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CHAPTER 2
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND BENEFITS
The educational services officer (ESO) is part of a
team that helps personnel achieve their educational
goals. Those goals could be to complete high school,
complete a vocational-technical certificate, or earn a
college degree. The success of the various voluntary
education programs is directly affected by the extent to
which the ESO is knowledgeable about voluntary
education opportunities.
The Navy encourages active-duty personnel to
take part in off-duty voluntary education and over the
past few years has made great strides in providing
Sailors the opportunity to further their education.
Because our country values educational achievement
and the Navy wants to retain competent personnel,
voluntary education programs have special value.
An enhanced military education program, called the
Navy College Program (NCP), was developed to
provide Sailors the education necessary to handle the
increased requirements of a high-tech Navy. Key to the
NCP is partnerships between the Navy and specific
accredited colleges/universities to enable the award of
college credit for military training and experience. The
academic world recognizes the excellent quality of
Navy training and this recognition is growing. Courses
completed in military schools were the first noncampus
courses in the country the American Council on
Education (ACE) recommended for college-level
credit, and ACE plays a major role in the NCP.
NAVY COLLEGE PROGRAM
Mission:
To enable Sailors to obtain a college degree while on
active duty
Vision:
– A single system that integrates all components of
off-duty education
– A comprehensive, recognizable program to
attract high quality recruits
– A command climate that recognizes the
contribution of off-duty education to profes-
sional development
– Increased college opportunity for every Sailor
Components:
– Individual roadmap to associate and bachelor
degree for every Sailor
– Academic credit for Navy training
– Automatic eligibility for NCP
– Partnerships with institutions of higher learning,
SOCNAV and NCP partners
– Career-long academic advice regardless of
location
– Automatic transcript (SMART) at key career
junctures
– Tuition Assistance, NCPACE, DANTES,
Academic Skills
– Navy College Offices (local)
– Navy College Center – web site http://
www.navycollege.navy.mil e-mail ncc@
smtp.cnet.navy.mil/ 1-877-253-7122.
The implementation of the Navy College Program
(NCP) began in FY00, and as a result, the Navy Campus
Education Centers were renamed the Navy College
Offices. These offices can provide any ESO further
information about the program and its specific
components.
In this chapter we will discuss the following
information:
Navy College Offices and Educational
Opportunities pursued through them
Academic credit for Navy training and work
experiences
Key Role of Navy College Offices’ Education
Specialists/Guidance Counselors
ESO workshops conducted by Navy College
Offices
The Tuition Assistance (TA) Program
The Academic Skills Program
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