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A gunnery sergeant\u2019s experience in the Palomar College military leadership program illustrates its potential to engage Marines in higher education while on active duty.<\/p>\n

CAMP PENDLETON \u2014 After 18 years and six tours with the Marine Corps, Gunnery Sgt. Ricardo Candelario has ample experience in uniform.<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t until Palomar College introduced its Military Leadership (MIL) Apprenticeship program at Camp Pendleton that he began considering higher education as a key to his future, in the Corps and afterward.<\/p>\n

Now Candelario, 35, says he\u2019s on track to complete his associate degree and pursue his bachelor\u2019s\u2014even though the thought of college wasn\u2019t previously on his radar.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel grateful that the college is making this happen,\u201d he told Palomar News. \u201cI was not going to do college\u2014college was not going to be something I pursued. But then I got these 12 credits for prior learning and now I have 24 credits toward an associate degree\u2014that really jump-started me and made me want to do more. Now I want to keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n

Originally from Long Island, New York, Candelario enlisted in September 2003, six months after the invasion of Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He deployed twice to Iraq, once to Kuwait, and once to Africa, before settling into a leadership position at the Staff NCO Academy, where he thrived and was promoted to Staff NCO In Charge of the U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant School\u2014a training center for enlisted Marines pursuing leadership in the Corps.<\/p>\n

During his time there, he was approached by Palomar College Professor Candace Rose and Marine Corps University Academics Officer Melissa Balcombe, who were in the process of launching an academic program to accredit the Sergeant School and provide college credits to Marines in leadership training.<\/p>\n

That program, now known as MIL Apprenticeship, originated when leaders from Palomar and Marine Corps University met in May 2019 to discuss the concept of granting Marines college credit for the education they receive in Sergeant School.<\/p>\n

MIL Apprenticeship was then formally initiated as a Palomar program through a collaboration between Interim Superintendent\/President Dr. Jack Kahn, then serving as the Assistant Superintendent\/Vice President for Instruction at Palomar, and Troy Morton, Associate Dean of Academics at the College of Enlisted Military Education, Marine Corps University. Palomar’s Associate Dean of Workforce Development and Extended Studies, Nichol Roe, implemented the concept as an apprenticeship program, a key step in the effort to serve active-duty Marines and launch the program in fall 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The program currently serves Marines enrolled in the Sergeant School at Camp Pendleton and Twentynine Palms.<\/p>\n

\u201cMarines take their training seriously, and Palomar College is proud to come alongside these leaders-in-training to make sure they also receive academic credit for their hard work,\u201d said Dr. Jack Kahn.<\/p>\n

Candelario said he remembers going line by line through the Sergeant School curriculum and realizing what a profound benefit it would be to enlisted Marines to receive college credit for work they were already doing.<\/p>\n

And work they had already done.<\/p>\n

Through \u201cCredit for Prior Learning,\u201d which is another element of the MIL Apprenticeship program, Candelario received 12 Palomar College credits for the training he received during his trip through Sergeant School three years ago.<\/p>\n

Last fall, Candelario enrolled in Palomar\u2019s MIL 199 class, logged 2,000 on-the-job training hours, and received six credits and a Certificate of Achievement in Military Leadership.<\/p>\n

Combined with 12 credits for prior learning, and two English classes he took previously at the college\u2019s Camp Pendleton Education Center, he now has 24 credits and is in pursuit of his associate degree through Palomar.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough the journeyman\u2019s program, I got motivated and am now working toward an associate degree with an emphasis on Military Leadership,\u201d said Candelario. \u201cThen I plan to transfer and pursue a bachelor\u2019s in Organizational Leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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