Reynolds Community College Veterans Resource Center
The Reynolds Veterans Resource Center was lately recognized past times the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) every bit business office of the Commonwealth’s VERITAS programme (Veteran Education Resource Initiative for Transition, Advising together with Success). Reynolds is i of vii community colleges inwards Virginia to solid a Veterans Resource Center.
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(L to R: Reynolds Veterans Coordinator Herman West, VERITAS Liaison Chequana Boisseau, Reynolds President doc Gary Rhodes) |
“These centers are a fundamental hub for all veteran activities on campus. They are a repose house for students to study; together with they enable veterans to connect amongst each other, helping them renew the bonds of armed services service,” says VCCS Chancellor Glenn DuBois.
Other community colleges included inwards the VERITAS programme are Germanna, John Tyler, Northern Virginia, Thomas Nelson, Tidewater together with Virginia Western.
Credits2Careers – New VCCS Online Portal for Veterans together with Military Students
Thanks to a novel portal created past times the VCCS, veterans together with armed services students volition at nowadays accept an easier fourth dimension earning credit for prior learning. Credits2Careers volition allow veterans together with service members to upload their Joint Services Transcript to meet directly how their sense tin dismiss interpret into academic credits at to a greater extent than than 1,700 community college programs. The portal also provides real-time work information together with enables users to explore civilian careers related to their expanse of expertise or interest. Credits2Careers tin dismiss endure accessed at www.credits2careers.org.
“Today’s annunciation agency our community colleges are the exclusively college organisation inwards the field amongst this comprehensive, patent-pending tool,” said Virginia Secretary of Veterans together with Defense Affairs Carlos Hopkins. “The Credits2Careers online tool volition arrive easier than always earlier for our men together with women inwards uniform to discovery a career path to transition from their service to civilian life. This portal volition salve individuals time, money, together with hassle every bit they await for an accelerated way into the civilian workforce.”
Virginia’s Community Colleges served 36,868 veterans together with military-related students terminal year. This tool positions the colleges to attract together with aid fifty-fifty to a greater extent than of these students.
To discovery out to a greater extent than close the Reynolds Veterans Resource Center, catch www.reynolds.edu or telephone outcry upward the middle at 523-5656.
