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Readmission of Service Members

Members of the uniformed services who must leave Trident to perform their duty will be promptly readmitted to the institution without change in academic status upon their return.

Any student agreements (such as catalog rights and maximum time to degree requirements) for military students with breaks in attendance of five years or less will be validated, and there will be no additional fees for military students who are readmitted. Taking courses at other institutions during this time will not constitute a break in enrollment. Students who reenter must provide updated transcript information (if any) from all other institutions attended during the time of deferment or break in enrollment from Trident (including CLEP, JST, etc.).

  • Service members will be promptly readmitted (in the next available session following student notification of intent to reenroll) with the same academic status they had prior to their deferred status.
  • Service members will be entitled to the rights and benefits they had prior to their deferred status.
  • Service members will be readmitted to the same program unless they request or agree to be admitted to another program. (If the original program is no longer offered, the service member will be admitted to the most similar program.)
  • For the first year, service members will be readmitted under the same tuition charged when they entered deferred status unless their military benefits will pay tuition increases (if any). However, the tuition will never be more than the institution is charging other students.
  • If a military student is not prepared to resume the program where he or she left off or is unable to complete the program, the institution must make reasonable efforts0F2 (at no additional cost to the student) to enable the service member to resume or complete the program. Such help may include, but is not limited to, providing refresher courses.
  • To be eligible for readmission, a service member must:
    • Provide notice of absence for service.
    • Provide notice of the intent to return to Trident. Please see Department of Education guidelines for clarification of the aforementioned criteria.
    • Cumulative length of absences cannot exceed five years.

Denial of Readmission

If Trident determines that there are no reasonable efforts to be taken to prepare the service member to resume or complete the program, readmission may be denied. Please see Department of Education guidelines for clarification of the aforementioned criteria.

Termination of Readmission Eligibility

A service member’s eligibility for readmission terminates upon the occurrence of:

  • A dishonorable or bad conduct discharge.
  • A dismissal of a commissioned officer permitted under Section 1161(a) of Title 10 USC by sentence of a general court-martial, in commutation of a sentence of a general court-martial, or, in time of war, by order of the President.
  • A dropping of a commissioned officer from the rolls pursuant to Section 1161(b), Title 10 USC.
  • Absence without authority for at least three months, separation by reason of a sentence to confinement adjudged by a court-martial, or a sentence to confinement in a federal or state penitentiary or correctional institution.

2Reasonable efforts are actions that do not place an undue hardship on the institution. An undue hardship exists if an action requires significant difficulty or expense when considered in light of the overall financial resources of the institution and the impact otherwise of such action on the operation of the institution.