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Enhancing PLA for Student Veterans at UW: Challenges and Opportunities

Join Dr. Sam Powers to explore the Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) process for military credit, discussing the current status and ways to improve granting experience-based credit at UW. Discover the resources and support available to student veterans through the Student Veteran Life (SVL) program. Explore intersectionality and the chosen identities for this year and the next.

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Enhancing PLA for Student Veterans at UW: Challenges and Opportunities

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  1. ADVISING STUDENT VETERANSDr. Sam PowersApril 27, 2018UW/CC Conference

  2. What is PLA? Military Credit JST/CCAF How are we doing at granting experience-based credit in WA? How can we do better at UW? Prior Learning Assessment

  3. This might be what it feels like…

  4. And This is why. UW Student Veterans • Total Student Veterans: 1,044 • Total Undergrad SVs: 405 • Average Age: 29 UW Student Body • Total Students: 46,081 • Total Undergrads: 31,418 • Average Age: 21

  5. This is where We come in • Counseling Services • Major Events • Outdoor Recreation • Television • Video Games • Service Dog • FREE Coffee • FREE Printing • FREE Testing Materials • Computers and Laptops

  6. What is Student Veteran Life? • The mission of SVL: to help veterans successfully transition to the University of Washington, thrive in their studies, and launch into a successful, post-college life • Founded by student veterans, for student veterans • Our office is responsible for everything having to do with student veterans outside of Financial Aid and GI Bill benefits

  7. RESOURCES • Whole Veteran Initiative • Community Engagement • Advocacy • Beyond the U

  8. Intersectionality is the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.

  9. CHOSEN IDENTITIES FOR YEAR 1 CHOSEN: • LGBTQ • Disabilities • Parents • People of Color • Women • First Gen Students ID’D FOR NEXT YR: • Foreign military vets • Diff gen vets • Religion • Homeless

  10. THANKS! Any questions? Sam Powers, PhD sapowers@uw.edu Office: vetlife@uw.edu (206) 221-0830

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