UNC System’s roadmap of college credit for military experience

North Carolina has the fourth largest military presence in the country, with approximately 21,000 of those individuals enrolled at UNC institutions. A new credit transfer tool for military service members enrolling in the University of North Carolina System is helping a target group of adult learners translate their technical on-the-job experience into college-level academic credit. Launched in late February, the UNC System Military Equivalency System builds on a pre-existing guide from the American Council on Education (ACE) to provide a user-friendly database that spans all 16 of the system’s institutions...