Matt Bergman, PhD, Assistant Professor in the College of Education and Human Development that is recognized as a national expert on Prior Learning Assessment. Dr. Bergman’s research is focused on adult learner persistence, prior learning assessment, leadership, and degree completion programs. His work has appeared in refereed journals such as the Journal of Continuing Higher Education, Adult Learning, Human Resource Development Review, International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development, and his work highlighted in international media outlets including Forbes, The Washington Post, and TIME. In 2015, Bergman and his colleagues won the E. F. Holton III Outstanding Article of the Year. His program was the recipient of the 2016 ACHE South’s Distinguished Program Award and the 2013 AAACE Malcolm Knowles Award for Adult Education Program of the Year. The program was also acknowledged as a 2014 National Program of Distinction in the American Public and Land Grant Universities’ MVP Awards for Campus Based Strategies for Student Success and the 2013 Innovation for Educational Attainment from the Gheens Foundation and 55,000 Degrees based upon local implementation of his research. Dr. Bergman was awarded the Metroversity Outstanding Faculty for Adult Learners in 2015 and has been a Faculty Favorite at UofL from 2012-2017. He is a teacher, administrator, and ambassador of adult degree attainment both locally, and nationally.