Starting last fall, West Los Angeles College made it a requirement that all transfer-oriented students learn about opportunities to get credit for prior work experience, either during meetings with a ...

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This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Laylah Rivers had already been a paratrooper in the U.S. Army and worked at various tech companies across the West ...

Luckily, West Los Angeles College has a program that acknowledges students’ prior work experience. The college gave her seven credits, the equivalent of about two classes, after she provided a copy of ...