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The Herald and The Lantern

Wednesday, February 11. 1981

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TRENTON — A pew door 'has been opened to adult students throughout New .Jersey by Thomas A. Edison State College which has established a statewide testing and assessment center for adults wanting to earn college credits and degrees through nontraditional means Working with a network of eight other New Jersey colleges, the Edison , facility will provide counseling, testing and Individual assessment sendees to students who have acquired-through ^.whatever means—college'^level knowledge and skills. . • and who desire college credit for what they already know. Students do not have to enroll at Edison

to make use of the services provided by the centef. FUNDED TUROUVill a grant from the Fund for the • Improvement of PostSecondary Education (FIPSE). the center will serve as, an extension of existing services of Edison College, Foundedin 1972 by the New Jersey Board of High Education as New Jersey's "College Without Walls.'' Edison offers adult students the oppjgtunity to

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degrees withtj^, attending formal collegeolasses. The center will assftt students at other institutions to earn credit by making maximum use of the nontraditional tools already in

place at Edison.

Although each of the

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participating institutions in the center will be responsible for developing its own policies and procedure, for Swarding credit based upon prior learning, membership in the center requires that each institution have in place a policy consistent .with the primary goal : to provide increased educational flexibility to adult students. t STUDENTS COMING to tfic center may earn college^ credit through standardized examinations or through the development of d portfolio which describes and documents the prior learning they hope to earn credit for. Working with trained faculty assessors at each institution. credit recommendations will be made through the center to the student’s home institution. The center itself does not award credit. It provides counseling and program advisement for students in conjunction with the student’s home

institution.

Beyond providing issistance to individual students, the center will also serve several institutional needs by helping each participating college develop fair and equitable policies for the use of nontraditional testing and assessment methods and by encouraging more traditional institutions to make increased use of the non-traditional options available for the awarding of academic credit. THE EIGHT COLLEGES currently

participating in the centfer are: Caldwell College, the College of Saint Elizabeth. Glassboro State College. Middlesex County College. Richard Stockton State College. Rutgers University (University College. Newark, >, Somerset County College, and Trenton State College. Four additional institutions will be added to this initial group by July. 1981. By steadily increasing- membership of the center, the directors of the center envision that it will serve as a model for other regional networks

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CCC Workshop Focus On Law

VINELAND - Law enforcement careers will be the focus of a free program at Cumberland County College slated for 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow. Numerous law enforcement agencies will be represented, including the Millville Police Department, the State Police, the Secret Service, the Durg Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Tobacco and Firearms Administration. There will be a panel discussion of virtually all aspects of employment in these agencies. For informption, call the Transi* lions Program at 691-8600, extension 71.

FOLLOWING THROUGH oivhis endorsement. State Sen. James S. CaHero Is the first to sign petition of Assemblyman James R. Hurley In his bid for Cafiero's Senate seat. Looking on are Hurley, seated. Lawrence Pepper Jr.. Cumberland County Republican chairman, ieft, and Philip Matalucci. Cape may County GOP chalr-

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