Quote:Thank you for your note. Welcome back! The PLA-100 and PLA-200 courses will benefit you in several ways. You will reflect on your accomplishments and pull them all together in one file or one location for your review. You will learn how to analyze these accomplishments and determine what credit might be earned as a result. You will be able to develop portfolios for potential credit review, as well as developing a professional portfolio for perhaps future career opportunities. Finally, the 3 credits will unquestionably apply to your BA, as General Education elective credits.

That being said, because you have previously completed portfolios you would not be required to take the two PLA courses. You would be able to continue doing PLAs the same way you did them previously, which we now refer to as “single course, 12-week PLAs.” In these courses, you work with a mentor submitting several drafts of a portfolio, each one reviewed before you submit the final portfolio for review and determination of credit. If you utilize that process, your cost is $213 per credit.

However, if you opt to take the PLA-100 and PLA-200 courses, you can then submit final portfolios for final review of credit, and the cost is dramatically less - $350 for the first 12 credits you submit.

This is your choice. This is not offered to all students but given you’ve already been successful with the PLA process we can offer this to you. Please let me know if you have additional questions.

• TESU students
  
• who have had TESU evaluate their portfolios (not just had TESU accept credit for portfolios evaluated elsewhere)
  
• who have not taken TESU's PLA-100/200 and who have taken equivalent courses elsewhere such as Kaplan (or had portfolios evaluated elsewhere)
  
• and who paid the $379/12 credit rate.
  

tesu-acct-student Wrote:It wasn't just an assertion: I copied and pasted the email I got from TESU in September 2013 about the two different rates for PLA credits. Here it is again.



So, at least at some point in time, there were two rates. Having said that, it's entirely possible that the higher rate no longer exists--but I don't know that for sure, and hearing it here from you all, as obviously knowledgeable as you all are, is not enough evidence to persuade me YET. I would truly love to hear from:

• TESU students
  
• who have had TESU evaluate their portfolios (not just had TESU accept credit for portfolios evaluated elsewhere)
  
• who have not taken TESU's PLA-100/200 and who have taken equivalent courses elsewhere such as Kaplan (or had portfolios evaluated elsewhere)
  
• and who paid the $379/12 credit rate.
  

sanantone Wrote:If you want to earn more than 3 credits by portfolio assessment, you have to take PLA-100 and 200, transfer in an equivalent course, or have previous experience with doing PLAs. In this case, portfolio assessments are charged at a flat rate.

tesu-acct-student Wrote:Because of what I was told in Sept. 2013, I am particularly interested in the bolded part. Who here has received credit for a portfolio at another institution, then had TESU evaluate subsequent portfolios? This would be really helpful to me, because I am now concerned that there is a standard that is not being equally applied to all students. If somebody qualified to have portfolios evaluated at TESU at the rate of $379/12 credits, based on their successful completion of a portfolio elsewhere, then I need to know this so I can reach out to TESU and find out what happened in my case and why I was told what I was told.

sanantone Wrote:I emailed the bursar asking how much I would be charged because I've already completed a PLA at Empire State College and transferred the credit to TESU.

tesu-acct-student Wrote:Just so I'm clear: this wasn't a PLA preparatory course, right?