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This program also allowed militaryveterans to earn a quality education and credit for service. The University of Richmond, an institutional member here at CHEL, has a Student Government Association at its School of Professional Studies designed to do just that: involve non-traditional students in campus activities.
Or even if you think about veterans with all of the skills that they’ve mastered in their military occupation, specialization, sometimes are difficult to translate into a civilian competency or description. So we’ve got to have more virtual service delivery. And are you college, career or military?
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Fortunately for journalists, government agencies and academic researchers have gathered data on an array of topics and made it available online for free. Department of Veterans Affairs and National Science Foundation. You can search for education data by location and government agency as well as by topic category and dataset format.
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