Perhaps it’s better in other states, but in North Carolina, it is difficult for men and women who have served in the military to get college credits for what they’ve learned.

That’s the point made by Dan Way in today’s Martin Center article.

He writes, “Lawmakers and veterans advocates want to know why higher-education officials have failed for nearly a decade to fulfill the requirements of Senate Bill 761, which mandates a uniform system to award college credits for military training and experience. The General Assembly passed, and Gov. Pat McCrory signed, the law, dubbed Credit for Military Training, in 2014. But it wasn’t until May 26 of this year that Peter Hans, the fourth UNC System president since the law passed, finally issued a regulation directing all 16 universities to comply with its provisions.”

Evidently, getting around to complying with the law wasn’t a high priority with the state’s higher-education leaders. At least, the UNC system is now moving toward compliance, but the state’s community-college system continues to drag its heels. And, as Way explains, it’s important for both systems to work together on this: “It is crucial for the two higher-education systems to have articulation agreements for transferring military-based academic credits between the systems, because many students first enroll in community colleges to complete basic courses.”

Maybe the creation of a smooth system for military college credits is now in the works, but one suspects that this is not something that excites the mostly “woke” minions.