Minutes
of the
Military Credit for Prior Learning Action Project
Meeting Date: April 8, 2014
Start and ending times: Begin - 11:30 am, End 12:30 pm
Location(s): ETSS Office, GMB 111
Members present: Brett Burtis, John Sutton, Dave Marquith, Elaine Goodrich-Premo,
Gina Kidneigh
Members not present: None
Guests: None
First agenda item – Intro Gina and ACE webinar opportunities.
Discussion:
 Gina was recently hired by the District as the TAACCCT round 3 grant
advisor. Part of her duties includes advising vets on CPL. Introductions were
made all around. There was a short discussion on how Brett primarily works
with vets on admissions, advising, and ordering the JST. If a student is
interested in MCPL, he will refer them to Gina for further information and help
in applying for CPL.
 Information on an upcoming ACE webinar called “Demystifying Military
Evaluations” was presented to the members. This would be useful when
talking to faculty to help them understand the detailed process that ACE uses
when making a credit recommendation. Webinar dates are: 4/18, 7/11, and
9/5 at 12:00. Register at www.acenet.edu/events/pages/demystifyingmilitary-evaluations.aspx.
Decision/Conclusion: None.
Action Required: None.
Second agenda item - Report out on research for our chosen courses.
Discussion:
 Dave brought up the point that paying half the tuition to obtain CPL credit is
too high. It should be free or a very low cost.
 HUMN 1060 - Brett:
o Met with Mercedes; she will be the faculty approver.
o Using and understanding action verbs (Bloom’s taxonomy)
will be essential in demonstrating competency in a narrative
submission.
o Need to explain what each competency means, prepare a
list of sample questions whose answers would show
competency, and then generate a sample response for each
competency.
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o Need to build a rubric/checklist. Mercedes believes each
competency will be met/not met, and not a Likert scale.
o Researching the ACE database for specific MOSs or schools
that equate to HUMN 1060 didn’t yield any results applicable
to a broad majority of enlisted service members.
CO/M 1030 - Elaine:
o Has been researching ACE for recommendations based on
recruit training and first level leadership schools.
o Trying to find a way to get all E1 to E4s credit.
Leadership course - John:
o Has been researching Army and Marine Corps NCO
schools.
o Has found an outline for Fundamentals of Marine Corps
Leadership from the Marine Corps Institute.
o Will need to build 8-9 competencies for a 3 credit course.
o Course will be broad based leadership and management
and not just military leadership.
POLS 2310 - Dave: hasn’t had a chance to get started on that yet.
Decision/Conclusion: Continue to develop a submission process for each
course.
Action Required: Build a “workbook” or checklist for portfolio submission.
Third agenda item - Transcript evaluation checklist.
Discussion: Elaine provided copies of a checklist to outline the MCPL process.
The checklist follows the staff and student work flow. This will be very useful for
Brett and Gina as they start working with incoming students.
Decision/Conclusion: none.
Action Required: none.
Minutes prepared by: Brett Burtis
Date: March 26, 2014
Next meeting date, times, location: April 15, 11:30 in ETSS Office.
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