Policy 4 – 05B: EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING CREDITS

Experiential learning credits, also known as “Life Experience Credits”, are credits that are awarded for already acquired college-level learning in a variety of non-traditional settings. Credits are not awarded simply for experience but for the learning obtained from the experience. This learning is judged to be equivalent to what would be gained through Quincy College coursework. All credit earned must be approved by the Experiential Learning Review Committee.

Eligibility Requirement:

Students must:

• Be enrolled in a certificate or a degree program.
• Have completed 12 credits in Quincy College.
• Be in good academic standing.
• Be at least 24 years of age.
• Must have a resume that demonstrates the type of experience appropriate for academic college-level credit assessment.

How to apply:

If a student is eligible for experiential credits, the following procedure should be followed:

• Complete an application for “Experiential Learning Credits” available in Enrollment Services.
• Attach all the documents for assessment in the form of a portfolio with application and return this portfolio to Enrollment Services with a non-refundable fee of $50.00.
• The Portfolio Review Committee, comprised of a Dean and an appropriate faculty member, will review the portfolio and inform the student, in writing, if the request has been approved or not. The review committee may ask the student for an interview, more documents or both. The Review Committee will also send a written determination to the Dean, Enrollment Services.
• If the request for credits is approved, fee per credit must be paid in Enrollment Services.
• The Dean, Enrollment Services will enter these credits on the student ’s permanent record.

Fees:

To cover administrative costs, students are charged a non-refundable portfolio assessment fee of $50 at the time of making a request for these credits. There is also a per credit Experiential Credit fee that must be paid before the credits are transferred to a student’s grade history. (Please check fee schedule).

Maximum Credits:

The total number of credits any student can transfer from all sources is thirty (30) in a degree program and fifteen (15) in a certificate program of which the maximum number of credits allowed under Experiential Learning is twelve (12) in a degree program and six (6) in a certificate program.

Exception:

Students who have Fire Science and Criminal Justice as their major do not qualify for any Experiential Learning credits.

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