict alternative credit options, SDC isn't the logical place to start. Among alt-credit providers, they have some of the best academic integrity and rigor. Most SDC credits require both proctored exams and substantial assignments, while other providers often have only one or neither. This means that students using SDC are more likely to be competent in the material because BS-ing or cheating is harder. In my opinion, the workload and time involved with SDC courses can rival that of some actual college courses. The pendulum is definitely swinging against alt credit, but SDC isn't the next step in the progression of things. 
As we learned from the ACE/NCCRS limit experience last year, there is sometimes a nugget of truth in what the advisors say. However, we also know that they often provide exaggerated, misleading, incomplete, or just plain wrong information. 
I would consider a total block of SDC at TESU to be extremely unlikely. Still, students with any must-have or in-progress SDC courses should rush those to completion by EOY. 
There are two options that I'd consider to be much more probable: expiration of the SDC-TESU articulation agreement or an issue with one or more specific courses. 
An impending expiration of the partner relationship contract could easily be misconstrued as an ending of SDC credit acceptance. Although renegotiation would certainly be in process, the word may be getting out about a possible change. Even if this happened, I don't think that it would necessarily be a huge deal. The contract with TESU would no longer govern course transfers, but SDC and TESU continue to belong to the ACE credit system. Theoretically, students would fall back to the ACE regime, and life would move on with minimal changes. 
Alternatively, an acceptance or transfer issue may impact a subset of courses. The impact there would be limited, depending upon the specific courses. 
Regardless, I'm looking forward to actual clarification from SDC and/or TESU. This is the time to be on the lookout for EOY policy changes, and I'm curious what TESU has in store for us this year.