Ladelle (Bo) Harmon
Senior Director of Institutional Effectiveness, Accreditation and Policy
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Credit for Prior Learning
Policy
Â鶹ÊÓƵ (MTCC) provides its students with an opportunity to acquire meaningful credentials and secure living-wage employment through education and training. MTCC awards curriculum credit and continuing education credit for prior learning (CPL) for the following learning methods:
- Apprenticeship
- State or Industry Recognized Credentials
- Continuing Education to Curriculum Credit
- Curriculum Credit to Continuing Education
- Courses listed in high school to community college articulation agreements
- Military education and training
- Standardized examinations
- Challenge exams/Proficiency
- Public Safety Training (PST) prefix courses
In accordance with the State Board of Community College Code 1D SBCCC 800.1 through 1D SBCCC 800.8 and 1D SBCCC 800.10, CPL may be granted based on the following criteria:
- Documentation of prior learning meets or exceeds a demonstration of learning outcomes at the institutions’ standards for awarding credit for the corresponding curriculum course.
- Prior learning is directly applicable to a student’s declared curriculum program of study.
- CPL for advanced courses does not negate the requirement to meet requisite learning outcomes.
- CPL may be used to fulfill program requirements except for mandatory institutional requirements. Examples may include, but are not limited to requirements of external agencies that specifically prohibit the use of CPL to fulfill the program requirements.
Upon approval by the Chief Academic Officer, continuing education courses offered at MTCC meeting the same standards and quality as a curriculum course may be considered to fulfill the college’s institutional credit requirements, which prescribe the minimum percentage of credit hours (25%) a student must earn through instruction offered by the institution awarding the credential.
Upon approval by the Vice President for Workforce Development, curriculum courses offered at MTCC meeting the same standards and quality as a continuing education course may be considered to fulfil the college’s institutional credit requirements, which prescribe the minimum percentage of credit hours (25%) a student must earn through instruction offered by the institution awarding the credential.