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\"1309-kim_article\"<\/a>As an increasing number of individuals realize the need for continued education, yet also face the realities of taking care of families in a tough economic climate, some Americans are asking if traditional college or graduate degrees are the solution.\u00a0 Perhaps these degrees do more to show how much money an individual has or how much time an individual spent in class, not actually what skills that individual has to offer to an employer.<\/p>\n

In response, various industries, non-traditional educational institutions, and employers are creating unique programs by which students can gain credits, badges, or certifications to verify the skills that they have.<\/p>\n

Anne Kim, writing in the Washington Monthly, <\/i>reports:<\/p>\n

Web browser maker Mozilla launched<\/i> openbadges.org<\/a><\/i> in 2011 to promote what they call \u201cdigital badges\u201d to anyone who can demonstrate that they\u2019ve mastered a specific skill. Much like Boy Scout merit badges, participants can earn their way up the badge ladder. Aspiring Web designers, for example, can earn a badge as a \u201cCode Whisperer,\u201d an \u201cEditor,\u201d a \u201cDiv Master,\u201d or a \u201cSuper Styler,\u201d depending on their ability to demonstrate their coding skills and to build their own Web projects. At the top are the \u201cHTML Basic\u201d and \u201cI am a Webmaker\u201d badges, stepping stones for becoming the Eagle Scout of the Mozilla digital badge world: a \u201cMozilla Webmaker Master.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

As another example, the manufacturing industry began developing its own system of industry-approved credentials for prospective employees. In 2011, the Manufacturing Institute unveiled a pyramid of \u201cstackable credentials\u201d that workers can collect in the same way that budding Webmasters can earn a progression of badges from Mozilla. At the bottom of the pyramid is a basic credential\u2014the National Career Readiness Certificate developed by the ACT testing service\u2014attesting to the core workplace skills, such as critical thinking and teamwork, that every worker is expected to have. At the top are a variety of \u201cskills certifications,\u201d also organized by increasing levels of knowledge, that workers can earn in specific jobs such as machining, welding, construction, and automation. \u201cMachining Level I,\u201d for example, qualifies a worker for entry-level jobs, while \u201cMachining Level III\u201d would put someone in the running for the highest-paid and most advanced work\u2014with a potential salary of up to $80,000. In the past two years, more than 84,000 manufacturing workers have earned certifications under the new system, and the industry\u2019s goal is to issue at least 500,000 by 2016.<\/i><\/p>\n

In addition, Walmart announced a new work-for-credits partnership with the online American Public University (APU) in 2010 that provides its employees with college credit for work experience. Roughly 100 different positions qualify for the program, including cashiers, store managers, photo technicians, and inventory supervisors. To get the credit, full-time workers have to be on the job for at least one year, get good performance reviews, and take part in in-house trainings. Karan Powell, APU\u2019s provost, says approximately 5,000 Walmart employees nationwide are now enrolled in the program.<\/i><\/p>\n

Probably the best example of the sort of individual who can benefit from these new programs is former truck driver and Army vet, Joe Weischedel.\u00a0 As a professional truck driver, Weischedel spent two decades hauling everything from produce to chemicals up and down the East Coast and across the country. On his longest hauls, he\u2019s spent as much as four weeks away from home. After stints in community college as well as Temple University in Philadelphia, Weischedel joined the Army for four years and served as a combat medic. Around 2000, he tried college again with a few online classes at the University of Maryland and the University of Phoenix but ended up dropping out.<\/i><\/p>\n

In 2010, he resumed the college education he had abandoned years earlier and enrolled online at APU. After receiving college credit for the skills he picked up in the military, it took him two years to earn his degree, taking two classes at a time and studying (while sometimes attending classes online) in hotel rooms on the road. This summer, he graduated with a bachelor\u2019s degree, with honors, in transportation and logistics management. He also earned a professional certification from the American Society of Transportation and Logistics.<\/i><\/i><\/p>\n

Today, Weischedel is looking at senior logistics management jobs that could quadruple his current salary driving trucks. \u201cI had the practical experience, but I didn\u2019t have the paper,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was a ceiling before, but now I\u2019ve broken through.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

For more information, please visit: http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/magazine\/september_october_2013\/features\/a_matter_of_degrees046452.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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