Veteran Resource Center

How to Contact Us

Veteran Resource staff are available to assist you on Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. If you'd like to schedule an appointment, please email veterans@everettcc.edu or call us at 425-388-9277.  You may email the Veteran Resource Center at veterans@everettcc.edu, Please allow 2 - 3 business days for a response. 

Thinking about dropping a class or wondering how an Incomplete ("I") grade could impact you? Read this important information regarding changes to your enrollment. 

Are you planning on taking classes next Spring quarter 2025? (New and Returning Students)

If so, and you’d like to certify your benefits, please submit the VA Quarterly Form  by NLT 11:59 PM, April 7, 2025. Submitting this form will place a tuition hold on your account, ensuring you won’t be dropped from your classes while waiting for your VA benefits to be processed. Please note that submissions received after this deadline may cause delays in payment to the college through your VA benefits.

New Students Using Veteran Benefits

If you're a new student planning to use VA benefits, please email us at Veterans@everettcc.edu. Be sure to include the Chapter of benefits you're inquiring about, so a VRC staff member can review the required documents, policies, and procedures with you.

We're here to help make your start at EvCC as smooth as possible!

Receiving Your VA Benefits

Please review and submit the following online form to our office as a first step to receiving your benefits: Receiving Your VA Benefits: Requirements, Policies, and Procedures.

Post-9/11 GI Bill® students attending IHL facilities who receive Monthly Housing Allowance (MHA) and/or kicker payments are required to verify enrollment at the end of each month. This applies to IHL students with terms starting on or after December 17, 2021. Please click here for more information: IHL Process 

Activating Benefits

A representative is available to assist veterans and activate all veterans' educational benefits. A complete description of the educational benefits available to veteran (and their dependents if applicable) can be obtained from the Department of Veterans Affairs website. External Site Link

Tuition Assistance (TA) Service members should first talk with their command education officer to establish eligibility.  All veterans and active members are encouraged to apply for financial aid.  Provide a certified copy of the veteran's DD-214 member 4 to the Veterans Office.

Educational benefits are also available to eligible members of the National Guard and selected reserves. A Notice of Basic Eligibility (or NOBE) needs to be requested from your unit and brought to the Veteran Resource Center to start the application process.

Important: It is the responsibility of the veteran or dependent receiving benefits to ensure that the veteran's coordinator receives a copy of their class schedule each quarter. Changes in the schedule must also be reported to the coordinator. Failure to do so may result in an overpayment, which must be repaid to the government.

EvCC, The Affordable Option!

Listed here is the cost to attend Everett Community College. Please contact us if you have questions.

Need Books?

The Veteran Resource Center may be able to help you.  Qualifying veterans, please email us at veterans@everettcc.edu.

New Student planning to use Military Tuition Assistance

Step 1: Start the Military Tuition Assistance application with your education service office (ESO) from your branch of service, and get approval from your command. For more information, visit:

Step 2: Apply for Admission with EvCC

More information about Academic Credit for Prior Learning and Transfer Credit Agreements can be found online. 

Step 3: Apply for financial aid and scholarships. Military connected students can use financial aid and scholarships while using military Tuition Assistance education benefits.

Step 5: Build your Tuition Assistance approved degree plan and enroll in classes

  • Tuition Assistance benefits require an approved degree plan.
  • Entry Advisors can help you build your branch approved degree plan, and enroll in classes while you wait to be assigned a Program Advisor.

Step 6: Submit your degree plan and class information using your Tuition Assistance branch portal.

Step 7: Submit your Tuition Assistance signed Authorization to Everett Community College's Accounts Receivable by emailing EvCCAR@everettcc.edu. 

Military Tuition Assistance Refund Schedule

The college will return unearned Military Tuition Assistance funds on a proportional basis through the 60 percent completion point of the enrollment period for which the funds were provided. Unearned funds are calculated based upon the date a student stops attending.
In instances when a service member stops attending due to a military service obligation, the College will work with the affected service member to identify solutions that will not result in a student debt for the returned portion.

The college will return unearned Military Tuition Assistance funds back to the Department of Defense (DOD), not to the student when, prior to completing greater than 60% of the enrollment period, student stops attending regardless of the reason for drop/withdrawal. The college will return funds based on the following schedule:
100% refund if the student drops/withdraws before completing 10% of the term
50% refund if the student drops/withdraws after completing 10% but less than 20% of the term
10% refund if the student drops/withdraws after completing 20% but less than 60% of the term
 
Exceptions to this general refund policy may be granted by the Vice President of Student Services or designee for medical reasons, or if the student is called to military service. 

8-Week Course Withdrawal Submitted:
• before or during week 1 = 100% return 
• during week 2 - 3 = 50% return 
• during weeks 4 -6 = 10% return 
• during weeks 7-8 = no return

10-Week Course Withdrawal Submitted:
• before or during week 1 = 100% return 
• during week 2 - 3 = 50% return 
• during weeks 4 – 6 = 10% return 
•  during weeks 6 - 8 = no return

Exceptions to this general refund policy may be granted for medical reasons, or if the student is called to military service. Students should submit a Petition for Refunds and Policy Exceptions.

