This workshop is designed to cover all the questions you have about prior learning assessment but were afraid to ask! Designed as an introduction to prior learning assessment, the workshop will begin by laying a foundation by exploring the different opportunities students have to demonstrate their knowledge and learning, and the impact PLA has on organizational practices and student success.

There isn’t a “magic bullet” for outreach and marketing that guarantees you will enroll adult learners. Adults are a large and diverse population and their reasons for pursuing education - and issues that may be standing in their way - are broad and complex. What strategies are providing effective to reach adults? Does marketing always need to be costly to work well? This interactive session is designed to arm participants with an outreach action plan based on their target market and resources.

Both workforce and education systems can be daunting to navigate for the uninitiated. In this session, participants will learn the basics of change management in a cross-system environment, develop strategies for deployable referral processes, and learning about joint projects both organizations can work on towards common goals.

How do we create educational spaces in which everyone truly loves to learn, work, and thrive? This engaging and interactive workshop will provide an overview of the six phases of the Appreciative Education theory-to-practice framework. Through a combination of lectures, conversations with colleagues, and reflective activities, this workshop will focus on helping you build effective relationships with your students and colleagues!

Step into a more liberated way of working with students in, out, and impacted by carceral spaces. In this preconference exploration, we will unpack some of the barriers of this work, share successes, and collectively create a shared resource to take this work back to your own institutions for implementation and iteration.

This workshop explores how employers, postsecondary education, community-based organizations, and workforce development entities can (and must) collaborate to provide high-quality job training to connect adult learners to family-sustaining careers.

This four-hour pre-conference workshop is designed to equip academic leaders (Department Chairs, Deans, Provosts, etc.) with the tools they need to effectively, efficiently, and collaboratively lead Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) and Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) initiatives at their institutions.