But what will be lost when trimming a year out of a college education?
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The blueprint for an American bachelor’s degree has remained essentially unchanged for more than a century. Ironically, one of its defining features – the college credit hour – wasn’t originally designed to measure learning at all.
It grew out of Andrew Carnegie’s effort to determine what colleges qualified for faculty pension programs. Formalized in the early 20th century by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the credit hour began as a time-tracking measure rather than a measure of learning…