Welcome to the Toolkit for Veteran Friendly Institutions. Created by the American Council on Education (ACE), this online resource is designed to help institutions of higher education build effective programs for veteran students and share information. It highlights a variety of best practices and includes video clips, profiles of student veterans programs across the U.S., and a searchable database of tools and resources.
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Success for Veterans Award Grants

Highlights of promising practices in serving student veterans.

Providing Career Transition Services

Learn how institutions are ensuring a successful transition to employment for student veterans.

Recognizing the Needs of Military Families

Learn how families play an important role in student veterans' lives.

Tapping Community Resources

Learn what community resources can be leveraged to expand your veterans success program.

Building Strong Peer Mentorship Programs

Learn how peer-to-peer mentoring can increase student veterans' success in higher education.

Offering Veterans Orientation Programs and Courses

Learn what institutions are offering to veterans for orientations and coursework.

Strengthening Military Transcript Review Processes

Learn how military transcript reviews can affect a student veteran's choices and success.

Helping Veterans Understand their Benefits

Learn how institutions are working with student veterans to ensure they success in education.

The Importance of an Effective Certifying Official

Learn why school certifying officials play an important role in a veterans' success program and how to support their role.

Identifying Veterans in the Application Process

Learn how to identify your student veteran population and why tracking this
information is important.

Providing Veteran-Specific Counseling Programs

Learn how some institutions are providing counseling to their student veteran population.

Learning Outside the Classroom

Learn how peer mentoring, tutoring programs and other networking opportunities are helping student veterans.

Providing Dedicated Space for Veterans

Providing dedicated space for student veterans is highly recommended
for any veterans program.

Offering Training on Military Culture to Staff and Faculty

Tips on Funding Strategies

Learn how institutions are successfully fund raising for their veterans programs.

Key Outreach Strategies

Learn what outreach and recruiting strategies are working for veterans programs in higher education.

Establishing a Central Point of Contact

Learn how institutions are providing central points of contact for student veterans.

How Tracking Systems can Help Measure Success

Learn why tracking student veterans is important to a successful program.

The Importance of Top Down Support and Advisory Boards

Learn about garnering leadership support and forming a task force to support student veterans in higher education.

Leveraging the VA Work Study Program

Schools share promising practices and discuss the benefits of using the VA Work Study program.

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