Traces the history of and rationale for awarding college credit for experiential learning in order to avoid duplicating educational experiences, accommodate preferred learning styles, respond to social changes, and promote lifelong learning. Reviews methods of assessing and documenting prior learning. Considers implications for practice. (DMM)

Examines a study which determined and compared community college occupational program graduates' and leavers' views on actual and optimal amounts of general education. Indicates that the degree and certificate students had taken proportionately more general education courses than was required by the college or than they considered optimal. (DMM)

Describes a survey of 200 corporate employers regarding the proportion of the vocational curriculum that should be devoted to general education. Responding employers (51 percent) felt that general education should comprise approximately 30 percent of the vocational curriculum, and that communication, critical thinking, and employability skills…