1. Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges
SOC Degree Network Student Agreements:
SOCAD Student Agreement
Overview and GoArmyEd
A SOCAD Training Module
2013

2. SOC DNS Student Agreements (SOCAD Student Agreements)
Contract for Degree
Counseling Tool
Recognized across the Services
In many ways, the Student Agreement is at the center of the DNS process .This counseling tool, recognized across the Services is also a contract for degree between the student and the institution.
The traditional SOCAD Student Agreement is a paper document; the form can be down-loaded from the SOCAD Web site
The SOCAD Student Agreement is also embedded in GoArmyEd

3. The SOCAD Student Agreement
The SOCAD Student Agreement serves as a “contract for degree” between the college and the student
The SOCAD Student Agreement should identify the degree, degree requirements, SOC Course Category Codes that apply
The SOCAD Student Agreement should reflect a formal evaluation of prior learning and a clear statement of remaining degree requirements
Credit awarded for MOS or Service School, from testing, and from transfer from other colleges should be reflected on the SOCAD Student Agreement
The SOCAD Student Agreement should be written when the eligible student has completed two or three courses toward the degree after selecting the degree
Completing SOCAD Student Agreements for eligible students is an important responsibility of a college’s participation in SOCAD;; directions can be found in Chapter 4 of the SOC DNS Handbooks and on the SOC Web site

4. Preparing the Student Agreement
Prepared by the SOCAD college for all military students seeking undergraduate degrees
The college writes Student Agreements for all Handbook-listed degrees
Core college may write “open network” Student Agreements
Who should receive a Student Agreement?
All active-duty servicemembers
Army National Guard, Reservists (active-duty and not)
Spouses and college-aged children of servicemembers (active or reserve
component)
A SOCAD college can write a Student Agreement for military students
in other services
SOCAD schools that are not LOI schools will create all of their SOCAD Student Agreements in the traditional manner; SOCAD colleges that are LOI schools may create electronic Student Agreements through GoArmyEd for degrees that are fully-developed in GoArmyEd and SOCAD Student Agreements for all other degrees

5. Preparing the Student Agreement (cont)
How to complete the traditional Student Agreement
Chapter 4 of the DNS-2 or DNS-4 Handbook includes detailed instructions
Instructions are also available on the SOCAD Web site
The form itself can be down-loaded from the SOCAD Web site
GoArmyEd electronic SOCAD Student Agreements
If the student has an account in GoArmyEd (currently: active-duty Soldiers and Reservists), either a traditional SOCAD Student Agreement or an electronic SOCAD Student Agreement will be required by the GoArmyEd system
If the degree being sought is fully-developed within the GoArmyEd portal, the SOCAD college uses Student Agreement interface procedures for creating the SOCAD Student Agreement electronically
The next several slides show how SOCAD Student Agreements are processed
LOI colleges with questions about their SOCAD Student Agreements should discuss these issues with their Academic Liaison
The SOCAD Project Director is also available to discuss any SOCAD Student Agreement issue or problem

6. Student Agreements and GoArmyEd
For SOCAD schools that are not LOI colleges:
Soldier scans the Student
Agreement into his or her
GoArmyEd e-file
College completes appropriate Student Agreement on traditional (“paper”) SOCAD Student Agreement form
The ESO approves the
e-filed Student Agreement
College sends copy to SOC

7. Student Agreements and GoArmyEd
For SOCAD schools that are LOI colleges and if the degree is fully developed within GoArmyEd:
ESO approves degree when the Soldier selects it within GoArmyEd
The Student Agreement
is generated and recorded
within GoArmyEd
College creates the Student Agreement within GoArmyEd using the Student Agreement interface
The GoArmyEd system sends a copy of the electronically generated Student Agreement to SOC

8. Student Agreements and GoArmyEd
For SOCAD schools that are LOI college and if degree is not fully-developed in the GoArmyEd portal (drop-down or not listed)
College completes appropriate Student Agreement on the traditional (“paper”) SOCAD Student Agreement ” form
Soldier scans the Student
Agreement into his or her
GoArmyEd e-file
The ESO approves the
e-filed Student Agreement
College sends copy to SOC

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