Concurrent Admissions Program

What is ConAP?

ConAP is a joint program of the Army, Army Reserve, Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges and participating colleges to admit new soldiers to a college or university at the time of enlistment.

Army and Army Reserve recruiters refer new soldiers to participating ConAP colleges and universities in their home areas.

Eligible soldiers are admitted, either on a full or provisional basis, with enrollment deferred until completion of active military service.

"Provisional admission" means that the student may be required to take certain developmental courses or undergo other academic preparation and may be limited in the number of courses taken.

The student is subject to the college's degree requirements as published in the catalog at the time of enrollment in classes.

The admission agreement is in effect for two years following completion of active military service or, for Army Reserve soldiers, to years after completion of initial active duty for training.

New soldiers have high potential to be successful college students.
Almost all are high-school diploma graduates and over 94 percent enroll in the Montgomery GI Bill for education benefits ranging from $6,120 to $65,000.

Most active-duty soldiers leave the Army and return home after serving one elistment.
Army Reserve soldiers are ready to begin college after completin of four to six months of active-duty training.

The key to enrolling large numbers of Army veterans, Army Reserve soldiers in college is to admit and bond them to a college at the time of enlistment.
ConAP becomes the first step by creating the all-important plan to go to college.

Benefits of ConAP

- For Soldiers: Admission to college for those qualified, a specific plan to go to college and use education benefits, and credits for educational experiences in the Army granted by a "home college."

- For High Schools: Enables more graduates to go to college and have access to Montgomery GI Bill education benefits.

- For Colleges and Universities: Increases enrollment of mature, motivated students with job experience and funds for education, i.e., Montgomery GI Bill.

- For the Army and Army RESERVE: Attracts college-capable soldiers to maintain the high standards and professionalism of the Army.

- For the Nation: More veterans and reservists using their Montgomery GI Bill education benefits means better educated and more productive citizens.

How Colleges and Universities Participate

- Become members of Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges (SOC) and complete an institutional agreement to participate in ConAP.
There is no fee.

- Assign an institutional contact to help soldiers during the application process.

- Complete a ConAP college admission agreement for soldiers who meet admission criteria.
Provide a copy to each soldier and the recruiting battalion or Army Reserve recruiter that referred the soldier.

- Maintain contact with active-duty soldiers during their military service.

- At enrollment, review each student's goals and academic preparation, both traditional and non-traditional, award credit as appropriate, and provide a student degree plan.

- Notify SOC when ConAP students enter college.

Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges

SOC is a civilian-military partnership that includes 14 national high education associations, more than 1,000 colleges and universities, the Department of Defense, the Military Services, including the Army Reserve, and the Coast Guard.

SOC member institutions agree to be guided by four criteria in recognizing the special conditions confronting military students.

SOC institutions:

1) Design transfer practices for servicemembers to minimize credit loss and avoid course duplication.

2) Limit residency requirement for active-duty servicemembers to no more than 25 percent of the undergraduate degree program, which may include upper-division courses, and do not require final-year or final-semester residency.
Institutions joining SOC primarily to participate in ConAP are exempted from this criterion.
Reason: ConAP students entering college after military service are no longer on active duty.

3) Award appropriate credit for specialized military training and consider credit for occupational experience.

4) Award appropriate credit for learning in extra-institutional and nonacademic settings.

For veterans and reservists who are beginning or continuing study, SOC institutions evaluate military course, experience, and college courses already taken, and award credit as appropriate to the degree program.
Of particular importance to veterans and reservists are counseling and degree planning.

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Last updated 01 August 1997