You Can Now Get College Credit Without Ever Taking a Class
At 56, Linda McCampbell discovered she could get the college degree she always wanted.
A Nashville paralegal for 30 years, McCampbell last year attended an eight-hour workshop to judge how her life experience might be cashed in for academic credits at Lipscomb University. The promise was alluring: the possibility of knocking months off a college education McCampbell had long abandoned as out of reach.
It turns out she qualified for an entire academic year’s worth of credits, and at a fraction of what two semesters of tuition would have cost.
“It wiped out my freshman year,” says McCampbell, who earned those credits by proving she could deal with a full inbox of tasks and solve problems with a group. The boost was enough to cure her of the longtime belief a degree was out of reach.
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