There was previously some discussion on whether a handful of Meta Professional Certificates would be renewed or whatnot. It appears as though between 5 of their certs (a whopping total of 50 credits - WOW!) is valid as of yesterday, 1 October 2026 through September 30 2029. All of them are for LL credits.

Oooh! I don't think I like this.

So... Along with Space Academy, I have another fascinating project to follow. 

This one appears to be controversial on purpose. 


"Five additional colleges and universities will develop cadet corps—a broader form of military-aligned education than Reserve Officers’ Training Corps programs—Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday. While unveiling the new institutions his department is partnering with, Hegseth again criticized a wide swath of colleges as anti-American.


In a memo and speech, Hegseth announced that Hillsdale College and Liberty, Louisiana State, Mississippi State and Tuskegee Universities will be dubbed distinguished military colleges, a label the military once used but abandoned. Hillsdale and Liberty are conservative Christian institutions, while Tuskegee is a historically Black university. The department didn’t respond to Inside Higher Ed’s request for comment about how it chose the institutions.'


"The defense secretary criticized Ivy League and liberal arts institutions as “anti-American, DEI-worshipping woke factories” while announcing partnerships with five universities."

“The demand for grounded, strong and honorable leaders has never been more urgent,” Hegseth said during his State of the Force Address at Marine Corps Base Quantico. “Tomorrow’s leaders can’t simply manage crisis, they have to thrive within it while maintaining their true north compass heading. Only leaders of character, who cherish our Constitution and love our country, should lead our great military.”


https://www.insidehighered.com/news/institutions/specialized-colleges/2026/10/02/hegseth-5-colleges-will-develop-cadet-corps

Harvard Tested a Custom AI Physics Tutor – and Learning Gains Doubled in 49 Minutes
https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/meta-ai/articl...23766.html

What does this mean?

Does anyone know whether TESU will treat graduate courses in stats taken in a business school toward the AOS for a BA in Math?  While the courses had an applied bent, they were taken for doctoral credit with titles like linear statistical models, non-parametric stats,  time-series analysis,  bayesian statistics, etc.  I'm also curious if anyone was able to get graduate level econometrics count toward the AOS in math. Any insights?

I have been looking more closely at TESU's Military Technology Leadership programs and would be interested in hearing from anyone who has actually completed either the AAS or BS, especially military members from different MOSs.

The BS in Military Technology Leadership was actually the initial/default bachelor's evaluation TESU gave me when they first evaluated my JST and transcripts. That is what originally got me looking into the program.

Once I saw the evaluation, it made sense. My record is a mix of 25S SATCOM/electronics, networking/IT, PME, leadership, management, instructor training, and other military credit. MTL gives TESU a lot of flexibility to use credit that does not necessarily fit neatly into a conventional major.

I will not complete the BS MTL myself, but researching it made me think the program, and especially the AAS MTL, deserves more attention as an option for Soldiers.

Why the AAS MTL interests me

One reason the AAS interests me is that the Army does not have a service community-college system comparable to the Air Force's CCAF or the Navy's USNCC.
We get a JST showing our military training and ACE credit recommendations, but there is very little practical guidance on what to actually do with it or how those credits can be turned into a degree.

There are now a few more military articulation agreements and MOS-specific transfer pathways, which is an improvement. But from what I have seen, many are still pretty limited and are not dramatically better than some of the evaluations I received years ago.

At least with some of the newer agreements, a Soldier may be able to identify three or four courses ahead of time and know, "this military school should equal this college course." That is better than having no idea until after an evaluation, but there is still a large gap between having a JST full of ACE recommendations and having a clear academic pathway that shows a Soldier how to use them.

And for most traditional degree programs, a large portion of those JST credits may still never apply to an actual degree requirement. They may become free electives, duplicate credit, or simply go unused because there is no place for them in that particular program.

That is why something like the AAS Military Technology Leadership interests me. It can potentially provide a more flexible degree structure for a Soldier whose JST contains technical training, PME, leadership, and other credits that do not fit neatly into a traditional major.

Looking back, something like that would have been very useful to me as a junior enlisted Soldier.

I had my military credit evaluated by several schools over the years. Before completing ALC, I never really saw my JST fill an actual degree requirement.
Usually the best result was one or two general/free electives. Most of the military credit either sat unused or went somewhere that did not move the degree forward very much.

That was frustrating because there was substantial training behind those credits. My original 25S AIT included a large amount of electronics and SATCOM training, but the older ACE recommendations were fragmented into 1-SH and 3-SH pieces that did not fit cleanly into most traditional degree plans.

Things improved somewhat after ALC because the recommendations were in more usable 3-SH blocks. Even then, one of the few credits I saw sometimes fill a real degree requirement was the 3-SH Communications recommendation, which could be used for an oral-communication or speech requirement.

TESU was different because I could actually see much more of the military training translated into recognizable electronics, SATCOM, networking, leadership, management, communication, and other college-course equivalencies.

That does not mean every JST recommendation became useful credit. There are still duplicates, replacement credits, and some recommendations that do not appear as separate TESU equivalencies.

But compared with my earlier evaluations, TESU made much more meaningful use of the military training.

For someone who is hesitant about starting college, I think an associate degree can create a much more manageable first target:
JST/military training -> evaluation -> remaining Gen Eds -> associate degree -> bachelor's

Completing the AAS MTL also would not mean someone has to continue into the BS MTL.

