Prior learning refers to the knowledge, competencies, and skills acquired through formal and informal education outside a traditional academic environment or at the initiative of the individual learner. For example, if a current or potential student participated in an employee training program, military service, or took standardized exams such as Advanced Placement (AP), DANTES Standardized Subject Tests (DSST), or College Level Examination Program (CLEP), they may have earned college-level credit. The Utah System of Higher Education's (USHE) newly formed Prior Learning Committee will be setting quality standards and creating a best practices guidebook for awarding credit for prior learning. This committee was formed partially in response to recent Utah Legislation (HB45, 2019) and to forthcoming Regent Policy R472, both of which require transparency and consistency in the ways USHE institutions award credit for prior learning. USHE institutions already allow students to earn college credit through prior learning assessments; however, not all students know the different options available to challenge courses they may already have mastered through their own experience or studies. The goal going forward will be to ensure that students know their options, that faculty and key staff (like advisors) are trained on the types of prior learning assessments available for students at their institution, and that institutions consider ways they might expand the kinds of assessments available to students.