By Kelli Hickey, Director, Impact & Engagement, AACRAO
If you work in a registrar or enrollment office, you’ve probably encountered this: a veteran or active-duty learner walks in with military transcripts, training certificates, or a Joint Services Transcript. Someone in the room may be a little unsure how it all translates into credit at your institution. The rules and frameworks exist. But have you heard lived experiences from military learners who have actually gone through that process?
That’s exactly what the upcoming AACRAO webinar, From Service to Scholarship: Learner Panel on Military Credit for Prior Learning, September 22, 2026 at 2 p.m. ET, is ready to address.
This webinar welcomes a moderated panel of military learners to discuss their experiences converting military training and experience into academic credit. For those on the registrar and admissions side, this discussion provides a rare and useful vantage point. You’re the practitioners in control of the systems and processes to:
- Build the credit evaluation process.
- Interpret the transcripts.
- Enforce the policies for awarding prior learning credit.
But how often do you hear directly from the learners who navigated that pipeline, such as what worked, what stalled them out, and what they wish someone had told them on day one?
Discussions like this give you the chance to check processes against learners’ actual experience moving through them. If your offices and teams work with credit evaluation, prior learning assessment, or veteran student services in any way, this is a webinar worth putting on the calendar and maybe bringing along a colleague or two to hear firsthand.
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