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We'll see if trickle-down academics begins to increase from the top. I've known a few different senior NCOs who are working on Doctorate and Master degrees who serve as motivation for their subordinates to continue developing.
Aside from basic military schooling differences, in the future, I can see this leading to a need to further differentiate between the qualifications for Officer and Enlisted. Just as credential creep impacts civilian employment qualifications, I imagine it will the military as well.
Aside from basic military schooling differences, in the future, I can see this leading to a need to further differentiate between the qualifications for Officer and Enlisted. Just as credential creep impacts civilian employment qualifications, I imagine it will the military as well.
Bachelor of Arts Now Attainable at USASMA
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https://news.usni.org/2018/05/31/navy-speeds-pace-sea-going-apprenticeship-program
This struck me as interesting, I was also gonna send it in generally....
This struck me as interesting, I was also gonna send it in generally....
Navy Speeds Up Pace of Sea-Going Apprenticeship Program in Effort to Retain Sailors - USNI News
The Navy is tweaking its long-running Professional Apprenticeship Career Track(PACT) program to retain sea-going sailors.
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I was in the army National Guard when they started dictating college and different levels of degrees to stay in and get promotions. The justification was, the Army was getting more technical and required a higher degree of education to perform the military mission. Both the Army and Air Force started granting AA, AS, AAPS degrees shorty after that when the recommendations for college credits were not being honored by Colleges and Universities and the Airmen and Soldiers were not meeting the new requirements.
And, yet, there were no enlisted military college for them. The military academies and post graduate levels of education were for Officers as were many of the College and University completion and graduate programs outside the military were. So, for decades, there was a separation between the degrees, opportunities, and acceptance of education level between officers and enlisted. Now, there HAVE been some changes.
But, the question is, why pay an officer salary for a degree when you can keep the enlisted having to have higher and higher degrees and pay them less in pay, benefits, and opportunities for getting that education into your service? The officer corps has built in education opportunities and programs paid for by the military. The enlisted does not. They are expected to get those degrees on their own, use education funds, do it part time while working full time, or use their VA education benefits.
Again, I will say, after twenty years, things are changing for the better for the enlisted to gain their required degree to stay in and get promoted. But, as with most things that cost money and you have a different group controlling the funding and management, they have not changed enough.
If you do not want senior NCO's to have the same or higher degrees then the officers, then start promoting to officer from the troops. Or, make more CWO's! But, that would require an act of Congress!
This should be a Masters degree. After all, Senior NCO's required to have a degree already to make it to this rank. Right?
And, yet, there were no enlisted military college for them. The military academies and post graduate levels of education were for Officers as were many of the College and University completion and graduate programs outside the military were. So, for decades, there was a separation between the degrees, opportunities, and acceptance of education level between officers and enlisted. Now, there HAVE been some changes.
But, the question is, why pay an officer salary for a degree when you can keep the enlisted having to have higher and higher degrees and pay them less in pay, benefits, and opportunities for getting that education into your service? The officer corps has built in education opportunities and programs paid for by the military. The enlisted does not. They are expected to get those degrees on their own, use education funds, do it part time while working full time, or use their VA education benefits.
Again, I will say, after twenty years, things are changing for the better for the enlisted to gain their required degree to stay in and get promoted. But, as with most things that cost money and you have a different group controlling the funding and management, they have not changed enough.
If you do not want senior NCO's to have the same or higher degrees then the officers, then start promoting to officer from the troops. Or, make more CWO's! But, that would require an act of Congress!
This should be a Masters degree. After all, Senior NCO's required to have a degree already to make it to this rank. Right?
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Capt Daniel Goodman
I follow, HIS I knew of, certainly, NIU less so, I've been trying to volunteer at a Reserve center up the street from us, or a state school right near there where is been an adjunct once, as a volunteer instructor, the Reserve center has USAR, ARNG, USNR, and USMCR, I've asked Army Volunteer Corps (AVC) at Ft Sam Houston, I've wanted to volunteer to teach STEM with CAP, JAN Sea Cadets, or any of the JROTCs, if you might ever be able to help at all, my wife and I would obv be most indebted, I didn't know if you'd known anyone in that world, I've got a dbl bach, triple masters, and clinical.allied health doctorate, with dual inactive licenses as a Prof Engr (PE) and allied health dcotr, we shut the allied health license deck yrs ago due to my total perm.disability, it's just totally dumb to have me sitting going to waste, when the Reserve center with your guys, the USNR and USMCR guys are right up the block, we got RAPIDS MWR IDs after my disability was approved, I've tried to volunteer through Navy League, I'd also wanted to try going CAP or USCG Aux as well, the disability keeps bollixing the whole thing up, anything you might be able to do would most definitely be most widely aooreciated, if you might ever care to chat further, I'd certainly be most obliged, I did find the NIU bach program of interest, as well as NIU generally, I'd be most eager to chat further whenever convenient, many thanks....
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And I knew of that degree forum website you'd mentioned, as well, I'd seen it befoee....
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USCG Auxiliary Seattle: Division 2 Homeland Security Masters Degree
Auxiliarists are eligible to apply for the Homeland Security Masters Degree (MA) Program. This is an 18 month distance learning program, but you will need to spend two weeks each quarter in residence. The program is fully funded, so there is no cost to the Auxiliarist.
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When I transferred to the Fleet Reserve I had earned through various means 156 semester hours. But no degree!
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