Northeast Resiliency Consortium Colleges’ Prior Learning Assessment Policy, Standards Development and Practice

Authors

  • Meredith Archer Hatch Senior Associate Director for Workforce and Academic Alignment Achieving the Dream, Inc.
  • Faeizeh Amini Director Center for Self-Directed Learning Bunker Hill Community College
  • Harold Damato Director of Prior Learning Assessment Passaic County Community College
  • Michele Stewart Director of Grant Funded Workforce Development Initiatives LaGuardia Community College
  • Sherwood LaValle Taylor Atlantic Cape Community College image/svg+xml

Abstract

This practice article describes prior learning assessment (PLA) policies and practices from four “Achieving the Dream” colleges in the Northeast Resiliency Consortium (NRC): Bunker Hill, Atlantic Cape, LaGuardia, and Passaic County Community Colleges (all located in the USA). These colleges acknowledge that college-level learning occurs on the job, in the community and in peoples’ lives.  They have developed and implemented PLA on their campuses to enable community members to earn credentials more quickly. In this effort, they have been aided by the NRC’s PLA Standards.

Author Biographies

  • Meredith Archer Hatch, Senior Associate Director for Workforce and Academic Alignment Achieving the Dream, Inc.
    Meredith Archer Hatch, Senior Associate Director for Workforce and Academic Alignment at Achieving the Dream, Inc., leads Achieving the Dream’s workforce development initiatives and creates services and tools to help colleges better align academic and career development in order to achieve greater equity and better outcomes for students. She collaborates across organizations and sectors to align Achieving the Dream's overall institutional change programming, knowledge development, policy, and public engagement efforts with growing emphasis on academic and workforce alignment. Previously Meredith served as Associate Director of Programs and Policy and managed Achieving the Dream’s policy portfolio, supported institutional change at member institutions, and analyzed and synthesized lessons learned across the Achieving the Dream network. Meredith was an invited speaker to the United States Embassy in Slovenia in 2011. Meredith holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Psychology and a Masters of Public Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  • Sherwood LaValle Taylor, Atlantic Cape Community College

    Director, Workforce Development

    Atlantic Cape Community College

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Published

2017-04-06

Issue

No. 6 (2018): PLA Policies and Standards: Institutional, Regional, National, International and Transnational

Section

Practice Today

License

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How to Cite

Northeast Resiliency Consortium Colleges’ Prior Learning Assessment Policy, Standards Development and Practice. (2017). PLA Inside Out: An International Journal on Theory, Research and Practice in Prior Learning Assessment, 6(6). https://plaio.org/index.php/home/article/view/125