{"id":10825,"date":"2015-06-26T07:55:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T12:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=10825"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:07:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:07:49","slug":"warriorscholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=10825","title":{"rendered":"Warrior Scholars at Carolina: Preparing for the next chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Warrior Scholars at Carolina: Preparing for the next chapter\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F9QLRm5lOm4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Duffle bags in hand, 14 active-duty and recently separated military members arrived last weekend on Carolina\u2019s campus for a boot camp designed to prepare them for their next mission: college.<\/p>\n<p>The Warrior-Scholar Project chose the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as one of 11 universities nationwide to teach and train service members this year about the transition from military life to college life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the fourth summer we\u2019ve done this,\u201d said Sid Ellington, the chief of staff for the <a href=\"http:\/\/warrior-scholar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Warrior-Scholar Project<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ve grown from one campus at Yale University to 11 campuses and put 200 through this boot camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scholars have been engaged in military service for a period of years, so they\u2019ve had this dead time between the last time they were in a school environment, high school, and a full time, four-year academic institution. We\u2019re sending them through this boot camp to close that gap in the skills they need and teach them how college works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This marks Carolina\u2019s first year working with the non-profit organization, and the scholars came from within North Carolina and beyond the state.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Due\u00f1as took the red-eye from San Diego to be a part of this program. He enrolled in the Warrior-Scholar Project based on a friend\u2019s high praise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe attended the inaugural program and would not shut up about it,\u201d said Due\u00f1as. \u201cThis is something I was definitely looking forward to: re-learning how to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The scholars sleep in dorm rooms at Horton Hall, eat at Chase Dining Hall and study in UNC-Chapel Hill\u2019s classrooms and libraries. Immersed in a whirlwind week of college campus life they also learn from seven Carolina professors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time I work with veteran students I get so much out of it,\u201d said Hilary Edwards Lithgow, professor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/englishcomplit.unc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of English and Comparative Literature<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">College of Arts and Sciences<\/a>. \u201cThey tend to be, in my experience, really motivated and prepared to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mike Keyes, a senior airman serving at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, North Carolina, called the professors \u201camazing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of what we\u2019ve experienced with the professors, they seem so passionate with what they do and that extends to us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Citing Carolina\u2019s commitment to world-class academics and locale, project organizers said the partnership with UNC was a \u201ctrifecta\u201d of location, school-quality and commitment to the military.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina\u2019s participation in the Warrior-Scholar Project is further demonstration of the University\u2019s continuing commitment to the men and women of the armed forces and the nation\u2019s veterans. Education and support programs range from the new <a href=\"http:\/\/unccore.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNC Core <\/a>program, an online distance education program that helps active duty military complete their general education courses so they can apply for follow-up undergraduate degree programs, to the university\u2019s highly acclaimed executive development leadership courses offered through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenan-Flagler Business School<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Story and video by Carly Swain, Office of Communications and Public Affairs<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duffle bags in hand, 14 active-duty and recently separated military members arrived last weekend on Carolina\u2019s campus for a boot camp designed to prepare them for their next mission: 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