Prior Learning from Experience allows people with significant professional and/or community-based experience to kick-start or accelerate a college degree.  Students receive significant support from peers and faculty in learning how to assemble a portfolio that shows the “college equivalent learning” they have gained through professional and/or community-based work.  Students earn credit through a combination of coursework and faculty evaluation of the completed essay, which is a separate and economical assessment that speeds time to degree.  Students completing a PLE document generally describe he experience as “transformative,” helping them to understand he college level equivalence of their professional and community-based experience, as well as preparing them for future academic and professional work. The program has a prerequisite course, which you will find under “Writing from Life.”  . You will also find further information, including a video, at http://www.evergreen.edu/eveningandweekend/priorlearning.htm . Finally, The Olympian wrote an article about the program, which you can find at http://www.theolympian.com/2013/07/10/2616654/learning-from-life-gets-less-expensive.html