College and Career Planning

Academic Skills Training

The Academic Skills Training program enrolled nearly 19,000 users in the Online Academic Skills Course (OASC). Learners completed more than 115,000 lessons and learning modules to increase their English, math, and science skills. The program team developed new videos that helped learners earn course certificates, access free tutoring, and understand how to leverage course features and support services better.

College and Career Planning System

As a College and Career Planning System, Kuder Journey enabled 10,491 service members to complete 74,455 career assessments that supported the development of education and career goals. The career assessments helped service members define what they like to do (interests), what they are confident doing (skills), and what is important to them in the workplace (work values).

The Kuder Journey team focused on equipping VolEd counselors to leverage the platform better as they help service members. The group offered several live sessions to include: the Kuder Journey scholarship search tool, best practices to locate colleges and universities within the system, and to help students overcome the impacts of COVID-19 on their education journey. The fireside chat training format enabled VolEd professionals to speak directly to the roadblocks they face on a day-to-day basis, as well as arm them with the confidence that input from VolEd field professionals results in programmatic changes.

In collaboration with the Contingency Area Education Support Program, Kuder Journey provided training, marketing materials, and assistance to two new overseas education offices.

College Comparison

TA DECIDE is a decision support tool that helped 25,000 users research and compared more than 2,494 colleges and universities based on degree programs, costs, military and veterans student outcomes, and more. The compilation of federal data helped service members determine the college or university that best fits their educational needs. The tool is available to service members, VolEd professionals, military family members, and the general public.