Military Experience and Professional Training
National Louis University recognizes that significant learning experiences may have occurred during the course of the United States Armed Forces military service and through non-collegiate training programs or examinations completed at nontraditional educational companies and other organizations such as government agencies, unions, or businesses. NLU uses the American Council on Education’s Guide to the Evaluation of Educational Experience in the Armed Services and National Guide to College Credit to Workforce Training to evaluate military experience and professional workforce training. Credit will not be taken from another school’s transcript unless it is listed as experiential learning credit. In that case, it will be accepted as such. Specific documents will be required in order to do a military or professional training evaluation.
All colleges at NLU accept ACE credit. Programs in the National College of Education may also choose to accept ACE (pending any state mandated or regulations put on licensure programs), upon approval of program faculty, college leadership, and Provost office.
The application of prior learning credit for military experience and professional training has been specifically restricted to “general education” designated courses and program electives – when appropriate, programs seeking to include CPL options into their major, minor, and concentration coursework must consult with their program faculty, college leadership, and Provost.