Veterans Work-Study Program

What Type of Work Can I Do?

If you participate in the VA work-study program, your job will be related to VA services. Here are some examples of acceptable work:

  • Preparation, processing, maintaining, and organizing Veteran-related files
  • SCO view/assist in Enrollment Manager
  • Answering phones
  • Assisting with greetings and Kiosk check-in
  • Assisting veteran students with lounge and computer use
  • Tasks that require 100% performance of VA-related activities

Am I Eligible?

To qualify, you need to:

  • Be enrolled at least three-quarters of the time and using GI Bill® Veterans benefits at EvCC.

Work Study Salary

  • Pay Rate: The minimum wage in Everett.
  • Payment Schedule: You’ll submit timecards for every 50 hours worked or every two weeks. You can work up to 25 hours per week each quarter, and these earnings are tax-exempt.

How Do I Get Started?

  1. Obtain your Enrollment Certification.
  2. Email your resume to our VRC at veterans@everettcc.edu.

Veteran Readmission Process

Veteran students who are required to leave their academic studies due to active military service do not need to reapply to the College should they return within 12 months of their last quarter of attendance.  The veteran student should, if possible, contact their instructor(s) to request a withdrawal, grade, or an incomplete.  If unable to reach the instructor(s), Enrollment Services will in turn notify the instructor(s).

When returning to the College after more than 12 months, the veteran student should re-apply online to update their ctcLink account.  At this point, the veteran student should work with an academic advisor to help in attaining their program requirements.  If gone for more than one year, special considerations will be made to assist the veteran student to graduate with their selected program.

Readmission of Service Members

According to Chapter 3 of Volume 2 of the Federal Student Aid Handbook:

A school must promptly readmit a service member with the same academic status they had when last attending the school or accepted for admission to the school. This requirement applies to any student who cannot attend school due to military service. Please reference the Frequently Asked Questions: Institutional Readmission Requirements for Servicemembers guidance available on the U.S. Department of Education’s website.

The student must notify the school of their military service and intention to return to school as follows:

  • Notification of military service. The student (or an appropriate officer of the armed forces or official of the Department of Defense) must give oral or written notice of such service to the school as far in advance as is reasonable under the circumstances. This notice does not have to indicate whether the student intends to return to the school and may not be subject to any rule of timeliness. (Timeliness must be determined by the facts in each case.) Alternatively, at the time of readmission, the student may submit an attestation of military service that necessitated their absence from school. No notice is required if precluded by military necessity, such as service in operations that are classified or would be compromised by such notice. Notification of intent to return to school. The student must also give oral or written notice of her intent to return to the school within three years after the completion of the period of service. A student who is hospitalized or convalescing due to an illness or injury incurred or aggravated during the performance of service must notify the school within two years after the end of the period needed for recovery from the illness or injury. A student who fails to apply for readmission within these periods does not automatically forfeit eligibility for readmission but is subject to the school’s established leave of absence policy and general practices.

A school must designate one or more offices that a student may contact to provide notification of service and notification of intent to return. The school may not require that these notices follow a particular format. At Everett Community College, service members may contact the Veteran Resource Center by email Veterans@everettcc.edu.

The school must promptly readmit the student into the next class or classes in the program beginning after they provides notice of intent to reenroll, unless they requests a later date or unusual circumstances require the school to admit them at a later date. This requirement supersedes state law—for example, a school must readmit a qualifying service member to the next class even if that class is at the maximum enrollment level set by the state. The school must admit the student with the same academic status, which means

  • to the same program to which the student was last admitted or, if that exact program is no longer offered, the program that is most similar to that program, unless she chooses a different program;
  • at the same enrollment status, unless the student wants to enroll at a different enrollment status;
  • with the same number of credit hours or clock hours previously completed, unless the student is readmitted to a different program to which the completed credit hours or clock hours are not transferable, and
  • with the same academic standing (e.g., with the same satisfactory academic progress status) the student previously had.

If the student is readmitted to the same program, for the first academic year in which they returns, the school must assess the tuition and fee charges that they were or would have been assessed for the academic year during which they left the school. However, if their veterans education benefits or other service member education benefits will pay the higher tuition and fee charges that other students in the program are paying for the year, the school may assess those charges to the student as well. If the student is admitted to a different program, and for subsequent academic years for a student admitted to the same program, the school must assess no more than the tuition and fee charges that other students in the program are assessed for that academic year. The cumulative length of the absence and of all previous absences from the school for military service may not exceed five years. Only the time the student spends actually performing service is counted. See the following additional information section for more about cumulative length of absence.

US Department of Veterans Affairs

You may also contact the Department of Veterans Affairs at the following:

Education information 888-442-4551
Other VA information 800-827-1000
VA monthly certification 827-823-2378
Website http://www.benefits.va.gov/gibill/ External Site Link

 

 

‘‘GI Bill® is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). More information about education benefits offered by VA is available at the official U.S. government Web site at https://www.benefits.va.gov/gibill".