Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) was among the institutions named on the 2011 list of Military Friendly Schools as released by G .I. Jobs Magazine. This is the second year in a row that Tri-C has earned this honor. The list honors the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools who are doing the most to embrace America’s veterans as students. Schools on the list range from state universities and private colleges to community colleges and trade schools. The common bond is their shared priority of recruiting students with military experience.
“All at Tri-C who are involved with the College’s Veterans Initiative are thrilled to have again been selected for this honor and recognition,” said Rick DeChant, Executive Director of Veteran Services & Programs at Tri-C. “This designation further re-enforces Tri-C’s long standing commitment to serving veterans – a commitment which goes back to the founding of the College in the mid-60′s through today.”
DeChant noted that during this period Tri-C has been home to some 22,000 veterans whose service ranges from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Schools on the Military Friendly Schools list offer additional benefits to student veterans such as on-campus veterans programs, credit for service, military spouse programs and more. The list was compiled through exhaustive research starting last May. G.I. Jobs polled more than 7,000 schools nationwide. Methodology, criteria and weighting for the list were developed with the assistance of an Academic Advisory Committee (AAC) consisting of educators and administrators from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Toledo, Duquesne University, Coastline Community College and Lincoln Technical Institute.
Criteria for making the Military Friendly Schools list included efforts to recruit and retain military and veteran students, results in recruiting military and veteran students and academic accreditations.