Once they have that first degree and understand how their JST was evaluated, they can compare other bachelor's programs and choose what best fits their goals.
In my own case, I have been comparing:

• BS Technical Studies
  
• BS Professional Studies
  
• BS Organizational Leadership
  
• BSBA with General Management / Computer Information Systems
  
• BS Information Technology
  

• MOS/rating
  
• Major military schools completed
  
• Approximate JST/ACE credit
  
• Actual TESU equivalencies
  
• Initial degree TESU evaluated
  
• Whether you stayed with that degree or switched
  
• How MOS/AIT and PME credits were used
  
• Whether an associate degree made sense first
  
• What bachelor's route you eventually chose
  
  

Has anyone completed ETAMU's Master's in Organizational Leadership degree?

If so, what area of emphasis?  And would you mind sharing your experience please.

I was going through my messages and came across several emails for alumni merch sales leading up to homecoming. It got me thinking...
We traditionally hear of seniors purchasing a class ring in high school, but how common of a purchase are they among college students? 

Likewise, companies like Jostens have the "Uploma" which is a desk ornament with your school name, mascot, and degree etched in. Other folks I have known will buy (or frame themselves) a photograph of a well-known building or statue from their campus. Then there are all the alumni hats, shirts, pants, coffee mugs, car decals and so on... some folks will go to homecoming, while others do not... and finally, some folks donate money back to their schools, and others don't.

So my questions to all of you are, what is common where you live? What rings, clothes, mugs, photos, or other swag do YOU have? ...and for those of us with multiple schools under our belt, how do you balance things? Is one school considered your "alma mater"  while another isn't. Do you think more of your undergraduate program, or your graduate school(s)?
Do you have a fondness for your athletic program, or do you cheer for another school ?

Let me hear your thoughts.

Has anyone transferred the IBM SkillsBuild Cybersecurity Certificate to TESU or UMPI?

Just to clarify, I am talking about the IBM SkillsBuild Cybersecurity Certificate, not the IBM Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate offered through Coursera.

I completed the SkillsBuild certificate through UoPeople. The current ACE recommendation is:
ACE ID: IBM-0028
12 semester hours total:

• 3 SH LL – Fundamentals of Cybersecurity
  
• 3 SH UL – Technology Management
  
• 3 SH UL – Cybersecurity Analysis
  
• 3 SH UL – Threats and Incident Response
  
  

I wanted to start a thread for UPI Study (University Pathways International) transfer results, especially for TESU.
UPI has its own TESU transfer/equivalency page, and TESU also lists UPI as an approved provider:

UPI -> TESU:
https://www.upistudy.com/pages/tesu

TESU Approved Provider Directory:
https://www.tesu.edu/admissions/methods-...ectory.php

There are also some useful community-created transfer guides, including MajorMash:
https://www.majormash.com/

I signed up for UPI a while back mainly as a way to work through some of the Gen Ed gaps on my TESU evaluation. The lifetime-access option was a big reason I went with it because it takes some of the pressure off — I can work through courses at my own pace instead of worrying about a subscription clock.
There are also quite a few Computer Science courses I am interested in. Some would basically be repeating subjects I studied years ago, but most schools will no longer accept those older credits because of their age, so UPI could be a useful way to refresh the material and get current transferable credit at the same time.

One thing I have noticed is that the published TESU information still does not cover everything UPI offers. A number of the Gen Ed courses, including things like English Composition I and II, are not shown in some of the transfer information


UPI also shows two types of mappings:

• Verified by TESU
  
• Reviewed/recommended by UPI, but not yet TESU verified
  

• Project Management
  
• CS 373 – Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
  
• CS 251 – Data Structures and Algorithms
  
• CS 381 – Database Programming
  
• CS 390 – Systems Analysis and Design
  
• CS 354 – Introduction to Operating Systems
  
• English Composition II
  
• Physics I / Lab
  

I was curious to see if there were any new CBE programs that have been released that we haven't discussed about on here and there seems to be a few. C-BEN has listed 5 new programs, of particular interest, Dallas College (which is already on our CBE wiki) has recently released a new CBE program for a Bachelor of Applied Science in Management. The program has total cost of $11,880 for 120 credit hours (less if you transfer in 60-90 credits). 

The following is a general breakdown of the requirements for the first two years, third year, and fourth and final year:

First Two Years - 60 credit hours
Complete two-year degree (AAS, AA, or AS). Earn associate degree providing technical, occupational, or academic transfer preparation.   

Third Year – 30 credit hours                
Complete remainder of bachelor’s-level core requirements, if any, and foundational business coursework.

Fourth and Final Year – 30 credit hours
Complete the following prescribed, upper-division, competency-based management coursework. Courses are taken in sequential order. All courses are three credit hours for a total of 10 courses and 30 credit hours.

• UNIV 3334 Management Principles
  
• TMGT 3338 Accounting for Managers
  
• TMGT 3309 Marketing for Managers
  
• UNIV 4335 Leadership Principles
  
• TMGT 3303 Communication and Conflict Resolution
  
• TMGT 4310 Human Resources Principles and Practice
  
• TMGT 4396 Project Management
  
• TMGT 3311 Information Technology for Managers
  
• TMGT 4398 Strategic Management
  
• TMGT 3336 Legal Issues for Managers