A grant from Boeing will help support a veterans transition program at Coastal Carolina University.
The grant from Boeing South Carolina is worth $80,000 and will fund the new “Boeing Skills to Lead – Veterans Career Transition Program” at the university, according to a press release from CCU. The program will be in the E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration.
“We are very thankful for this grant and excited to partner with Boeing to assist the many veterans and military families in our region,” Barbara Ritter, Dean of the Wall College of Business and Vice President for Executive Development and Career Services, said in the release. ““This grant allows us to connect the experts in the Wall College of Business with veterans in our area to make a significant impact on their working lives.”
The program will consist of a two-hour orientation and five development modules, the release adds. It will end with two hours of one-on-one coaching.
“Boeing knows that veterans make us better,” Ashley Holbrook, Director of National Strategy and Engagement at Boeing, said. “That’s why we partner with innovative programs such as Skills to Lead with Coastal Carolina University to help veterans and their families transition from military life to the civilian workforce.”
“The Boeing Skills to Lead – Veterans Career Transition Program will help veterans achieve better job placement and career development by helping them understand how to transfer their military skills to the civilian workforce,” said Gregory Nance, Director of Veterans Services at CCU.
Recruitment for the program will be through CCU’s Office of Veterans Services.
Those who complete the program “will be awarded a TEAL Belt in Leadership from the CCU’s Executive Development Program” and “will have access to additional services through the University’s Career Services Center.”
For more information, contact CCU’s Office of Veterans Services, the E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration, or CCU’s Executive Development and Career Services Department.
