Veterans' Academic Workshop Offered At Princeton

PRINCETON, NJ — Princeton University welcomed back the Warrior-Scholar Project, a program set on helping veterans thrive through academia. The organization recently named a Marine Corps veteran as their CEO, they said in a release.

Maura Sullivan, a former officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and Assistant Secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs, has taken over as CEO.

"The program at Princeton engages veterans at an all-too-critical transition point, addresses veterans’ misperceptions about college and builds their confidence through an intense academic reorientation," Sullivan said, according to the release.

The two-week academic boot camp and Princeton for 15 students runs June 8 to 23, the release said. Students will reside in campus housing and explore the campus through lectures in several facilities.

Thirty such veterans have passed the course in the past two years at Princeton.

“This program has completely changed my academic life,” said Brittany Allen, a Princeton WSP alumna, the release said. “I feel more prepared than I ever thought possible for university.”

"Princeton greatly values our partnership with the Warrior-Scholar Project and is pleased to be able to support such talented veterans," said Michele Minter, Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity at Princeton, the release said. “We look forward to welcoming another exceptional cohort to campus this summer”

To learn more about Warrior-Scholar Project, visit the Warrior-Scholar Project website.