In October 1998, the ASCE Board of Direction passed one of its most future-focused educational policies - ASCE Policy Statement 465 on the "First Professional Degree" (subsequently renamed "Academic Prerequisites for Licensure and Professional Practice"). Since then, ASCE has been engaged in a major strategic initiative, commonly referred to as the "Raise the Bar" initiative, to enhance the educational prerequisites for entry into the practice of civil engineering at the professional level. In 2002, ASCE created the Committee on Academic Prerequisites for Professional Practice (a.k.a., CAP~3) to advocate and develop strategies to implement Policy Statement 465 and, in effect, raise the bar for the civil engineering profession.
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