PATHWAY CONNECTION

Camden County College (CCC) embedded CompTIA industry credentials into existing Cybersecurity courses at CCC. Students who have completed the CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+, and CySA+ and Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Administration certifications will receive credit for the associated course at CCC. Correspondingly, students who complete their academic courses will be prepared to sit for the CompTIA certification exam and become employed in the workforce certifications.  

CCC has convened an institution-wide task force to define and determine prior learning assessment pathways at the college. CompTIA, Microsoft, and Cisco certifications and their relationship to credit classes will be further defined during this process. 

Rowan College at Burlington County developed a Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) Toolkit to assist colleges with the noncredit to credit evaluation and or portfolio review options of PLA. The layout for this toolkit is based on the “phases of implementing a project,” planning, developing, implementing and launching. In each stage, there is a brief descriptor of the process, important questions for consideration, and sample documents, challenges and questions.