Ep. 168: Voices of Student Success: Encouraging Innovation in Credit for Prior Learning

The Key with Inside Higher Ed · Aug 7, 2025 · 28m

This series of Voices of Student Success focuses on adult learners in higher education, the various challenges they face and successful support mechanisms to aid their retention and completion.

Credit for prior learning (CPL) is one strategy colleges and states can employ to expedite adult learners’ progress toward degree and promote student success. Past research also shows that students’ who take advantage of f CPL opportunities have higher employment rates and increased earnings after graduation.

But administering CPL can be a challenge in part because of different departmental and…