photo by lan Walker model: Jonathan Wells Investigate now! You could get your degree or diploma in less time with less money. Students interested in getting credit for non-formal learning should investigate Prior Learning Assessment. Last year many students received PLA credits. Below you will find a description of PLA, our PLA policy and how to proceed. What is Prior Learning Assessment? PLA is a world-wide educational initiative that provides learners with the opportu- nities to identify and gain recognition for what they already know and can do. PLA is a process of identifying, assessing and recognizing knowledge to gain credit. It enables individuals to access learning more efficiently and to earn meaningful cre- dentials in less time and at less expense. It is an opportunity for ECIAD to accredit learning in diversified ways. PLA is a concept that states that credible, certifiable, post secondary level learning takes place throughout a lifetime. We learn in many ways including working, non- credit training, research, reading and community involvement. Until recently peo- ple returning to institutions and universities could not get credit for non-formal learning. The PLA system recognizes and respects what a person knows and can do regardless of where the knowledge is acquired. by Andre Arnold Concrete, cigarette butt, bird shit, and used gum. Got to get me a job producing nothing. Something to do while sucking up the surplus wealth all those third world infant mortality cases don't need. Maybe | can be a vigilante voyeur? Voice. Hunger. Power. Drunk teenagers wearing expensive shoes spit on the “I'm HIV positive” woman pan-han- dling in front of the 7-Eleven. Sun, wet earth, and cherry blossoms. Got to get me some new friends. The ones who aren't in jail for running guns, dope, and blow, are liv- ing in teepees and wool sweaters, growing organic hemp, and tending broods of feral, naked, long-haired children. Maybe | can get to know some self- obsessed sexless drones with fashionable clothes, nice hair, good skin, and perfect teeth? Voice. Paralysis. Control. An old woman talks loudly to herself on a bench near Broadway and Main, she screams profanity and racial slurs at every asian she sees. Thenewgraffitiiserasureofidentity. Chainsaw, toilet paper, strip-mine, minivan. Got to get me a new name. | can write it in every imaginable insipid and inspired labial or phallic stylistic permutation on each exclusive rung of the ascending ladder of the inclusive social hierarchy. Maybe | can find one on television? Voice. Transformation. Silence. The paint flows on fast and smooth. A PLA policy for ECIAD in the format of a Brochure are available through Student Services or at reception. Please feel free to contact PLA Coordinator, Sheila Hall. 604-844-3082 and fax: 604-844-3801. Or email: shall@eciad.bc.ca Please note: Learners may inquire and meet with the PLA Coordinator without having been admitted to a degree or diploma program at Emily Carr Institute however before PLA credit will be assessed or granted, the learner must be accepted to Emily Carr through the regular portfolio admission. Fee Structure: Initial meeting with the PLA coordinator Assessment fee (per 3 credits) no cost $175.00 $62.00 Administration Fee (per 3 successful credits) Successful candidates will pay $175.00 assessment fee plus the $62.00 administration fee for each 3-credit course grant- ed PLA credit. ECIAD will regularly monitor, evaluate, review, and revise Prior Learning Assessment poli- cies and practices to maintain and improve our flexible assessment and to ensure the quality of our education standards. photo by lan Walker model: Jonathan Wells Investigate now! You could get your degree or diploma in less time with less mone Students interested in getting credit for non-formal learning should investigate Prior Learning Assessment. Last year many students received PLA credits. Below you will find a description of PLA, our PLA policy and how to proceed. What is Prior Learning Assessment? PLA is a world-wide educational initiative that provides leamers with the opportu- nities to identify and gain recognition for what they already know and can do. PLA is a process of identifying, assessing and recognizing knowledge to gain credit. It enables individuals to access learning more efficiently and to earn meaningful cre~ dentials in less time and at less expense. Itis an opportunity for ECIAD to accredit learning in diversified ways. PLA is a concept that states that credible, certifiable, post secondary level learning takes place throughout a lifetime. We leam in many ways including working, non- credit training, research, reading and community involvement. Until recently peo- ple returning to institutions and universities could not get credit for non-formal learning. The PLA system recognizes and respects what a person knows and can do regardless of where the knowledge is acquired. @* by Andre Arnold Concrete, cigarette butt, bird shit, and used gum. Got to get me a job producing nothing. Something to do while sucking up the surplus wealth all those third world infant mortality cases don't need. Maybe I can be a vigilante voyeur? Voice. Hunger. Power. Drunk teenagers wearing expensive shoes spit on the “I'm HIV positive” woman pan-han- diing in front of the 7-Eleven. Sun, wet earth, and cherry blossoms. Got to get me some new friends. The ones who aren't in jail for running guns, dope, and blow, are liv- ing in teepees and wool sweaters, growing organic hemp, and tending broods of feral, naked, long-haired children. Maybe I can get to know some self- obsessed sexless drones with fashionable clothes, nice hair, good skin, and perfect teeth? Voice. Paralysis. Control. An old woman talks loudly to herself on a bench near Broadway and Main, she sereams profanity and racial slurs at every asian she sees. Thenewgraffitiserasureofidentity Chainsaw, toilet paper, strip-mine, minivan Got to get me a new name. | can write it in every imaginable insipid and inspired labial or phallic stylistic permutation on each exclusive rung of the ascending ladder of the inclusive social hierarchy. Maybe I can find one on television? Voice. Transformation. Silence. The paint flows on fast and smooth APLA policy for ECIAD in the format of a Brochure are available through Student Services or at reception. Please feel free to contact PLA Coordinator, Sheila Hall 604-844-3082 and fax: 604-844-3801. Or email: shall@eciad.be.ca Please note: Learners may inquire and meet with the PLA Coordinator without having been admitted to a degree or diploma program at Emily Carr Institute however before PLA credit will be assessed or granted, the learner must be accepted to Emily Carr through the regular portfolio. admission. Fee Structure: Initial meeting with the PLA coordinator Assessment fee (per 3 credits) no cost $175.00 Administration Fee (per 3 successful credits) $62.00 Successful candidates will pay $175.00 assessment fee plus the $62.00 administration fee for each 3-credit course grant- ed PLA credit. ECIAD will regularly monitor, evaluate, review, and revise Prior Leaning Assessment pol cies and practices to maintain and improve our flexible assessment and to ensure the quality ‘of our education standards.