Big News in
Competency-Based Education!
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WE’RE ENROLLING FOR FALL 2024!
So many of you have been asking about our exciting Competency-Based Education (CBE) program that we couldn’t wait to share the news: We’re now enrolling students for this fall.
Program Director Dr. Nichole LaGrow and Instructional Designer Marty LaGrow (pictured) have informed us that our accrediting body, the Higher Learning Commission, has given us approval to offer the first component of our nontraditional education program: a Competency- Based Theology Education (CBTE) minor. This minor is comprised of six theology courses that are required for adult learners who want to serve in the public ministry.
Learners enrolled in the theology minor will complete two courses every 15 weeks, with about a week between terms. The courses will follow a structured sequence and are intentionally designed with the returning adult learner in mind. The course of study also includes weekly synchronous meetings to support learners as they connect Scripture to their lives as Christian educators.
Completion of this CBTE minor is the first step for these returning adult learners who want to serve as teachers within our Lutheran elementary schools. When they finish, we hope to have approval for the next component of the program, so they can seamlessly move ahead!
Interested in applying for the theology education minor? We’re now enrolling learners for this fall and plan to have additional cohorts in spring 2025 and summer 2025. Please contact Dr. Nichole LaGrow (lagrowna@mlc-wels.edu/507.354.8221). And get weekly updates at mlc-wels.edu/nep/
Competency-Based
Education is . . .
a way we can assist adults who want to be WELS teachers but cannot uproot their families and quit their jobs to pursue a traditional four-year on-campus experience here in New Ulm.
This program recognizes these adults’ life experience and job-embedded skills, allowing them to earn their college degrees while staying in their own communities and continuing in their own jobs, some of which are in WELS schools!
They can’t come to MLC,
but through CBE,
MLC can come to them!
Thank you for your gifts to
Competency-Based Education!
It’s your generous gifts that have gotten us this far! The program will be self-sustaining in a few years, but not just yet. If you’d still like to give, please contact VP for Mission Advancement Mark Maurice at mauricme@mlc-wels.edu/507.354.8221.
