Veteran Transition - Academic Excellence and Career Readiness

Overview

The Columbia University Center for Veteran Transition and Integration (CVTI) supports excellence and innovation in transition programming for current and former members of the armed forces.

The Veteran Transition - Academic Excellence and Career Readiness programme is offered by Columbia University - Columbia University - ColumbiaX.

As a service member in transition, you may face barriers reaching your potential in accessing higher education and beginning meaningful careers, despite the many effective programs offered to this population by the Department of Labor, Department of Defense’s Transition Assistance Program, and other programs offered by the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. 

With this in mind, the CVTI is dedicated to creating free courses that will help to break down those barriers to your successful transition. Currently we are offering three courses to meet these demands, with more courses on the way. While these courses are created for veterans and active duty service members, they are free and available for all.

Attaining Higher Education is a course designed to facilitate the successful transition of active duty service members and veterans to postsecondary education, whether at a two- or four-year college for an associate's or bachelor's degree, or even graduate school.

What you will learn

• General and detailed information about colleges and universities.

• Foundational academic and study skills for achieving academic success in college.

• Strategies for more effective reading, writing, test preparation, and time management.

• Practical tips and strategies for making a successful military-to-civilian career transition.

• A framework for how to begin thinking about and exploring new career opportunities.