WELCOME TO SAN DIEGO CITY COLLEGE GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY EDUCATION DEPARTMENTsdmilitaryed.orgWe are a fully qualified minority institution under section 1046 (3) of the higher education act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1067k). The department of military education at San Diego City College has been providing quality college education to military personnel both nationally and regionally since 1977. The majority of the military education staff is retired or veterans of the US Armed Forces. MissionThe mission of the San Diego City College Government and Military Education Department has as its highest priority student learning and achievement. We directly support the educational requirements of the military by articulating courses for military rating-specific lower division education credit leading to Associates Degrees or transfer to a four-year college or university. Vocational education programs are also offered that meet specific government and industry needs. Our specialties are providing planning, resources, high quality instruction, continuous project maintenance, and assessment tools to meet the needs of the customer. Vision StatementSan Diego City College will continue to build partnerships with the military and other government agencies at all levels, providing a dynamic training environment for students to be critically aware and life-long learners. City College is here to serve, engage, and prepare students to lead productive and rewarding careers. PerformanceSan Diego City College has provided quality education and training to thousands of military and civilian personnel. SDCC, staffed with hundreds of highly trained and motivated personnel, has the ability to complete any project with a desirable outcome and consistently ranks high in performance evaluations. Located on two coasts, the San Diego Community College District (SDCCD) and San Diego City College (SDCC) have provided contract instructional services for the past 30 years (1977) under more than 30 military contracts, training over 30,000 students annually in 80 different courses of instruction. Military education delivers instruction in everything from basic adult literacy and verbal skills to personal financial management and from diesel engines to highly technical and sophisticated communications and radar systems. Our instructors were first to use the Automated Electronic Classroom (AEC) system and to make curriculum changes that formed the basis for the Navy’s current Apprenticeship Technical Trainee Course. Supervisors and instructors reviewed and made significant changes to computer based courseware developed for Yeoman “A” and Personnel specialist “A” Schools. San Diego City College personnel continually review and recommend changes on all developed curriculum material. San Diego City College is also the first to be Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) 2004 conformant with certified lessons on line. SDCC is partnered with the Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-lab (ADL) at the University Wisconsin, Madison. San Diego City College has operated successful military education programs at all skill levels for over a quarter of a century. In the 2002-2003 school year, City College offered over 100 college courses on five of the six major bases in San Diego with an enrollment of nearly 3,000, resulting in tens of thousands of dollars of savings in Navy Tuition Assistance funds. The sixth base, MCAS Miramar, is serviced by Miramar College, another campus of the San Diego Community College District. City College and/or the District have provided Military Contracts instructional services for the past 28 years in more than 30 military contracts, totaling over $400 million. Nationally and Regionally AccreditedSan Diego City College is nationally and regionally accredited and is eligible to receive military tuition assistance benefits. San Diego City College is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), an institutional accrediting body recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and the U.S. Department of Education. SDCC is also accredited by the Office of Private Postsecondary Education for the training of veterans, and the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Immigration Service for international student education. SDCC courses paralleling university level work are accepted by universities, colleges, and private institutions, including the University of California and California State University.
SOC MemberSan Diego City College is a participating member of Service members Opportunity Colleges (SOC), a consortium of 1,550 colleges and universities dedicated to providing educational opportunities for service members and their families. Servicemembers Opportunity College (SOC) DegreesThe following is a list of SOC degrees provided by the San Diego Community College District through San Diego City College, and San Diego Miramar College. Courses for these degrees may be taken online or at the colleges. Any course taken at a college within the District is accepted by all colleges in the District. You can view these degrees online by going to http://www.sdccd.edu/ (The San Diego Community College District site), click on college catalogs, Miramar College for degrees 1-5, and City College for degrees 6-11. Associate Degrees in…….
For additional information please visit us at: http://www.sdcity.edu/counseling/default.asp Two More New Degrees to be offered soon:San Diego City College has developed an Associate Degree in Military Electronics Technology (MLET). The core competencies for this degree are rating specific and are provided to the student through military service schools and on the job experience. All that is required for the degree is for a student to submit their SMART transcript and complete the requirements for the General Education and Capstone courses. The additional courses for this degree are already available at the college and are listed in the new course catalog. Just look in the San Diego City College catalog for the Military Electronics Technology (MLET) courses. This degree is before the California State Board of Education for approval. Miramar College has also developed an Associate Degree course in Military Leadership that will be available through the Miramar College campus as soon as it is approved by the California State Board of Education. American Council on Education (ACE)The American Council on Education (ACE) catalogs the training service members receive during their military career and recommends college equivalency credits. San Diego City College recognizes ACE credit recommendations toward completion of associate degree programs. Students can earn even more credit for what they already know through experience testing programs such as CLEP or DSST. ScholarshipsDid you know that there are millions of dollars in scholarships available for veterans, service members and their families? That's free money available for you, your spouse, or your children to help pay for a college education. Military.com has brought all of these scholarships together and put them at your finger tips with the improved Scholarship Finder. Find yours today. Troops to CollegeCalifornia's Troops to College initiative was announced by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in March 2006 to provide educational opportunities and assistance to active duty service members and veterans by the state’s premier education segments and related agencies. Specifically targeted were increases in instructional opportunities to men and women on active duty, the National Guard and the Reserves. San Diego City College is proud to participate in this statewide program. Sixteen thousand of the 21,000 veterans and their dependents in the California Community College system are provided academic as well as career-technical training among its campuses. For more information contact from San Diego City College contact: Contact: Belinda Harris | Email (619) 388-3964 Or the link below. http://www.sdcity.edu/studentresources/veterans/default.asp For more information on the California Troops to College program click on the link below. http://www.cccco.edu/SystemOffice/Divisions/StudentServices/TroopstoCollege/tabid/660/Default.aspx Military SpousesSan Diego City College and San Diego County military installations (including the San Diego Naval Medical Center and the naval bases at Point Loma, North Island, and 32nd Street) are participating in the inaugural Military Spouse Education Program. Miramar Marine Corps Air Station may be included at a later time. Bases in San Diego County are anticipating an enrollment of approximately 2,000 spouses during the first two years of the career project. Qualified spouses can receive as much as $6,000 over two years to help them become licensed or accredited for jobs they can find anywhere in the United States. The eligible fields include teaching, health care, information technology, financial services and construction. For more information on the Military Spouses Education Program click on the link below and go to the article on the Military Spouse Career Advancement Initiative. http://californiatroops.blogspot.com/search/label/Spouses Click here to learn more about the Dependents Education Assistance Program from the VA. Click on http://www.milspouse.org/ to learn more about Military Spouses. |
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