TRANSITION SUCCESS
CONGRATS - You're an Aggie! Now What?! Successful transition is a key component for achieving not only academic success, but long term financial, personal, and vocational success. Our programs offer the opportunity for Aggie Veterans to develop and refine the skills necessary to successfully transition to and through Texas A&M University and beyond.
Transitioning is a process; it doesn't happen overnight. The VRSC developed the Aggie Veteran Transition Process for Aggie Veterans to develop and refine the skills necessary to successfully transition to and through Texas A&M University and beyond. Each step of our process and the coinciding programs have been intentionally and carefully designed based on the feedback from former and current Aggie Veterans on what was most crucial to their success.
The Aggie Veteran Transition Toolkit is a reference for transitioning military students. This webpage contains all the steps involved in the transition process, the necessary links to complete certain requirements, downloadable checklists, and extended transitioning programs.
Each New Student Conference (NSC) includes a mandatory Military Student Session that reinforces what is presented in the online orientation material, and provides a tour of the center, introductions to staff and valuable resources and information to prepare students for attending the Vet Camp extended orientation.
Incoming Aggie Veterans will complete a Military Student module during their required online orientation. This module provides critical information, links and downloads, and sets expectations for the next step of the process, the Military Student Session of New Student Conference.
Vet Camp occurs just prior to each long semester (Spring/Fall) and is mandatory for all new/incoming military students. This extended orientation experience consists of hands-on workshops, personalized connections, socialized tour, and much more that help smoothen the transition through Texas A&M.
Veterans Evaluation of Talen + Matching Assistance Program (VET+MAP) takes military students through the P2i journey of discerning their life's purpose and aligning their goals. This life-impacting program begins with the Purpose Alignment Rating (PAR) and the Impact U Workshop at Vet Camp.
First Gen Vets is a learning community for military students who are also first generation college students. This class-based community is a full-year program that provides Aggie Veterans with the resources and opportunities to build and develop the necessary skills to be successful college students.
We recognize that the transition from military to civilian life can be overwhelming enough. Relocating to a new community and integrating into life and academics at a large, Tier-1 research institution can double that challenge. We also recognize that transition doesn't stop when once the first semester begins; it continues throughout the academic journey, through graduation and into a career. That's why each and every program is crafted to directly or indirectly drive Aggie Veteran lifetime success. Whether you are coming straight from a life of service or transferring in from a smaller community college, we have the programs to help facilitate a lifetime of successful transitions as an Aggie Veteran.