Just makes sense. Especially in the CVI environment, design that starts at the finish line is going to create programming and credentials that result in great outcomes data for value metrics. There's nothing wrong with great programming and credentials that prepare people for success; such efforts just won't be able to compete with those that have the learners' success baked into the design.

Vital opportunity for Humanities: intentional effort to create high quality WIL for learners combined with proactively gathering and reporting on data such as described here could be a recipe for successfully navigating the Credentials of Value reality. Rather than see degree level programs clumsily crosswalked to earnings outcomes that misidentify value, connect WBL accessed through our programs of study to that outcomes data.

Gates Foundation: "holistically meet the needs of their students" which makes me think about - Persistence - Quality (getting the learning they came to get) - Relevance (WIL) - Advising + support services - Community (belonging, mentors, friends) - Purpose + Meaningfulness (it's what learners want and it's what motivates people)

Remove guess work. Transparency demystifies and makes clear what credentials are credentialing.

Knowing that credentials earners then become wage earners is important. It is a relatively reliable signal that the credential carries value. It's also a clumsy proxy for answering the far more vital question of whether the credential is a valuable resource for meeting the skills employers seek in order to fill living wage jobs.

We know what the credential is credentialing. We know how the credential compares and relates to other credentials. And we know that if someone has the credential, we can trust that they earned it.

Impetus is about funding based on short-term employment results, however the opportunity is for institutions to respond with more than a minimal compliance approach and instead take a more meaningful path that goes deeper and broader in serving learners with value now and for years to come.