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The War
During the Second World War, the United States had more than 12 million men and women in the armed forces, of whom 7.6 million were stationed abroad.
One hundred thousand men were being drafted per month to replace soldiers in the army who were killed, wounded, and injured or who were discharged for medical problems.
G.I. Bill to help to return soldiers
The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans and in creating programs to assist U.S. military veterans. President Roosevelt signed the G.I. Bill into law on June 22, 1944.
Benefits in G.I. Bill, included low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business or farm, one year of unemployment compensation, and dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college, or vocational school.
By 1956, 7.8 million veterans had used the G.I. Bill education benefits, some 2.2 million to attend colleges or universities, and an additional 5.6 million for some kind of training program.
Opportunities in Camden County for the soldiers
Camden County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Its county seat is Camden. The population of Camden during the period 1945-1950 was about 120,000 – 125,000 people.
The county was named for Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, a British judge, civil libertarian, and defender of the American cause; who started the development of Camden Town in 1791. The county was formed on March 13, 1844, from portions of Gloucester County.
Camden Trade Skill Training Place
In the 1950s, with the availability of financing through the G.I Bill 1944, a group of anti-war businessmen started an informal place of skill learning was establish to acclimatize returning military men into the trade and industry. The place of learning was informally called “Camden Trade Skill Training Place”.
Over the next decades, the interest in Camden Skill Training Place depreciated, under a cloud of dust and rubble in terms of enrolment and motivation. Many attempts were made to the restoration and extension of the charter of the independent ‘Trade Skill Training School’.
Camden Distant Learning institution
In early 2000 many efforts were committed by the aging founding fathers who reminisced about the renewal, extension, and restoration of “Camden Trade Skill Training Place” as a formal independent educational institution as the internet was fast changing the landscape of distance learning.
The late Professor Dr. Yong Chin Aun became involved in the establishment of the Camden charters in the Asia Pacific region including Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Hong Kong, and China in 2004. “Camden Trade Skill Training Place” was then incorporated as Camden University in the USA; where the primary goal was to offer online education, Recognition of Prior Learning as well as the Academic Credential Evaluation leading to a degree program plan.
Right from the start, the institution was designed to be an adult learning platform and was never intended for school leavers. Enrolment was offered to applicants with a minimum of 10 years of trade and industry-based experiential learning, work-related experience, and knowledge-based skill applications.
Camden University USA Foundation
To continue the legacy of the late Professor Dr. Yong Chin Aun and his American team of age baked educators, the institution now has a good standing and has a legal corporate existence as a non-profit Camden University USA Foundation with its international regional communications centers outside the high operating cost zones in the USA by locating to Hong Kong, Malaysia, China, and India to keep operational overheads to a barest minimum acceptable levels for a non-profit institution.
A virtual Modular Collaboration Institution
Camden University does not have a physical campus in the USA but has a virtual internet presence supported by a regional career counseling office where intending students can have a face-to-face session with Academic Advisers of CU in different countries, closest to their homes.
Continuous educational opportunities would be offered through the platform of Recognition of Prior Learning, acceptance of credit transfer from other accredited and non-accredited formal learning institutions, evaluation of prior learning through NACES® accredited member organizations.
NACES USA
NACES® is an association of independent, nongovernmental organizations which provide credential evaluation services to individuals who have completed part or all their education outside the United States. Their vision is to serve as the authority in the credential evaluation field and to guide the evolution of the profession in the ever-broadening contexts for applied comparative education in the global community.
Communications Centre
Malaysia:
Asia Pacific Application & RPL Evaluation Centre
Address:
C-4-4 Wisma Goshen Plaza Pantai, Jalan Pantai Baru, Kuala Lumpur, 59200 Malaysia
Email :
president@camdenuniversityusa.ac
vicepresident@camdenuniversityusa.ac
secretary@camdenuniversityusa.ac
admin@camdenuniversityusa.ac
United States of America:
Address:
Camden University USA Foundation
Holy Clove Lane, Dover, Kent, DE 19901, USA
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