About me
Dr. Melanie Booth has 25 years of leadership in connecting education and work, primarily in postsecondary and nonprofit organizations. Over her career she has worked directly and indirectly with hundreds of colleges, universities, and organizations to affect change in the learn and work ecosystem on behalf of new majority learners. Her expertise resides in the intersections of work-based and work-placed learning; experiential and community-engaged learning; credit for and recognition of prior and non-credit learning; competency-based education; microcredentials and skills-based learning; heutagogy; distance education; quality assurance; and responsible educational innovation for a relevant and engaging 21st century learning ecosystem for ALL workers / learners. Melanie recently supported the design of the Higher Learning Commission’s innovation division, the Credential Lab. Prior to joining HLC, she held change-focused leadership positions with the National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA); The Quality Assurance Commons for Higher and Postsecondary Education; and WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC). She also leads her own learning and change agency, Nectary Solutions. Her college and university leadership roles include academic dean, director of academic and student services departments, and a faculty member at various postsecondary institutions, primarily in service to new majority learners.
