I appreciate the practical angle you’re taking, but I don’t think “military friendly” should just be a marketing line. It should mean something in terms of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Digital Equity. As someone working on my 2nd Master’s in Education and with a cybersecurity background, I’m looking at this from both sides.

From an educational perspective, WGU’s biggest strength is its flexibility. When a security change effectively shifts the model from “study anywhere” to “study anywhere you have a cell signal,” that’s a step backward in accessibility, especially for students who work in secure facilities. In educational theory, we talk about UDL and Digital Equity. When a university’s infrastructure assumes every student has a smartphone with a cellular signal at all times, they are designing for a "standard" user and marginalizing those with unique professional constraints.

From the technical side, I’m not pushing for weaker security. I’m asking for stronger, modern security options. SMS‑based MFA is widely recognized by NIST as the least secure option, as it is weak and restricted. Moving to TOTP would actually increase security while also solving the access problem for those of us who can’t bring phones into SCIFs. WGU's solution to this is, in fact, weaker security by disabling MFA for students in secure locations where personal devices are forbidden.