The Employer and College Perspective

For the employer perspective, you can see a summary of Assessment Specialist John Scopelleti's outreach efforts with our co-op employers. 

For the college perspective, you'll find a list of the colleges/universities that have already been engaged in a phone conversation,  an email exchange,  or a Zoom with John Scopelleti. You'll also see a summary of the conversations John has had to this point.

This article from NPR discusses how some colleges are actually eliminating grades for first-year students. Some of the colleges involved include Roger Williams University, UNH, URI, Baylor University, UT-Austin, Reed, and Brown.

This article from the School Administrator magazine shares recent research into how some college and university admissions officials view standards-based grading. 

On February 23, 2023, the Aurora Institute and the NCAA hosted this webinar to talk about how colleges are determining eligibility for standards-based/competency-based transcripts. Here are the slides if you want to review this material at your own pace. The big takeaway is that enough high schools are using a standards-based system of grading that the NCAA has a plan in place to process them.