WILLIAMSBURG — For the past four years, William & Mary has been working with a military nonprofit to give veterans a chance at higher education.

The Warrior-Scholar Project works with colleges and universities to bring academic boot camps to enlisted veterans and service members transitioning into college. The boot camps, which began in 2012, provide weeklong courses focused on STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — business or humanities.

Camps provide participants with college success workshops, lectures, research projects, tutoring and more. Including William & Mary, the program partnered with 19 different schools this summer, said Rebekah Bien-Aine, a Warrior-Scholar Project fellow. She said the camp’s goal is to help students learn and discover how they learn and what wo

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