Note: Our flagship academic boot camp, previously called the humanities academic boot camp, is now called the college readiness boot camp. Learn more here. All references to humanities fellows and boot camps align with the college readiness boot camp.
College Readiness
Overview
What if you could do a practice run of college, with other enlisted service members and veterans as your classmates? Like a rehearsal before a mission, our college readiness boot camp helps you experience and prepare for all aspects of life as a student on a college campus for a week. You’ll live in a campus dorm, eat in the dining hall, be taught by university professors, and complete college-level readings and assignments, including an academic essay.
Our college readiness boot camp is designed specifically to support enlisted service members and veterans as they make decisions about their college journey. The college readiness boot camp curriculum focuses on a meaningful topic for military and veterans: American democracy. You’ll explore the concept of American democracy in a real college setting with professors and tutors from our host campuses and successful student veteran peer mentors, all while forging friendships and connections that will last a lifetime.
Course Structure
Seminars
You will participate in college-style discussions, otherwise known as seminars, led by faculty at the campus. Professors will lead you and your classmates in discussion and debate about the origins and complexities of American democracy. Each seminar will introduce you to new ideas and challenge your perspective.
Study Groups
Study groups are a way to prepare for the daily seminars by helping you make sense of the readings and practice contributing to class discussion. Study groups are led by WSP fellows—successful student veteran alumni of Warrior-Scholar Project trained to support you.
Writing Workshops & Tutoring Sessions
Writing workshops include instruction and hands-on learning and provide the opportunity to apply what you learn in study groups, seminars, and College Success sessions. Professional writing instructors help you develop your ideas into a college-level academic essay. They also provide feedback designed to help you grow as a thinker and writer.
College Success Series
Transitioning to college can bring its own unique set of challenges for enlisted veterans. Our discussion-based College Success sessions, taught by WSP fellows, are designed to address the social and academic barriers enlisted student veterans may encounter.
Sessions include:
- Mindset: Through readings, interactive discussions, and in-class activities, participants are introduced to The Warrior-Scholar Mindset, which promotes self-awareness, purpose, knowledge seeking, and resilience
- Analytical reading and note-taking: Learn to manage a college-level reading load and read and break down complex material, as well as multiple note-taking strategies and when to use them
- Attention and time management: Explore attention and time management strategies, identify opportunities to improve focus, and apply tools to manage workload and schedule
- Identity and community: Consider the veteran and student identities in a higher education setting, compare military and college culture, and examine the vital role of the community in the transition process
- Informed consumer: Learn how to compare colleges and navigate the college application process—including determining how to apply, understanding your financial need, identifying resources, and connecting college decisions to your career plans
- Hidden curriculum: Acquire the skills you need to interpret class requirements, prepare for a professor’s office hours, practice asking intentional questions, and develop a networking plan
Click here to see a sample schedule. Some content may vary depending on your campus, but the WSP experience is the same across all courses.
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We partner with top colleges and universities to provide our unique programming.
Overview
You were required to solve complex problems in the military, giving you valuable skills that you can apply in college. In our one-week STEM boot camp, you’ll explore basic math and physics concepts with campus professors and strengthen your scientific reasoning and problem-solving skills. Group research projects and campus lab tours allow you to get a feel for scientific research. You will join a cohort of other student veterans, forging friendships and connections that will last a lifetime.
Course Structure
Research Projects
Research Projects are group-based learning opportunities where you will apply mathematical and scientific concepts learned during the week. Research groups are led by researchers from the host campus. Each group explores a different topic for their research project, ending with a group presentation on the final day of the boot camp.
Science Talks, Tours, and Demos
Have you ever wondered what a research lab looks like? Or heard a professor present their research? You will see STEM in action during these one-hour sessions, led by a member of the campus community, where you will be exposed to a variety of different talks, demonstrations, and tours related to STEM topics.
Lectures
Lectures focus on one- and two-dimensional motion, Newton’s Laws, and work and energy. These sessions are designed to replicate college-level STEM lectures and are taught by professors from each campus.
