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College of Education • The University of Texas at Austin
Paper #4 • July 2016
37 Million and Counting: Toward
Innovative Approaches to
Recruitment, Retention, and
Credentialing
Context of the Issue
I recently have been involved in an exploration,
examination, and analysis of Prior Learning Assessment
(PLA) and Competency Based Education (CBE) in higher
education institutions across the nation. While these
approaches have been around for decades, they have
resurfaced on the public radar due to a perfect storm
within the higher education/workforce development
landscape.
• College enrollment across the country
(particularly in many community colleges) is
declining or flat as the post-recession recovery has
spawned job growth across all sectors.
• The number of graduating high school students
has peaked (Husser, W.J., and Bailey, 2013).
Consequently, there will be fewer of these
traditional-age students in education and
employment pools.
• An estimated 37 million non-traditional (over age
24) U.S. adults have some college credits, but no
degree.
• A report (2015) by the nonprofit group Campaign
for College Opportunity estimates that about 4.5
million California adults never completed their
studies.
• Opportunity gaps for non-completer adults exist
nationwide, particularly in populous states such
as California, where about a third of African
American adults have some college credits, but no
degree (2015, Los Angeles Times).
• The U.S. Chamber of Commerce reports (2016)
that there are approximately 5.6 million unfilled
jobs across all sectors in the United States.
• The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation
(2016) is engaging employers in a Talent Pipeline
Management initiative focusing on the role
employers play as leaders or “end users” of
education/workforce collaborative partnerships.
• The Pew Research Center (2010) reports that
roughly 10,000 Baby Boomers (born 1946-64) will
turn 65 every day for the next 13 years. They
report that about 26 percent of the U.S. population
are Baby Boomers.
• Boomers’ busy lives and careers necessitate
convenience, flexibility, adaptability,
personalization, high tech, and high touch tools
if they are to successfully navigate the higher
education and training landscapes.
• Boomers want their earned knowledge and
life experiences acknowledged, validated, and
recognized. They want to able to demonstrate
what they know and not have to re-learn what
they already know.
• There are not consistent, specific, and targeted
strategies in many institutions to reach out to this
population of potential students.
National Conversations
In my many conversations with higher education
stakeholders at various institutions around the country,
I have received similar feedback regarding the need for
a new approach to re-engage the millions of students
who need to obtain a credential to enhance their value to
their current or future employers. Colleges are realizing
that the new, creative, innovative economy requires
a higher level of skill, mental dexterity, and critical
thinking. These colleges and their employer partners are
identifying skill shortages and the lack of an identifiable
talent pool to fill high-skill, high-wage current and future
employment. They are rightly concerned about the
looming perfect storm that will impact their way of life
as they currently know it.
I recall my conversation with a stakeholder from
a university in New Jersey that has 18,000 online
students. This particular university was founded as an
online, competency-based institution that understands
that it does not matter where or when you learned a
competency, as long as you can demonstrate that you
know it. This particular college provides multiple
avenues for students to gain credit such as credit by
exam, prior learning assessment (PLA), and competency-
based education (CBE). Students at this school enter with
an average of 60 college credits. They are not re-taught
what they already know. Rather, they are awarded
credit for the competencies they can demonstrate.
Thus, students earn a credential of value that enhances
workforce and economic development in that particular
region.
2. I had two recent conversations with stakeholders
from a community college and a university in the
state of Utah. Apparently, Utah is becoming the next
Silicon Valley (2015). Software firms such as Adobe and
Qualtrics have sprung up in addition to medical device
manufacturers and aerospace companies. The population
of areas such as Salt Lake City is growing extremely
fast. The natural beauty of the state and the winter
recreational activities are huge population draws as well.
My conversations were replete with discussions about
the need to meet the current talent needs of employers,
particularly in the Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Math fields. While the colleges there have great
programs and graduates, they are challenged to keep
up with the demand for highly skilled workers. Thus,
incumbent workers with previous college or with skill
competency in particular areas are excellent candidates
for CBE or PLA.
