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Monthly CPL Q&A Drop-Ins – register here
Led by Candace Rose, CPL Coordinator and Tina Barlolong, CPL Counselor, these drop-ins are an opportunity for colleagues to ask questions and get guidance on all things CPL. And if we can’t answer your question, we’ll do our best to find you some resources.
Workshops:
April 10, 2025:
- Developing CPL Pathways: A Student-Centered Approach (Zoom recording)
- Workshop Slides
- Q&A Questions from attendees
Nov 6, 2024:
CCCCO Vision Resource Center: “CPL: Planning through Implementation” playlist
“Credit for Prior Learning: Planning through Implementation” six module playlist. These trainings are designed to support CPL leads.
To access these modules, log in by entering your email at visionresourcecenter.cccco.edu/login and search for “Credit for Prior Learning: Planning through Implementation” or search by individual modules:
- “Credit for Prior Learning: Introduction”
- “Credit for Prior Learning: Getting Started”
- “Credit for Prior Learning: Working with Faculty”
- “Credit for Prior Learning: Working with Staff and Administrators”
- “Credit for Prior Learning: Working with Curriculum Committee”
- “Credit for Prior Learning: Working with Counselors and Veteran Services”
CCCCO and Success Center CPL Toolkit
Counselor Resources
Curriculum Management System & CPL
Data Reporting
Petition Form examples
Policies (CCC, CSU, UC) & Data Reporting
- CPL Board Policy: BP4235
- CPL Administrative Procedure updated 4/11/23: AP4235
- CCCCO Guidance System Memorandum ESS 20-300-001 Credit for Prior Learning
- CCCCO CPL Updated Guidelines and Reporting Requirements
- ACCJC Policy-on-Credit-for-Prior-Learning_June-2024
- Cal State and CPL EO 1036
- UC and CPLguidance
- UC Transfer Credit Practices
- CPL BOG Policy Title V §55050
- ASCCC Adopted Resolutions April 22, 2023 7.04. Review of Credit for Prior Learning Regulations
- Senate Bill No. 1071
- Senate Bill No. 466
Portfolio Rubric Examples
- CPL Portfolio Rubric Generator
- Palomar Portfolio Review Templates
- Palomar Rubric Examples
- West Hills College: Standard portfolio review framework example
- Portfolio Review – eportfolio in Canvas
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Additional CPL Tools
- TEMPLATE Palomar College CPL Inventory This spreadsheet is designed to help faculty create an inventory of CPL courses within their discipline.
- ACE Military Guide
Key Roles, Duties and Scope of Work
- CPL Roles Breakdown (draft proposal to leadership)
- CPL Key Roles
- CPL Coordinator Job Duties This is an evolving list of job duties for the CPL Coordinator position at Palomar College.
- CPL Coordinator Scope of Work This is an evolving spreadsheet that aligns the CPL work with Guided Pathways
- Candace Rose BIO
Outside Resources
- Closing Equity Gaps in Credit for Prior Learning (CAEL 2024)
- Leveraging a Lifetime of Knowledge: How Credit for Prior Learning Can Help Older Adults and Veterans
- Edsource: Why many colleges are giving more credit for learning outside the classroom
- Credit for Prior Learning: Leveraging Past Learning to Close Present-Day Equity Gaps
- Racial Equity and Prior Learning Assessment
- CAEL:
- Flex-Learning-Report-Final
- ACE: Reimagining Transfer for Student Success
- ACE Military Guide_Institution Onboarding Guide_April 2021 (1)
- ASCCC: Credit for Prior Learning as an Equity Lever
- Recognition of Learning Tool Box Collaborative efforts provided by the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment for the Learning Recognition Collaborative – an online repository to assist colleges in the recognition of learning.
- Prior Learning Assessment Inside Out: An International Journal on Theory, Research and Practice in Prior learning Assessment
- Lumina Foundation: America’s Call for Higher Education Redesign 75% of Americans would be more likely to enroll in Higher Ed if they could be evaluated and receive credit for what they know.

