“I would have liked for them to at least acknowledge it,” he said. “It might have been a military education, but it was still a lot of work and a lot of training.”
He now attends Columbia (Mo.) College, a liberal arts school with 18 satellite campuses on military bases including Guantanamo Bay. The school accepts military training for credit, and some occupational training.
And some colleges are even promoting their credits for military work as a way to recruit veterans.
At Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C., that led to more than 300 veterans enrolled in the fall semester, said Pat Brown, the school's educational outreach dean. That's more than six times the number enrolled just a few years ago.
The school has established two degree programs geared specifically for service members: an emergency medical care degree for Special Forces medics and an emergency and disaster management degree for civil affairs personnel. Both accept military training and transfer military training for credit for other degrees.
“People need to recognize that the quality of education going on in the military is at a very high level,” Brown said.
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