Unity College offers academic credit for real-world experience
Maine's Unity College has received a $291,000 grant from the Davis Education Foundation to offer academic credit for real-world experience. The funding will go towards a comprehensive academic credentials system that will allow students to get credit for non-academic work and will potentially be part of a year-round academic schedule. The project costs nearly $4m and will launch in autumn 2020.
WORK CREDIT: First- and second-year experiences for students at Unity College in Maine might look different for incoming classes, thanks to a $291,000 grant the college received from the Davis Education Foundation. According to a press announcement, the grant money will specifically go towards funding a “comprehensive academic credentialing system and an immersive, potentially year-round, academic schedule.” That will likely include more opportunities for students to earn credit for non-academic work “not acknowledged on a traditional transcript.”

“The world needs graduates who do things rather than simply know things. This is an ambitious endeavor to blend real-world work, co-curricular activities, and other learning opportunities into a seamless transition for our students,” Unity College President Melik Peter Khoury said in a prepared statement.

The project costs nearly $4 million in total and will officially launch in fall 2020.