Current Position and Past Experience
Melanie Booth is currently Executive Director of HLC Credential Lab. She is also Principal & Founder of Nectary Solutions. Previously, she served as Vice President, Educational Programs & Engagement at NC-SARA. Prior, she served as Executive Director of The Quality Assurance Commons for Higher & Postsecondary Education, a Lumina Foundation funded initiative in partnership with NCHEMS, to create a new model of quality assurance for post-secondary and higher education that serves the needs of learners, employers, and the larger society for the 21st century. From 2005-2013, she was Dean of Learning and Assessment and Director of the Center for Experiential Learning and Assessment at Marylhurst University in Portland, OR. Ms. Booth is a recognized leader on non-traditional adult learners and Prior Learning Assessment/Credit for Prior Learning in higher education. She has consulted with institutions nationally and internationally about the assessment of learning from traditional and non-traditional sources, and is one of the original co-founders of the international Heutagogy Community of Practice.

Education, Honors and Achievements
Melanie Booth holds an Ed.D in Educational Leadership and Change – Higher Education from Fielding Graduate University and an MA in Rhetoric and Writing from San Diego State University. She earned her BA in English from Humboldt State University and is a graduate of WASC Senior College and University Common (WSCUC)’s Assessment Leadership Academy.

Connect
You can find Melanie Booth on LinkedIn and on Twitter @boothmelanie and @QACommons.