Updated November 2018
This postsecondary education initiative of the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office (CCCCO) supports community colleges in providing returning veterans with academic and career training, as well as assistance with the transition to life after military service and combat deployment.
Resources: Overview, Legislation (Education Code Section 66025.7)
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The CCCCO used common core descriptors, recommendations from the American Council on Education, and input from community college admissions offices to determine course credits that can be awarded for prior military experience.
Veterans Services Regional Representatives (VCRRs) are in place across the CCCCO system. Select VCRRs make up a Veterans Services Advisory Committee that facilitates communication, identifies student needs, and encourages the exchange of innovative ideas and best practices throughout the system.
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Veterans Resource Centers are present on dozens of community college campuses, providing services to ease and enable re-entry to college and civilian life.
Protocols are established to identify veterans in community college data for use in colleges’ Student Equity Plan accountability reporting.
Initiative participants could benefit from engaging in sector-based career pathways established under Career Advancement Academies, Strong Workforce Grants, and other initiatives that develop course sequences coupled with innovative instructional practices and work-based learning. Conversely, administrators of these pathways grant programs could leverage the list identifying participants with prior military experience to encourage higher rates of veteran enrollment.
Making the participant population easily identifiable within community college data could allow for targeted services under each college’s Student Equity Plan.
Does this information need updating or adjustment? Send us your suggestions: CAcareerpathway@clasp.org