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CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -- The University of Carolina-Wilmington Onslow extension site brought education opportunities front and center for troops, their families and potential area students at the UNCW Onslow extension site’s first ever open house at the John A. Lejeune Education Center aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and later at the Coastal Carolina Community College, Oct. 27.
Ashley Adamovage, program manager with UNCW, said the open house is where local residents as well as service members and their families can come learn about all the programs that UNCW offers in Onslow County.
“They can also sit down and speak with an adviser, apply, and even get accepted in the very same day, as long as they have their official transcripts, their application and their essay,” said Adamovage.
Adamovage added that attendees learned about courses and degrees in criminology, business administration, social work, liberal studies and elementary education.
They were also given information on scholarships, tuition assistance, financial aid and veterans services.
“Students can receive their degree without leaving Onslow County for less than 12 thousand dollars,” said Adamovage. “It’s a pretty good opportunity. We’re extremely military friendly, we accept the GI bill for all programs within the GI bill, TA, financial aid, grants, scholarships and we also have a few loan options too.”
Lindsay Davis, military enrollment services coordinator, said the best thing about the open house was that virtually all the resources one would need were made available in one location.
“We have different academic advisers, but usually their offices are over at Coastal Carolina Community College,” said Davis. “We brought them on base today because it provides a better time frame for Marines, most of who came during chow.”
Davis added all the feedback has been positive about the open house and troops took advantage of having a “one stop shop” for their educational desires.
“Not only did we have the academic adviser here today, but we had admissions personnel here as well,” “they can get admission decisions, they can talk about their application and they can take advantage of having the academic adviser here. Everything is all at one location. They didn’t even have to make any phone calls (before they came).”
Davis said a lot of the service members already come from other educational institutions, with several sets of transcripts.
“It’s so much paperwork, but actually being able to sit down with someone and talk about their whole application and everything they’ve done and things such as grade point requirements, it’s nice to be able to do it. It’s difficult over the phone sometimes. That one-on-one personal attention, getting that information and talking to eh academic adviser about the program – in one place – is fabulous. It’s been very successful.”
For more information about the application process and the UNCW Onslow extension site, call 910-455-2310 or visit the website uncw.edu/extension.
| Date Taken: | 10.27.2011 |
| Date Posted: | 11.02.2011 15:42 |
| Story ID: | 79448 |
| Location: | CAMP LEJEUNE, NORTH CAROLINA, US |
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