IPD Partners are Military Friendly

GI Jobs Magazine recently conducted a survey of all academic institutions across the United States to determine how they interacted with military service members. Questions ranged from whether the institutions discounted tuition for military or offered military scholarships; discounted tuition for military spouses; gave credit for military training; participated in the Yellow Ribbon program; accepted transcript credit from the Army/American Counsel on Education Registry Transcript Services (AARTS), Self-Monitoring, Analysis Reporting and Technology (SMART), and Community College of the Air Force (CCAF) military transcript resources; provided support groups for veterans returning to campuses; offered online instruction; were members of Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges consortium (over 1,900 schools nationally); the number of military personnel enrolled at that institution; and a host of other topics. GI Jobs wanted to get a picture of how veterans and their families were being treated by institutions across the country.

Answering this survey required a collaborative effort between the IPD staff and the partner institutions. While much of the relationship development with the military falls to the IPD staff, institutional information came from the partner institutions, and in the end, we worked hand-in-hand to provide the systematic overview that GI Jobs was looking for! The bottom line is that all of IPD's partner institutions were designated as "military friendly!"

GI Jobs is a monthly publication, and in the fall, it will have an issue dedicated to those institutions selected as military friendly. This issue will become a major reference item for military service members who are searching for an institution to attend, and it will be distributed to all military education centers in the Department of Defense worldwide. In addition to the military education centers, this issue will be distributed to all transition offices globally, as the Department of Defense is very concerned about the number of veterans who are unemployed. Education and employability are in-separately linked to each other.

Hats off to everyone for their efforts and support of very important military market! HOOAH!

Colonel James Nichols (retired)
Director, Military Programs
Institute for Professional Development

Pictured are Dr. James Loftus, President of Cardinal Stritch University, and Colonel James Nichols, IPD's Director of Military Programs. Cardinal Stritch is IPD's most long-standing partner institution, since 1982, and is a "military friendly" school with campuses located throughout Wisconsin and Minnesota.

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