Recitation Sections
Recitation sections, or “Section” as they’re informally called, review major focus points from the morning lecture. These sessions, led by WSP fellows—successful student veteran alumni of Warrior-Scholar Project trained to support you—show you how to apply the day’s lecture to your daily problem-set assignments.
Problem Sets
During problem sets, or “PSETs” as they’re informally called, you will work on daily assignments with the support of your peers and WSP fellows, or independently if you choose. The assignments are sets of problems that can be solved using concepts from STEM lectures.
College Success Series
Sessions include:
- Mindset: Through readings, interactive discussions, and in-class activities, participants are introduced to The Warrior-Scholar Mindset, which promotes self-awareness, purpose, knowledge seeking, and resilience
- Analytical reading and note-taking: Learn to manage a college-level reading load and read and break down complex material, as well as multiple note-taking strategies and when to use them
- Attention and time management: Explore attention and time management strategies, identify opportunities to improve focus, and apply tools to manage workload and schedule
- Identity, culture, and community: Consider the veteran and student identities in a higher education setting, compare military and college culture, and examine the vital role of the community in the transition process
- Informed consumer: Learn how to compare colleges and navigate the college application process—including determining how to apply, understanding your financial need, identifying resources, and connecting college decisions to your career plans
- Hidden curriculum: Acquire the skills you need to interpret class requirements, prepare for a professor’s office hours, practice asking intentional questions, and develop a networking plan
Click here to see a sample schedule. Some content may vary depending on your campus, but the WSP experience is the same across all courses.
See where you could study
We partner with top colleges and universities to provide our unique programming
Overview
Experience what it’s like to be a college business major in our one-week business boot camp, as you explore business fundamentals, such as organizational management, marketing, and business ethics. Learn to think like a manager or high-level executive as you apply concepts to solve real-life problems via case study, and practice effective communication skills. You will join a cohort of other student veterans, forging friendships and connections that will last a lifetime.
Course Structure
Business Fundamental Classes
Business fundamentals classes are lecture- and discussion-based sessions taught by business professors that replicate college-level business courses. Classes focus on topics like organizational management, business ethics, marketing, and economics.
Case Study Projects
You will complete multiple case studies throughout the week under the guidance of Case Study Leaders who are university professors or graduate students. As the week goes on, cases will progress from simple individual projects to more complex group projects.
Business Program Prep Classes
Business program prep classes consist of three discussion-based sessions: case study method, public speaking, and group dynamics. These classes, taught by WSP fellows—successful student veteran alumni of Warrior-Scholar Project—help prepare you to apply business concepts learned throughout the week.
Business Talks, Tours, and Demos
See business in action with a different campus-based activity each day. Four of the boot camp days feature a talk, demonstration, or tour with a member of the host campus community.
College Success Series
Transitioning to college can bring its own unique set of challenges for enlisted veterans. Our discussion-based College Success sessions, taught by WSP fellows, are designed to address the social and academic barriers enlisted student veterans may encounter.
Sessions include:
- Mindset: Through readings, interactive discussions, and in-class activities, participants are introduced to The Warrior-Scholar Mindset, which promotes self-awareness, purpose, knowledge seeking, and resilience
- Analytical reading and note-taking: Learn to manage a college-level reading load and read and break down complex material, as well as multiple note-taking strategies and when to use them
- Attention and time management: Explore attention and time management strategies, identify opportunities to improve focus, and apply tools to manage workload and schedule
- Identity, culture, and community: Consider the veteran and student identities in a higher education setting, compare military and college culture, and examine the vital role of the community in the transition process
- Informed consumer: Learn how to compare colleges and navigate the college application process—including determining how to apply, understanding your financial need, identifying resources, and connecting college decisions to your career plans
- Hidden curriculum: Acquire the skills you need to interpret class requirements, prepare for a professor’s office hours, practice asking intentional questions, and develop a networking plan
Click here to see a sample schedule. Some content may vary depending on your campus, but the WSP experience is the same across all courses.
See where you could study
We partner with top colleges and universities to provide our unique programming.