Academic Advising and Support
Academic Advising and Support
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Academic advising is an interactive and iterative process that involves building a relationship with students to learn their backgrounds and their goals, facilitates a plan to achieve the desired outcomes, and connect students with key resources and supports to succeed in navigating their chosen path.
In discussing academic objectives with student veterans, including choice of major and course selection, viewing the military experience as a learning experience plays an important role along with high school and previous college transcripts.
The joint service transcript can be a key tool for understanding how military experience and training provide academic preparedness and may even, depending on the particular policies of the college or university, lead to transfer credit.
Helping the student veteran think holistically about their military experience together with their high school and college record will lead to a better framework for formulating academic goals and the best path for achieving them.
For student veterans who are using VA educational benefits, it is vital to incorporate their benefits eligibility into their academic plan in addition to making sure that the student veteran is connected with the School Certifying Official. Will maximize the chance that tuition, monthly housing allowance, and other benefits that the student veteran is entitled to receive are processed in a timely fashion.
It is also worth discussing openly about being strategic in the use of VA educational benefits in order to maximize their effectiveness in supporting the individual's goals, whether it is to ensure degree completion or to save some support for graduate or professional school.
Student veterans should be made aware of resources at the college or university to help all students excel and be encouraged to use them.
Using an asset instead of a deficit narrative can help remove any perceived stigma with using student success or academic support offices.
Writing centers, quantitative centers, and assistance with time management and study skills can help to shake off the rust for student veterans who are resuming their education after a time away from academic work.
Students with physical or mental disabilities may be entitled to academic, residential, or other accommodations and/or services while they are enrolled. Student veterans should be encouraged to speak with the disability services office to see what they might be entitled to.
Again, framing this using an asset narrative is vitally important to remove the stigma of using accommodations, which may include assistive listening devices, note taker services, alternative formats for written materials, and many other accommodations that level the playing field and provide full access to the educational program for the individual with a disability.
Note that a disability rating through the VA does not necessarily mean that the student veteran will qualify for accommodations or services and vise versa.
In discussing academic objectives with student veterans, including choice of major and course selection, viewing the military experience as a learning experience plays an important role along with high school and previous college transcripts.
The joint service transcript can be a key tool for understanding how military experience and training provide academic preparedness and may even, depending on the particular policies of the college or university, lead to transfer credit.
Helping the student veteran think holistically about their military experience together with their high school and college record will lead to a better framework for formulating academic goals and the best path for achieving them.
For student veterans who are using VA educational benefits, it is vital to incorporate their benefits eligibility into their academic plan in addition to making sure that the student veteran is connected with the School Certifying Official. Will maximize the chance that tuition, monthly housing allowance, and other benefits that the student veteran is entitled to receive are processed in a timely fashion.
It is also worth discussing openly about being strategic in the use of VA educational benefits in order to maximize their effectiveness in supporting the individual's goals, whether it is to ensure degree completion or to save some support for graduate or professional school.
Student veterans should be made aware of resources at the college or university to help all students excel and be encouraged to use them.
Using an asset instead of a deficit narrative can help remove any perceived stigma with using student success or academic support offices.
Writing centers, quantitative centers, and assistance with time management and study skills can help to shake off the rust for student veterans who are resuming their education after a time away from academic work.
Students with physical or mental disabilities may be entitled to academic, residential, or other accommodations and/or services while they are enrolled. Student veterans should be encouraged to speak with the disability services office to see what they might be entitled to.
Again, framing this using an asset narrative is vitally important to remove the stigma of using accommodations, which may include assistive listening devices, note taker services, alternative formats for written materials, and many other accommodations that level the playing field and provide full access to the educational program for the individual with a disability.
Note that a disability rating through the VA does not necessarily mean that the student veteran will qualify for accommodations or services and vise versa.