The 13 community colleges in the state of Colorado
are part of a statewide Colorado Community College
System. The colleges synchronize their PLA activities
with a statewide coordinator. I had a chance to speak
to the statewide PLA coordinator who explained how
the system works with each of the colleges to ensure
that there is consistency in the administration of
prior learning assessment. Each college has a position
responsible for prior learning assessment. I spoke via
phone with the Arapahoe Community College (ACC)
Graduation and Prior Learning Assessment Coordinator.
In addition to being extremely patient, knowledgeable,
and articulate regarding PLA, she was very patient
walking me through the various processes and protocols.
The ACC PLA website (https://www.arapahoe.edu/
admissions/transfer-college-credit/credit-prior-learning)
is well done, not only with clear processes to follow, but
costs associated with challenge exams, portfolio, and
certificate/ licensing, along with the number of credits
associated with each charge.
States like Colorado, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Kentucky, Ohio, Texas, Massachusetts, Arizona, New
York, New Jersey, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, among
many others, are focused on statewide synergy, scaling,
and collaboration as they engage in the good work yet
to be done in outreach to the 37 million-plus across
America. Collaborating with the Council for Adult
and Experiential Learning (CAEL), Competency Based
Education Network, American Council on Education,
U.S. Distance Learning Association, The Lumina
Foundation, and other stakeholders, educational and
training entities are working diligently to develop
effective institutional processes and practices to re-
recruit and retain adult learners.
What Leaders and Innovators Must Do Now
• We must collectively review, analyze, and make
use of the good work from the four rounds
of Department of Labor Trade Adjustment
Assistance Community College Career Training
(TAACCCT) funding designed to expand job-
driven training partnerships between community
colleges and employers. The TAACCCT Grants
were a $2B initiative (DOL, 2014).
• Review and use the good work and best practice
models of TAACCCT-funded projects such as the
TAACCCT-funded website Knowledge to Work
(www.knowledgetowork.com/) designed by Lord
Fairfax Community College.
• Understand PLA and CBE on the Competency
Continuum through CAEL (www.cael.org/pla/
publication/pla-and-cbe-on-the-competency-
continuum).
• Use CAEL’s 5-minute PLA assessment Credit
Predictor Tool on your college’s website as
does the CUNY School of Professional Studies
(https://earncollegecredit.org/cuny-sps/cp#/
home).
• Identify your state’s portion of the 37 million-plus
adults with some college credits and no degree
and develop a strategic and targeted marketing
plan (with metrics) to reach out to and re-enroll
and retain them.
• Review the Adult Completion goals and strategies
of the Lumina Foundation and various states
(www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/08/06/
texas-wants-60-percent-young-adults-hold-
college-degrees-2030).
• Develop specific and focused educational and
training partnerships and pathways such as The
Alamo Colleges Institutes (www.alamo.edu/
main.aspx?id=48814) or Houston Community
Colleges’ Centers of Excellence (www.hccs.edu/
centers/?utm_source=centers-of-excellence&utm_
medium=web&utm_campaign=hccs-redirects/)
or The City Colleges of Chicago College to
Careers initiative (www.ccc.edu/menu/pages/
college-to-careers.aspx).
• Develop a statewide PLA organizational
infrastructure such as Ohio Higher Ed’s (https://
ohiohighered.org/PLA-members).
• Prioritize Prior Learning Assessment at the state
level with a statewide Prior Learning Assessment
office with identified PLA coordinator positions
and contacts at each institution (www.cccs.edu/
current-students/prior-learning-assessment/).
• Train faculty (subject matter experts) in portfolio
assessment so that they are able to successfully
evaluate prior learning and identify if the learning
warrants the award of credit.
• Develop a comprehensive Search Engine
Optimized PLA/CBE website that is user-friendly
and navigable to potential PLA/CBE students.
Excelsior College has a user-friendly website
(www.excelsior.edu/transfer-more-credits/prior-
learning-assessment) where they offer Learning
Portfolios in partnership with CAEL through
LearningCounts.org. Houston Community
College has a user-friendly PLA website as well
(www.hccs.edu/district/students/acc).
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