Cascadia Welcomes Our Veterans!
Veterans Benefits
Cascadia College was named as a military friendly school 2016 by G.I. Jobs Magazine. This honor puts Cascadia in the top 15% of colleges, universities, and trade schools nationwide that deliver the best experience for military students. Welcome!
Updates
Summer and Fall 2022 Registration
Summer and Fall registration begins 05/02/2022, Veteran students are invited to begin registering on Monday, May 2nd starting at 06:00. There will be three drop-in advising sessions:
You can find the links on Cascadia’s Virtual Student Services page under Veterans Services. Please register ASAP to ensure that you get into the classes that you need. Please remember that the VA only covers classes needed for your Cascadia degree.
Quarterly Forms
The Quarterly Form (QF) can be accessed online and is required for any Veteran or dependent who wishes to use their benefits for the Summer/Fall quarters. It informs the Veteran Services office that you plan to use your VA funding for the Summer and/or Fall quarters. Please submit separate QF for each quarter and by the dates listed below to prevent any delay in processing your certification. Delay in certification means delays in receiving eligible benefits including MHA or textbook allowances. Forms submitted after that date will be processed as received.
- Priority deadline for Summer QF 12:00 June 1, 2022.
- Priority deadline for Fall QF, 12:00 August 31, 2022.
How to Verify Your Enrollment
We encourage students to opt into text messaging, which is a simple, quick option for verifying monthly enrollment and ensuring you receive MHA payments uninterrupted. All impacted students with a US mobile phone number on file should receive an opt-in text message after being enrolled in your courses. You must respond to this text within 14 days. After opting in, you can simply reply to a VA text message each month to verify your enrollment. If you opt out of text message verification or do not respond to the opt-in text, you will be automatically enrolled in email verification with the email address on file with the VA.
For more information, refer to the Enrollment Verification webpage where many helpful resources are highlighted, including Frequently Asked Questions
Last Quarter Rounding Out to be Phased Out Summer 2021
Rounding Out will be phased out for terms beginning on or after August 1, 2021. Rounding out refers to when a VA student could round out a schedule with non-required courses to bring his/her course load up to a full-time schedule in his/her last term only. Previously this process allowed students to continue to receive benefits at the full-time rate in their last term of enrollment, even though fewer credits are required to complete the program. Summer Quarter will be the last quarter where students using their VA benefits can round out. Please email veterans@cascadia.edu if you have questions.
COVID-19 Notice
In this time of uncertainty related to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of our student veterans have reached out with concerns or questions about whether and to what degree their benefits will continue while classes are limited to online modalities. Please be assured that courses duly registered * (Read the asterisk below – It is critically important information) by student veterans will be certified by the College and honored by the Veterans’ Administration, including the award of regular MHA (BAH) on the same terms as normal brick-and-mortar attendances through December 21, 2021 or until campus operations resume as normal.
As a reminder, on December 21, 2021, President Biden signed legislation that extends the covered period for the special COVID-19 rules to June 1, 2022.
Additional guidance will be forthcoming.
Please see the VA’s COVID-19 FAQs webpage for more details.
*65% of winter courses at Cascadia will be offered in-person and the remainder of winter courses are online. However, there remains a distinction between course sections that would have been offered online regardless (OL and IOL section codes) and courses that have been moved online due to COVID-19 (most all other section codes). In order for your MHA to work out the way you want, it is imperative that you register for at least one course of the latter type. If you need clarification on this point, please email veterans@cascadia.edu.
Attendance & Participation While Awaiting VA Tuition & Fee Payments
Section 103, PL 115-407
In accordance with Title 38 US Code 3679 subsection (e), Cascadia College adopts the following additional provisions for any students using U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Post 9/11 G.I. Bill® (Ch. 33) or Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Ch. 31) benefits, while payment to the institution is pending from the VA. Cascadia College will not:
- Prevent the student's enrollment;
- Assess a late penalty to;
- Require student secure alternative or additional funding;
- Deny their access to any resources, access to classes, libraries or other institutional facilities available to other students who have satisfied their tuition and fee bills to the institution.
However, to qualify for this provision, such students may be required to:
- Produce the Certificate of Eligibility by the first day of class;
- Produce written request to be certified;
- Provide additional information needed to properly certify the enrollment as described in other institutional policies.
Cascadia Services for Veterans
Please refer to this section for a listing of necessary forms, if you wish to take advantage of the tuition waiver for veterans or to set up and use your VA Educational Benefits at Cascadia. All new veterans wishing to utilize their VA Educational Benefits must attend a VA Orientation.
Veterans Forms and General Information
Veterans Orientation
All new students wishing to utilize VA educational benefits must attend the VA Orientation.
Please email veterans@cascadia.edu to schedule an appointment.
The VA Orientation will be a one on one appointment with the VA Certifying Official/Academic
Advisor lasting one hour and includes class selection for the upcoming quarter.
Office Information
Veterans Resource Center is relocating to another location on campus. We are hoping to open during Spring 2022. More news will be share in the coming months.
Spring 2022 Veteran Services Update: March 28th - June 10th
- Virtual Appointments available on:
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday between the hours of 9am - 4pm
- Wednesday between the hours of 9am - 2pm
- Virtual Assistance Drop-in available on Wednesday from 2pm-4pm at the Virtual Assistance webpage.
- For advising appointments, fill out the Appointment Request Form on the Academic Advising webpage.
- For additional questions, please email veterans@cascadia.edu.
Veterans Admissions or to Schedule VA Orientation
veterans@cascadia.edu
Kanchana Kularatne
kkularatne@cascadia.edu
Academic Advisor - Veterans and Retention Specialist
Aileen Ibershof
aibershof@cascadia.edu
Program Coordinator - Student Support Services
Veterans Educational Benefits
School Certifying Officer
How to Get Started for VA Admissions & Checklist for VA Education Benefits