LaGuardia Community College in Queens, N. and, is creating a credit office for prior learning and plans to launch an enrollment initiative that will be the first for the New York University system in the city. The new office is dedicated to granting work adults, especially those who return to college, loans for work experience and achievements outside the classroom that will help them get grades in less time.
The Office will supervise a re-registration campaign encouraging any former university student in New York City to enroll in Laguardia. The return students will begin with credits given by their previous work experiences. Under the credits for the successful initiative, students who previously attended a CUNY institution to which they owe should not have to pay those debts. On the other hand, the debts will be paid by the Laguardia Community College Foundation. The Office will be funded by a $ 1 million grant from the Robin Hood Foundation, an organization committed to address poverty in New York City.
Determine how to grant credits for a wide variety of life and work experiences, from military service to self-conditioning, work, is a "case-by-case process, intensively in labor, and You need an office, "said Kenneth Adams, President of LaGuardia Community College. "Our belief in Laguardia was, to do well, we need a dedicated team of experts to facilitate the award of credit for prior learning for these students and obtain them in a soft ripple process, a smooth return to college".
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The CUNY trustee meeting created a Policy throughout the system by 2020 to optimize the award credits for prior learning through the campuses, and that the laguardia work begins in this issue.
Becky Klein-Collins, Vice President of Research and Impact at the Adult and Experiential Learning Council, said that it offers credits for prior learning sends a "really powerful" message to adults who already have valuable knowledge to contribute to the classroom.
"What you are doing is that you are validating them as students," she said. "Many adults, all their lives have been told," you know, you are not a university material, so you should take this different path. "Or perhaps have had a bad experience in their previous academic trips and have come to that conclusion by Your account in some way or internalized that kind of criticism of themselves. " googleg.cmd.push (function () googleg.display ("dfp-ad-article_in_article"););
In contrast, give credits for work outside of college, tells adults, "has been learning many things in their work and life experiences, all things that have taken it to where it is today. Not only It has been a stagnant person, "and those lessons and skills count.
Klein-Collins said positive messaging and granting life credits attract students. A brief research of 2022 of Cael and the Strada Education Network found that 84 percent of adults who were described with the same chance of enrolling at the university said the options to gain credit for life experiences would have a Strong influence on your college choice. Another report, by the Council and the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, found that adult students who received credits for prior learning were more likely to complete the university than similar students without credits.
Adams believes that it grants the credits is especially relevant in New York City. Almost 700,000 New Yorkers attended some university, but they never earned a title, and constitute more than 14 percent of all residents of the city between the ages of 25 and 64, according to a 2021 report of the
