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!
For Winter Quarter Office Hours, click here.
Updates
spring 2023 Registration
Spring registration is open. Virtual Drop-in Sessions for veteran students are available through the Student Success Virtual Assistance webpage on:
- Virtual Drop-ins with Kanchana
- Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday: 14:00 - 16:00
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 Winter and/or Spring quarters. It informs the Veteran Services office that you plan to use your VA funding for the Winter and/or Spring 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 Spring QF, 12:00 March 1, 2023.
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.
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
Located at CC3-227
Monday - Thursday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
veteran services advising appointments & drop-ins
Virtual Appointments
- Monday & Friday: 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
- Wednesday & Thursday: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
In-person Appointments at the kodiak corner
- Tuesday & Thursday: 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
To schedule advising appointments, go to the Academic Advising webpage.
In-person drop-ins with kanchana at the kodiak corner
- Wednesday: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
virtual drop-ins with kanchana
- Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Virtual Drop-ins available through the Virtual Assistance webpage.
For Veterans Admissions or to Schedule VA Orientation, email veterans@cascadia.edu.
For additional questions, please email veterans@cascadia.edu.
Veterans Services Staff
Kanchana Kularatne
Academic Advisor - Veterans and Retention Specialist
kkularatne@cascadia.edu
Aileen Ibershof
Program Coordinator - Student Support Services
Veterans Educational Benefits School Certifying Officer
aibershof@cascadia.edu
How to Get Started as a New Veteran Student
How to Get Started for VA Admissions & Checklist for VA Education Benefits