Three prior learning program directors relate their experiences with program implementation. Three different types of institutions are represented: Sinclair Community College, State University of New York at Cortland, and American University, Washington, DC. Vital statistics and program descriptions are presented. (MLW)

Sinclair Community College's (SCC's) Experience Based Education (EBE) program offers an alternative approach to learning which operates outside the time, format, and place constraints imposed by traditional, classroom-based education. After introductory material defining EBE and tracing the increased recognition of adult, lifelong learning…

Discusses strategies for transforming community colleges to meet the highly individualized, experiential, community-based learning needs of adult students. Underscores the importance of making lifelong learning part of the institutional mission, administrative commitment, redefining faculty roles and financial underpinnings, an appropriate…